Where The Bee Sucks
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SKU: BT.MUSJC71147
Composed by Thomas Augustine Arne. Arranged by Granville Bantock. Classical. Choral Score. Composed 2015. 4 pages. Curwen #MUSJC71147. Published by Curwen (BT.MUSJC71147).English.
Bantock has arranged Where the Bee Sucks for unaccompanied Voice SSA. He scores a single statement of the first quatrain and devotes the remainder of the piece to expressing the 'under the blossom that hangs on thebow'theme.Thomas Arne, English composer, Violinist and Keyboard player, was a major figure in 18th century English theatre music, and the composer of Rule, Britannia, among many other songs. The song Where The Bee Sucks waswrittenin 1740 for the Drury Lane production of The Tempest and it has never gone out of the repertoire since that time. Composer, conductor and educator Granville Bantock's (1868 1946) oeuvre is reaching new audiencesthroughrenewed interest in the performance of his works. He was an energetic and creative personality who was key in founding the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and championing the music of Jean Sibelius in his day.
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- Where the bee sucks