Work The Slaughter of the Innocents for school choir and variable instruments Year: 1977 · Duration: 22m Instrumentation: violins, melodicas, recorders, 4 trumpets, trombone, euphonium, 2 flutes, clarinet, piano, classroom percussion Year: 1977 Duration: 22m Instrumentation violins, melodicas, recorde... Lyell Cresswell Composer Composer: Lyell Cresswell About Work About A cantata for large school choir and variable instruments. Commissioned note Commissioned by: St Columbas High School, Glasgow. Related works Concerto for Orchestra and String Quartet for orchestra and string quartet Six Poems by Amy Lowell for soprano and piano Snatches, from Baptized Generations for tenor and piano Tre Canti for soprano and piano Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue for piano Words for Music for mezzo-soprano