Work
We Welcome Summer
for unaccompanied choir (SSAATTBB)
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About
This piece sets a poem of the same name by Michael Leunig, taken from his book, 'The Prayer Tree'. Both text and music are a prayer of thanks for the coming of summer, and the 'glorious blessing of light'.
Commissioned note
'We Welcome Summer' was written for The Australian Voices, Brisbane.
Text note
Text by Michael Leunig
Performance history
Performed by the Sydney Chamber Choir with director Paul Stanhope at St Scholastica’s convent, in Sydney