Andrew Downes - A Child is Singing

A Child is Singing

Instrumentation

Baritone solo SATB Chorus Piano

Other Information

Dramatic Cantata about the horrors of nuclear war.

Title and poem ´A Child is Singing´ by Adrian Mitchell. Additional words by an anonymous survivor of Hiroshima, and Cynthia and Andrew Downes.

General Giah baritone
Soldiers and Civilians SATB chorus

Commissioned by the Clarion Singers for their performances for CND and Amnesty International. First performed by them on March 20th 1982 in Carrs Lane Church, Birmingham.