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Colin Matthews

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Matthews invests much of his music with enormous energy and momentum …

— Stephen Pettitt, artspages.com

10 Pig Songs (2015-6). Chorus & piano

A picture of a lop eared pig in its sty

I’ve been writing pieces since 2009 for the remarkable Magdalen Farm String Course for young string players aged 9-16, which takes place each Easter near Winsham in Dorset. In 2015 I began setting some of Wendy Cope’s  ‘Traditional Prize County Pig’ poems, and 2017 – the 10th anniversary of the course – saw the first performance of all 10. The songs are written for unison and two-part voices and piano.

While strolling around Magdalen Farm, I was delighted to discover a Cornish Lop-Eared Pig, who ‘doesn’t know the world is big/And beautiful. He doesn’t try/To wander. He’s an easy pig,/Content to stay within his sty.

View the score (published by Faber Music)

Categories: Children's pieces, Choral, Voice

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