These arms to hold you
Sheet Music

Item Number: 20416217
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Instruments
Choir
Ensembles
Orchestra
Children's Choir
Genres
Classical
Formats
Study Score
Usages
School and Community
Children's Choir and Orchestra

SKU: PE.PREUME12S

Composed by Eve de Castro-robinson. Full Scores. Study score. 52 pages. Duration 00:10:00. Edition Peters #PREUME12S. Published by Edition Peters (PE.PREUME12S).

ISBN 9790674522342.

Commissioned by the Royal Plunket Society for the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Eve de Castro-Robinson’s These arms to hold you channels both tender adoration and the excitement of a new arrival. The children’s choir maintains an expectant energy in this work with handclaps, overlapping chants, glissandi, ecstatic yelps and lullabies. Esteemed New Zealand poet Bill Manhire provided text for the choir, with excerpts taken from actual Plunket books heard alongside Manhire’s own prose. Castanets and temple blocks are made curious and playful in this setting as they provide a bubbling rhythmic drive for the orchestra. These arms to hold you was the winner of the 2007 SOUNZ Contemporary Award.