I'm feeling chuffed today having just finished my new work for Daventry Choral Society for their 25th Anniversary Concert. It's the setting of a wonderful poem by Alfred Noyes called The Dane Tree.
Alfred Noyes wrote the poem especially to celebrate the opening in 1925 of, what was at the time, the largest broadcasting station in the world, and the first long-wave station by the BBC. As one author wrote "The poem stresses the strange and compelling contrast between ancient and modern on Dane Tree Hill, a site of historic importance, one of the oldest military encampments, and a place mentioned in Shakespeare's Henry VI."
The poem is very English and full of brooding, dark imagery which I hope I've conveyed by adding baritone solo to the choir and strings! Really looking forward to the premiere next April!
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