Of a Summer Day
Lyrical suite for 3-part women's choir with soprano (or mezzo soprano) solo and string orchestra, Opus 77, (1951)
To-day' (Carlyle), 'Morning' (anon.), 'Make much of time' (Herrick), 'Song of June' (Symons), 'Elegy' (Arnold), 'Scherzo' (Harvey), 'Hurricane' (Bridges), 'Sunset' (Bridges), 'Silver' (de la Mare)
Duration: 24''
Publisher: Association of American Choruses (1960), now private
available privately
PERFORMANCES
First performance:
Other performances: Edinburgh Chamber Orchestra/HG, Roberta McEwan (sol), Edinburgh, May 1953
St. Andrew House Singers/Edinburgh Chamber Orchestra/Hans Gál, May 1954
Bryn Mawr College Chorus/Goodale, Bryn Mawr, Apr. 1956
Royal Scottish Academy of Music, Glasgow, May 1956
Judith Lovat/Waverley Singers/Meadows Chamber Orchestra/Peter Evans, Edinburgh, Nov. 1984, Mar. 1985
The Waverley Singers, Edinburgh, Mar. 1986
Patricia Rosario (sop),Edinburgh Quartet, Glasgow Chamber Choir/Bawtree. Edinburgh, Jun. 2015