Bye Bye Blackbird

For SATB choir with Piano accompaniment.'In 2000 the poet Tony Harrison to cheer me up during a troubled period of my life sent me a copy of Goethe?s poem. I began to sketch music for it then and finished it in 2003. It is set for mixed chorus and strings. A winding forlorn cello figure like a lost soul leads to a softer tender violin theme that evokes the healing power of music to the tro…