Icumen (2011)

orchestra
3332/4331/timp/3perc/strings
duration 3:00

Sumer is icumen in,
Lhude sing cuccu!
Groweþ sed and bloweþ med
And springþ þe wde nu,
Sing cuccu!
Awe bleteþ after lomb,
Lhouþ after calue cu.
Bulluc sterteþ, bucke uerteþ,
Murie sing cuccu!
Cuccu, cuccu, wel þu singes cuccu;
Ne swik þu nauer nu.
Sing cuccu nu. Sing cuccu. Sing cuccu. Sing cuccu nu!

-Middle English reverdie, 13th century A.D.

PERUSAL SCORE

PERFORMANCES

commissioned by the Aldworth Philharmonic Orchestra
premiere: Aldworth Philharmonic Orchestra (Reading, UK), January 21 2012