Setting the familiar traditional Irish text, ‘May the road rise up to meet you’, An Irish Blessing was written in 2024 as a parting gift for a Pembroke College, Cambridge organ scholar, Andreana Chan, who was graduating that year. The piece is also fitting as Anna...
Setting of the familiar traditional Irish text, ‘May the road rise up to meet you’, An Irish Blessing was written in 2024 as a parting gift for a Pembroke College, Cambridge organ scholar, Andreana Chan, who was graduating that year. The piece is also fitting as Anna...
Last year saw the retirement of Pembroke College’s long-term Master, Lord Chris Smith. I asked if he had any requests for his final concert, and he requested Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’. I spent a couple of days looking at different...
“I wrote this arrangement for the Pembroke College Chapel Choir; we were in the middle of a tricky term with emotions running high, and I wanted to write something to give them hope and bring them some joy! The piece starts soft and meditative – almost...
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...
