The Pembroke Carol

The Pembroke Carol

Written by Anna Lapwood and The Pembroke College Girls’ Choir For mixed choir (SATB a cappella)Text: English (Sara Teasdale) Duration: 2 minutes Difficulty: 2/5 “Following a couple of experiments with whole group composition, we decided to do a full...
Silent Night

Silent Night

Written by Anna Lapwood and The Pembroke College Girls’ Choir Text: English (Joseph Mohr, trans John Freeman Young) Duration: 3½ minutes Difficulty: 2/5 “Silent night is the piece which started a new tradition at Pembroke! At the end of each term we hold a...
Gaudete

Gaudete

Written by Anna Lapwood and The Pembroke College Girls’ Choir For SSAA a cappella with optional tambourineText: Latin Duration: 2 minutes Difficulty: 2/5 “Following a couple of experiments with whole group composition, we decided to do a full weekend of...
Drop down, ye heavens

Drop down, ye heavens

“I used to compose almost every day when I was a teenager but find it very hard to carve out the time for it now! Every now and then I get an idea that I can’t resist trying out, though, and this is what happened with Drop down, ye heavens. I was in the middle...
O Nata Lux

O Nata Lux

For mixed choir (SATB with divisi a cappella)Text: LatinDuration: 4’00” “O nata lux started life as a piece written for a men’s voices Compline service at Pembroke College. We were consciously trying to include music by women in every service and I...