A Collection of fourteen scores, professionally notated, printed, bound, and signed with a special message by Ella, including pieces commissioned by BBC Radio 3.
This Collection is stocked by Cambridge Pendelbury Library of Music | Guildhall School of Music & Drama | Trinity Laban Jerwood Library | Leeds Conservatoire of Music | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
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Plango: A Cure Lament | High Soprano and Piano
(Poet Jo Brandon, Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for International Women’s Commission 2021)
Everyday Magic | Mezzo Soprano and Piano
(PRS, Wild Plum & Cheltenham Music Festival Workshop Commission 2019)
Shunned Street | Low Mezzo Soprano and Piano
(Poet Jo Brandon, Leeds Lieder + Festival 2011)
This Little Rose | Soprano and Piano
(Poet Emily Dickinson, released on Emergence, an album by Nadine Benjamin and Nicole Panizza)
Songs for Marvellous | Voice, Piano, Harp, Horn, Cymbals and SSA
(Including 9th October 2014, Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep, - then the letting go - (Sibling), Child and Mother and Song For My Children, 2014-18)
Lamplight | Soprano and Piano
(Poet May Wedderburn Cannan)
Breake of Day | Soprano and Piano
Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep | SSA
(Performed by BBC Singers 2015 & 2016)
Heigh Ho - The Holly! | SSA
(Performed by BBC Singers 2016)
Lucky | Solo Tuba
(Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 2020 )
...And You Know We'll Be Alright? | Full Orchestra
(Performing parts available to hire separately)
I Remember. Like I'm The Only | wind orchestra
(Commissioned as part of the Adopt a Composer Scheme, 2012. Performing parts available to hire separately)
A Domani, People. A Domani | Guitar Ensemble
(Commissioned by Royal Philharmonic Society for Bicentenary Celebrations 2013. Inclusive of performing parts)
Lesser Trefoil | Solo Flute
(Commissioned by City of London Festival, 2012)
Solo Tuba
“They are lucky that what Black people are looking for is equality and not revenge.” Kimberley Jones, 2020
Programme Notes
Lucky was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 as part of their Postcards from Composers series in response to the Covid-19 Lockdown of 2020.
When asked to write this piece, I thought of the Black Lives Matter movement and protests that have spanned the globe over the last month. As a Black, mixed-race woman raised in a predominantly white area, who studied and works in a predominantly white industry, who manages to ‘fit in’ until someone ‘others’ me (read: racism), and who has been silenced when trying to stand up to this, these protests were incredibly inspiring… and the inevitable backlash devastating. This is my response. It has taken courage to submit this. But I will not be silenced any longer.
The title comes from Kimberley Jones’ succinct and rage-inducing exploration of the economic history of slavery and how this relates to today. I urge you to watch the original film by David Jones Media here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb9_qGOa9Go
Lucky received its world premiere by Daniel Trodden, in principal tuba, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, on 22nd September 2020, BBC Radio 3 Breakfast and online.
Performance Instructions
Play every note in relation to the beat. The piece is non rubato
Vocalisations: There are a mixture of set pitches and non-set pitches. Sing in the range that is most suitable for your voice. If you need to change any pitches, please keep the intervallic relationship between them the same.
Duration: 42 seconds
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