Choir Secular SKU: PE.EP73617
Composed by Sally Beamish and Words by Peter Thomson. Edition Peters. Contemporary. Choral Octavo. 20 pages. Edition Peters #98-EP73617. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP73617). ISBN 9790577022642.
Can you hear me? is written for eight-part a cappella choir and sets a new text by Peter Thomson that asks simple but fundamental questions about the need for human contact. First performed by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain at the Royal Albert Hall, London in December 2021, it captures one of the problems the world faced with the Covid-19 lockdown, and looks forward to new beginnings. Duration is 4.5 minutes.