Songs of Hoy
Year
1982
Genre
Chorus and Guitar
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
Instrumentation
children's chorus - piano, descant recorders, guitar (optional), untuned percussion, tuned percussion
Text / Libretto
Peter Maxwell Davies
Premiere
Stromness, Orkney, Academy Hall, 21 June 1982: pupils of North Walls Primary School, Hoy, Glenys Hughes (cond.)
Publisher
Source
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