Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening [2021] by Anna Disley-Simpson
Words by Robert Frost

Premiered and recorded on 10/12/21 by the Huddersfield Choral Society and Ellie Slorach @ Huddersfield Town Hall

Whose woods these are I think I know.   
His house is in the village though;   
He will not see me stopping here   
To watch his woods fill up with snow.   

My little horse must think it queer   
To stop without a farmhouse near   
Between the woods and frozen lake   
The darkest evening of the year.   

He gives his harness bells a shake   
To ask if there is some mistake.   
The only other sound’s the sweep   
Of easy wind and downy flake.   

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,   
But I have promises to keep,   
And miles to go before I sleep,   
And miles to go before I sleep.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Taken from MICHAELBRAILEY's solo debut 'Pericardial.'
Release date = December 15th, 2014.

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Crackers
by Andrew Furlow with juice vocal ensemble
	
A vocal piece to be performed around the Christmas Day dinner table, for any number of performers/diners. Alternatively, a concert performance may be in a line.

NB Crackers must contain a toy, paper hat and a joke.

o	Each performer/diner has a cracker. Nominate a performer to start. 
o	Performer 1 picks up their cracker and turns to the person on their left (Performer 2) and pulls it. They removed the contents of the larger part (even if they have not officially won it).
o	Performer 1 examines and plays briefly with their toy. 
o	Performer 1 unwraps and dons their paper hat, making the most of the rustling sounds.
o	Performer 1 sings the question from their cracker joke on any note (but only one note). They continue to do this, leaving a short gap in between each time they sing the question. 
o	Once Performer 1 has begun singing their question, Performer 2 picks up their cracker and turns to the person on their left and pulls it. They should perform the same actions with toy, hat and joke, and should choose a different note on which to sing their joke’s question.
o	This continues until all performers have pulled their crackers and are singing.
o	The final performer should sing their joke question three times (suggestion: the final performer may select a very high or very low note to be better distinguished), and then say the answer emphatically. At this point all performers stop singing. The person on the right of the final performer emphatically says their joke’s answer immediately afterwards, followed by the next person on the right, until it reaches Performer 1.
o	Once Performer 1 has said their joke’s answer, leave a short pause, before all performers laugh. The laughs should be varied, dramatic and ingenuine, and should cease abruptly.

Premiered at St Leonard’s Church, Shoreditch, London on December 1st, 2015, as part of Juice Vocal Ensemble’s Snow Queens programme launch concert. 



Crackers

Auclair Remix
Mastered by John Davis at Metropolis

Surround x Auclair (Remix)

A collection of live recordings; 12 new winter works selected for ORA's 2019 Christmas Gift project, offering 12 composers the opportunity to have their works recorded for free.

Christmas Eve- Anna Disley-Simpson

t’s easy being here with you 
It’s easy being here with you 

and I know I know I know mmmmm
it's it’s easy being here with you 

Take me there 
I want you to 
Counting down the days till I’m with you 
Dream catch me 
Hold my breath 
Time will play with my thoughts 
I won’t rest 


It’s easy being here with you 
It’s easy being here with you 

and I know I know I know  
it's it’s easy being here with you 


Take me there 
I want you to 
Counting down the days till I’m with you 
Dream catch me 
Hold my breath 
Time will play with my thoughts 
I won’t rest

it's easy (demo)

A delicate and luminescent lullaby, this piece anthropomorphises the moon into a shimmering maternal figure who provides a blanket of comfort over the world at night time.

Piano: Luke Holman
Soprano: Anna Disley-Simpson

Artwork: Anna Disley-Simpson

Recorded remotely on 12.05.2020

M0ther M00n

composer / singer / teacher / 

new song-cycle coming to the aldeburgh festival june 2024

guildhall opera-maker 2022-23 'lost property'

former nycgb young composer, former composer in resi with london oriana choir, singer and wannabe popstar, rncm and guildhall grad, purcell and nyogb alumna, bbc young composer winner 2014

works written for the st martin's voices, the piatti quartet, standard issue, the listening project, bbc singers, london oriana choir, hallé youth choir, the european union chamber orchestra, juice vocal ensemble, majker, rncm brand new orchestra, rncm chamber choir, the camerata players, kantos chamber choir, the ora singers, the larisa trio, members of the bbcso, the national youth orchestra, music off canvas, the manchester singers, no dice collective, the london oriana choir, huddersfield choral society, the hermes experiment, the gesualdo six, the consone quartet, psappha 

email me: adisleysimpson@gmail.com

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

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