The 5th instalment of the Legacy series contains works which are not published and with the exception of Corona di Sonetti are unlikely to be performed. The solo piano piece Corona di Sonett was commissioned by Clare Hammond who premiered a substantial sequence of the sections at the Aldeburgh Festival in 2022 (a film of this can be seen on Clare's YouTube channel at: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUdB4LgJkuE&list=LL&index=109
La Vita Nuova is a work in 9 movements based on Dante's early work that charts the course of his relationship with Beatrice from their first meeting up to her death. Russian Jerusalem is an opera in 3 Acts based on the book by Elaine Feinstein, exploring the repressive and often brutal relationship between the Soviet state and its artists and writers. Broken Forms is an orchestral piece which is dedicated to the memory of my parents.

Legacy 5

This is the first section of a piece for tenor and large ensemble, drawn from Dante's La Vita Nuova. In this passage, Dante recounts his first meeting with Beatrice and declares the beginning of a New Life.

I	i	Here begins the New Life.
	ii	Instrumental
	iii	The woman whom my mind beholds in glory first appeared before my eyes, called 
		Beatrice by many.
	iv	Instrumental
	v	From then on I say that Love ruled over my soul.

LA VITA NUOVA I

In this second section from La Vita Nuova, Dante describes Beatrice's greeting as the height of bliss, and thinking of her while falling asleep, he experiences a marvelous vision.

II	vi	Instrumental
vii	And passing in the street, she greeted me with such courtesy that it seemed to me to be the height of bliss.
viii	Instrumental
ix	And thinking of her, I fell asleep, and there appeared to me a marvellous vision.
x	Instrumental

LA VITA NUOVA II

In the 3rd section of La Vita Nuova, Dante sends a sonnet to his friends in which he describes a dream in which he had a vision of Love holding his beloved and feeding to her Dante's heart. He is disturbed by the dream and asks his friends for their interpretation of its meaning.

III	xi	To every captive soul and gentle lover
		Into whose sight this present rhyme may chance,
		That, writing back, each may expound its sense,
		Greetings in Love, who is their Lord, I offer.
		Already of those hours a third was over
		Wherein all stars display their radiance,
		When lo! Love stood before me in my trance:
		Recalling what he was fills me with horror.
		Joyful Love seemed to me and in his keeping
		He held my heart; and in his arms there lay
		My lady in a mantle wrapped, and sleeping.
		Then he awoke her and, her fear not heeding,
		My burning heart fed to her reverently.
		Then he departed from my vision, weeping.

LA VITA NUOVA III

In the 4th section of La Vita Nuova, Dante continues to dwell on the miraculous nature of Beatrice's salutation when they meet. However, he becomes aware of the fact that Love has both a positive and a negative aspect, which causes him grief. He resolves to devote his writing to praise of Beatrice, 'this most gracious being'.

IV	xii	I say that whenever and wherever she appeared, in the hope of receiving her
		miraculous salutation I felt I had not an enemy in the world.
	xiii	All thoughts within my mind discourse of Love
		And have among them great diversity:
		One makes me long for Love’s authority,
		Another its unreason seeks to prove,
		Then sweetness, as of hope, I’m conscious of.
		Another makes me weep incessantly.
	xiv	All thoughts of what befalls me die away,
		Fair jewel, when to see you I draw nigh:
		When I am close to you I hear Love say:
		‘If you fear Death, now is the time to fly!’
	xv	And so I decided to take as the theme of my writing from then on whatever was
		praise of this most gracious being.

LA VITA NUOVA IV

Another short jam (or marmalade) session
Photo by Rob Wicks on Unsplash

GeoShred Marmalade

The second half of Corona di Sonetti, performed by Clare Hammond at Folkestone New Music, 23 February 2023. Sections 9 to 15 are: Mazurka, Etude, Ballade, Bagatelle, Winter Pastoral, Capriccio and Chorale.

Corona di Sonetti (9 - 15)

The first half of Corona di Sonetti, performed by Clare Hammond at Folkestone New Music on 23 February 2023. Sections 1 to 8 are: Prelude, Toccata, Ciaccona, Nocturne, Scherzo, Intermezzo, Fantasia and Elegy.

Corona di Sonetti (1 - 8)

Mostly just me playing about, but there's a bit of Charlie Villiers' guitar in there too, notably giving the outro a little touch of class.

~Lyrics~
We were sitting in your back garden 
Clouds were drifting across the sky 
You turned to me and smiled
I think you had a tear in your eye
And then taking my hand you whispered,
“When I get this high,
I sometimes get the feeling I might be just about to die!”

Then with a shrug of your shoulders 
You told us about the butterflies
That there’s no way of them knowing
That their wings look like eyes
And if you consider the caterpillar
It’ll come as no surprise
Just how very little we all know about our lives

[Chorus]
Baby you kill me, all night long
Baby you’re killing it all night…

Later on that evening
the sun was streaming through the trees
You have to just surrender to life
At moments like these
We were kicking through the fallen leaves
In the pale winter sun
And though I tried to hide it, I always knew this day would come

I recall the very moment 
You didn’t even hesitate
It was written in the heavens
And written all over your face
But the storm is in the distance
The sky is a luminous pink
You can lead me like a horse to water…

[Chorus]
🎸 🤩

Baby You Kill Me

ORIENTATIONs // Is Our Path In Life Actually Predetermined?
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ORIENTATIONs

ORIENTATIONs ft. Patrick Mautner

Good Cop Bad Cop.


They're playin with my head.

Yeah I could say most anything
You twist my words and throw them back at me
It doesn't really matter what I say
You'll draw your own conclusions anyway

Good cop, bad cop.

No mater how it looks or what I say
They're coming out all wrong, my words today
Made up your mind about the way this goes
It's juxtapose if the truth be told.

Good cop bad cop
Playing with my mind.

Yeah I could say most anything
You'll mince it up and bake your lies with it
A recipe for imoral gain
Targets met, bad cop at the reins

Good cop bad cop
Make it stop.

Good Cop Bad Cop.  (Voice of Logan collab).

Free

Hold me

Collab with Thebawlslant! Amazing to be able to write lyrics, do lead vocals and harmony for a track. :) and their patience was beyond amazing!

The Smell Of Smoke.

Quasi Rondo

Neustart

Freude

THE DAYS THE WEEKS AND THE YEARS
Written, Performed, Produced & Mastered
by Andrew Borderick Copyright 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWJtWEi-2zM

ANOTHER WORLD

THE DAYS THE WEEKS AND THE YEARS

THE DAYS THE WEEKS AND THE YEARS (see info for video link)

These SoundCloud posts contain most of my work, and the pieces in the series of 5 Legacy playlists are all those by which I would most like to be remembered. They begin with Noche Oscura, which I wrote in 1976, and end with Broken Forms from 2021 and the opera Russian Jerusalem and the anthem Even-Song, completed in 2022.
Details of all my compositions, and information about their publication, can be found at my publisher's address: Ricordi London (http://www.ricordi.com/en-US/Composers/H/Hopkins-John.aspx)

LA VITA NUOVA IV

John Hopkins

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