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And the Sun Stood Still [EXTRACT]
- for Symphony Orchestra

Commissioned and premiered by the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Bramwell Tovey at the QEH in December, 2018.

Inspired by the winter solstice and the primal, prehistoric resonance that it holds. Images of bleached, mid-winter landscapes; crystal shafts of frozen light and an intense, bright, burning sun low on the horizon.

The energy within shafts of frozen light is depicted alongside the intense darkness invoking the ancient belief that the winter solstice was a day when dangerous spirits walked the earth. Seeing the sun at its lowest point in the sky made people fear that its strength would never return.

But ultimately the winter solstice brings a feeling of hope and renewal.

© Copyright Sarah Frances Jenkins

And the Sun Stood Still [EXTRACT]

For Piano Quinet. Duration: 6’00”

Commissioned by the 2019 Cheltenham Music Festival Composer Academy and performed by Tom Poster and the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective on 10th July, 2019 at the Pittville Pump Room.

Inspired by the W.B. Yeats poem 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree':

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow
And evening full of the linnet's wings

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore'
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey.
I hear it in the deep hearts' core. 

W.B Yeats

© Copyright Sarah Frances Jenkins

The Lake Isle Of Innisfree

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