Dead Letters (2010)

Duration: 12’00”

Instrumentation: tenor and piano.

Text: Robert Brigdes, Digby Mackworth Dolben, Walt Whitman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

First Performance: Nicholas Mulroy (ten.) and John Reid (pno.); Tardebigge Church, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire; 25th of July 2010, as part of the 2010 Celebrating English Song Series.

Notes: Commissioned by Celebrating English Song.