Name: Stephens, Ian: The Snow
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Stephens, Ian: The Snow

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Arrangement: for unaccompanied mixed choir
Edition Type: score
Publisher: Composers Edition
Catalogue Number: ce-is1ts1
Pages: 16
Date Published: 9th Oct 2023

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The Snow is a setting for unaccompanied mixed choir of Yr Eira, a poem by the great 14^th-century Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym, freely translated into English in about 1834 by Arthur James Johnes (1809-1871).

Rich in a wide variety of wintry imagery, the poem tells of its author’s complaint that he cannot leave the house because of the snow covering everything in sight. Snowflakes are at one point compared to ‘the white bees of Paradise’, a reference to the medieval Welsh legend that bees were white until their expulsion, along with Adam, from Paradise.

The Snow was written for Manchester Chamber Choir and its director Vicente Chavarria, and was first performed by them at Christ Church, West Didsbury, on 25 November 2023, and at Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, on 5 December 2023. It takes about four minutes to perform.

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