Description
Based on my setting of the poem “A time of change” by Mark Haviland:
Survivors of some strange social shipwreck
we swim seperately to shore
There to sit with heads in hands
not speaking to each other any more
We were a group a single body
united in our purpose
Now isolated helpless
communication contact lost
the fragments of some past mosaic whole
now each a single coloured splinter
without guidance or control
The kaleidoscope is shaken
the pattern disappears
the fragments rearranging
A new design appears
we take on new identities
abandoning the past
Memories of our former ties
are all that’s left at last.
This is one of a series of 5 pieces for clarinet and guitar:
A time of change
Serenamente
Danza
An echo from the past
April
The whole series is also available in one bundle:
Score and parts:
https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/20062223?aff_id=175705
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