Name: Hope Is The Thing With Feathers by Will Harmer
Duration: 4 min 9 s
Description: A setting of Emily Dickinson's 'Hope is the Thing with Feathers', performed by Milly Forest and Ana Manastireanu at the London Song Festival 2021.

A setting of Emily Dickinson's 'Hope is the Thing with Feathers', performed by Milly Forest and Ana Manastireanu at the London Song Festival 2021.

Hope Is The Thing With Feathers

A more extended piano improvisation. I cut off the first minute as I was still warming up on the piano... (no-one will notice :D)..

Tell me what you think! And apologies for faltering on the Bb7 chord in the first couple minutes :/ Have a great easter everyone!

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Will is a composer and pianist based in Cambridge/London, writing instrumental and choral music inspired by various poetic and visual sources. In 2017, Will won the BBC Proms Inspire Competition, with his composition ‘The Whole Heaven on Fire’ being performed by the Aurora Orchestra under Nicholas Collon. He was subsequently commissioned by the BBC Singers to compose ‘Voyage of the Soul’, a piece commemorating the Apollo 11 Moon Landings which was broadcast on Radio 3 last year. Will’s works have been performed in venues such as Snape Maltings, Wigmore Hall and The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and have been broadcast on BBC radio and television. Will also sings professionally with St Martin in the Fields choral scholars, and previously with Genesis Sixteen, and has worked with Oxford Youth Choirs as an accompanist and conductor. He currently studies with Morgan Hayes at the Royal Academy of Music.

Hope Is The Thing With Feathers

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