Peter Maxwell Davies

Songs of Hoy

Year: 1982
Duration: 25'
Movements: I. Introduction; II. Old Widow Grumble (action song); III. Islander's Home; IV. Our Family (action song); V. Long Hope (for instruments only); VI. Don't Look Now (action song); VII. Rackwick Bay; VIII. Home-Time
Text/Libretto: Peter Maxwell Davies
Premiere: Stromness, Orkney, Academy Hall, 21 June 1982: pupils of North Walls Primary School, Hoy, Glenys Hughes (cond.)
Publisher: Chester Music and to Novello & Co. Ltd.
Genre: Chorus and Instruments with Guitar
Instrumentation:
(Explanation)
children's chorus - piano, descant recorders, guitar (optional), untuned percussion, tuned percussion
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