The Carice Singers will give the second performance of my piece Waneth the Watch, the Weaker Ones Dwell alongside pieces by another five composers composed as part of the 2021 Cheltenham Composer Academy and two masterpieces by Ralph Vaughan Williams in his 150th anniversary year.

This piece was inspired by the sunken territory of Doggerland that used to connect the East of England with mainland Europe 8,000 years ago. The music is based on fragments of two texts: the Old English poem “The Seafarer” and its translation by Ezra Pound, and “Thet Freske Riim” in Old Frisian—the oldest preserved variants of the languages spoken either side of Doggerland. The piece explores the musical relationships between these two languages and over the course of the short piece they find common ground—almost like a celebration of this lost territory.

The Carice Singers
George Parris Conductor

https://spitalfieldsmusic.org.uk/events/lend-an-ear-the-legacy-of-ralph-vaughan-williams/