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- Sally Beamish
Christmas Light (2020)
- Peters Edition Limited (World)
- SATB; glock
- SATB
- 3 min
- Betty McKellar
- English
Programme Note
I made this setting for SATB and glockenspiel to celebrate Betty McKellar’s 90th birthday.
I first discovered her work in the nineties, and set her poem Cramasie Threid for soprano and cello. I then took the poem Sangsters as the starting point for a concerto for orchestra which was premiered by the Swedish Chamber Orchestra in 2002.
This short piece is a tribute to Betty’s creativity, warmth and optimism.
