Programme Notes – Serenade for Spring
Commissioned by the Hampstead and Highgate Festival Ltd with Funding from the John S Cohen Foundation
Dedicated to my Parents
Duration 14 Minutes
- Moderate speed – a sort of sleigh ride through melting snow
- A miniature flute concertino – idyllic until just before the close
- A dazzlingly bright May morning, leading by way of a memory of the sleigh ride to:
- Twilight Romanza for strings only, leading to:
- A summing up of events with apologies to the violas.