Psychologists agree that dreaming is essential to our mental well-being. Artists have always been intuitively aware of this and the above lines are one illustration of this awareness. Composers as well as painters and writers have frequently drawn upon the fantastical imagery of dreams and The World Again is an attempt to convey some of the power of this imagery in music.The work is cast in t…

'Acquainted with Night' is a cycle of six songs for alto and strings harp and timpani. The texts are all concerned with different aspects of night. The first song ‘Lullaby’ to a poem by Beaumont and Fletcher seeks to evokethe ‘care-charming’ powers of sleep. The second a setting of Robert Frost’s ‘Acquainted with the night’ is concerned with the lonely world of a strange ci…