Rose, Peter – One Sun One World – Full Score by Josef Weinberger

One Sun One World

A Musical Entertainment

for Soloists, Chorus, Narrator and Orchestra

Commissioned for the 50 th Anniversary of WWF-UK

Music by P ETER R OSE

Words by A NNE C ONLON FULL

SCORE

Josef Weinberger in association with WWF-UK

ONE SUN ONE WORLD – Full Score

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Instrumentation

2 Flutes (2nd doubles Piccolo – optional)

Oboe

2 Clarinets in B (2nd doubles Bass Clarinet)

Bassoon

2 Horns in F

2 Trumpets in B

2 Trombones

Tuba

Percussion (minimum 6 players):

Timpani (3)

Drum Kit

Snare Drum, Tenor Drum, Concert Bass Drum, Clash Cymbals, Stand Cymbal, Triangle, Tam-Tam, Congas, Bongos, Cabasa, Samba Whistle, Claves, Glockenspiel, Xylophone, Vibraphone

Piano* (optional)

Harp (doubles Claves)

Strings (Violins 1 & 2 / Violas / Cellos / Double Basses)

*Composer's note regarding the use of the piano:

The orchestration of One Sun One World was arranged without the need for a piano. However, should no harpist be available, a piano will be required to play in its place; the orchestral piano part should be used for this purpose. Several other songs could possibly feature the piano - but only where the songs are marked as 'optional'. In the songs marked 'rehearsal only', the piano should not be used in performance.

Narration One

This one earth, what an amazing place it is! Four thousand million years ago, it was a planet of hot seas and violent volcanoes. The thin atmosphere gave no protection from the burning power of the sun. It was a lifeless world - no trees, no plants, no animals.

But in that hostile, barren world, the first molecules of life were formed. Slowly, gradually, over millions of years, they increased, interacted and developed. Life had been born: bacteria and blue-green algae; brachiopods, crinoids and trilobites; mosses, horse tails and ferns.

As the millions of years passed, those living things changed the world. Photosynthesis produced oxygen, the breath of life for the first fish and the first reptiles. The oxygen formed a protective layer of ozone which cooled the earth and filtered out the harmful rays of the sun.

The lifeless planet had become a living world. Every plant and every animal gradually took its place in the web of life woven during the long millennia of prehistory.

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This world, the world of the panda, the polar bear, the tiger and the old oak tree, is the world we, too, can call home.

A hundred thousand years ago, our first ancestors lived in East Africa, but from these early beginnings, they spread throughout the world. Fifty thousand years ago, they crossed the open sea and settled in Australia. Twenty thousand years later, during the last ice age, they crossed the land bridge into America. By ten thousand years ago, they had settled in every type of landscape: from the savannah plains of Africa to the monsoon deltas of Asia; from the tropical islands of the Pacific to the tundra of the frozen north; from the temperate forests of Europe to the rolling grasslands of North America.

To survive in all these different places, they had to adapt their way of life, and gradually they developed some amazing skills. They learned to talk. They learned how to use fire. They made tools for themselves. They tamed animals and they grew plants for their food.

They knew they would only survive if they worked with the earth and respected the landscape around them. This was especially true for the people who chose to make their home in the most hostile parts of the world: the desert lands of great heat and the arctic lands of intense cold.

Narration Three

Working with the natural rhythms of the earth, our ancestors thrived and flourished. They were so adaptable, so inventive.

Always searching, always questioning, they yearned for a greater understanding of the world and a better way of life. They shared their skills, worked together, established the first societies and shaped the landscape to meet their needs. Eventually, they built great cities and founded mighty empires.

They were always eager and willing to communicate with other people. They wanted to share the goods they had made, the crops they had grown and the new ideas and inventions they had discovered. And as they bartered, bought and sold, the ancient trading routes of the world became established, routes such as the Silk Road to China and the spice trade with India and beyond.

A world where nobody travels and nobody trades and everyone stays in their home? Such as world is surely impossible to imagine.

People have always shared their knowledge, and that knowledge gradually spread from land to land, sometimes taking hundreds, even thousands of years.

The sharing which followed that first voyage of Columbus in 1492 was quite different. So many crops were transported. So many people migrated. Carried on the sailing ships of Europe and driven by the power of the winds, our worldwide system of trade began. Those first sugar plants, transported by Columbus, really were the beginning of a new world.

Since that time, empires have come and gone and new technologies have speeded up the systems, but the sharing had continued. And it has brought us to our present world: multicultural, multinational, interdependent and above all, driven by the power of an engine. Narration Four

Narration Five

Water! How amazing it is, so soft and yet so powerful, so destructive and yet essential for every living thing. And the earth has been blessed with so much of it: the great oceans, the mighty rivers, the gigantic lakes, the vast ice fields, every stream and pool in every land on earth.

We have always harnessed water for our advantage. Six thousand years ago, the people of Mesopotamia diverted water from the River Tigris to irrigate their fields of wheat. In another part of the world, farmers were already building rice paddies on the Yangtze River Delta.

Thousands of years later, Romans engineers built great aqueducts to channel water to the very heart of their cities. Later still, Victorian engineers built canals and excavated reservoirs to power their industrial revolution.

More recently, we have seen the invention of hydro-electric power and the damming of some of the largest rivers on earth. Pumping systems can now tap into ancient waters, sealed in aquifers deep underground beneath some of the driest lands on earth.

All this engineering and all this effort have ensured an ample supply of water for everything we need. As a result, many people in the world today enjoy great prosperity. Even for the humble rat, life has never been so good.

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The stresses of the modern world sometimes overwhelm us and we long to return to simpler times, but in reality, for countless people, life is very comfortable.

The inventive human mind has provided us with so many things. It brought us electricity. It gave us the telephone, the radio and the television. It invented antibiotics, anaesthetics and a host of wonders to relieve our pain. It split the atom and discovered nuclear power. It broke the bounds of gravity, reached for the stars and set new satellites in their orbit.

And it produced the communications revolution, which binds us all together ever more closely. Could we ever imagine returning to a world with no computer, no internet - and no mobile phone? Narration Six

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I'vetravelled-roundtheworld

Narration Seven

This is the world we have built for ourselves, a world in which the lives of every human being and every creature are linked by so many threads: the threads of trade and finance, the threads of fuel and communication, and the threads of those absolute essentials of life: food and water.

And at this very minute, some of the most inventive minds on the planet are busy devising new systems, new technologies, new wonders as yet unimaginable, as they continue to search for an even greater understanding of the world and an even better way of life.

But where is all this speed and all this activity leading us? Will those interconnecting threads of life ever give way?

What will the future hold? Will our comfortable way of life ever change?

For many people and for Cacao, life is already changing.

Narration Eight

Yes, we can change the world. For ten thousand years, human beings have been doing exactly that. But we need to decide how we want to change it.

There is no doubt that the earth will survive. It survived bombardment by meteorites. It survived the great ice ages. The web of cold and heat, which holds the seed of life, will most certainly heal the wounded earth in ways we could never imagine.

But if we want to be a part of that healing, we will surely accept the need for change and be prepared to adapt as people have so often adapted in the past. We will make fewer demands of the earth, taking less for ourselves, leaving more for others. We will foster a new generation of scientists, engineers and politicians who will share their skills and understanding for the benefit of us all.

But the task is too great to be left to them alone. No-one is powerless. We all have a contribution to make.

And what exciting work it is! Never before have human beings held such power over the world, the world from which every living creature draws its life, this wonderful world we all share.