Death Of A Brother

Stroud Theatre Company are touring When The Lights Went Out written by Bristol based writer Mike Akers. I have been Musical Director and Composer on the production.

The play is set in rural Gloucestershire around the time of the second world war, and focuses on the life of a young woman and her family. Apart from using music from the time, I wanted to write music that set the play in the landscape of the Cotswolds. Music that conjures the mist rising up the valley as the sun hits the fields in the early morning, the various shades of grey silhouetting the hills as they recede into the distance.

This is an example.

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Clarinets – Anna Westlake, Sarah Blower
Violin/Viola – Samuel Martin