The Bee Carol
choir [SATB]
c. 2'
The Bee Carol takes inspiration from Carol Ann Duffy’s poem of the same name. The poem plays with the fragility and vulnerability of the bee in hibernation, but also of the strength of the hive together. I felt a particularly strong connection with this image from my own time spent in Manchester - the city of the worker bee. The music responds to the inquisitive nature of the bees in their fragile state, and is treated as a folk tune to reflect the original secular use of carols through history.
