Weir BLUE HILLS BEYOND BLUE HILLS

Judith Weir blue hills beyond blue hills for SATB chorus and string quartet

words by

Alan Spence

CHESTER MUSIC

Oct. 19

blue hills beyond blue hills words by Alan Spence I first warmth of spring I feel as if I have been asleep

summer rainstorm the afternoon raga quickening

crocuses where last week the slow lay thick

all night long that single mosquito

spring snow trying its best not to fall

big bruised clouds the colour of the storm

all morning the drip (of) melting snow from the trees

letting go of all the misery – swimming in the ocean

suddenly spring – my heart and the river full to bursting

swimming in the ocean – catching the wave, being caught by it

sun after rain after sun after rain

unbearable heat – the sudden rush of rain brings ease

blue hills beyond blue hills beyond blue hills

soothing me asleep the hush of the rain

that sweet cacophony (these) chirping birds this clear morning

dapple of light on the page making this poem

bright morning that bird I can’t name singing singing singing

dumb bumblebee bumps the windowpane again again again

Insects on a bough floating down river still singing II I’m falling up into it – big summer sky that old/new smell of fresh cut grass the yellow gorse making the sky more blue honeysuckle? jasmine ? the faintest trace in the night air drift of incense shimmer of sitar music long ago

the setting sun turns every window to stained glass [Kobayashi Issa] only the wind in the trees the far blue hills the late bee drowned in a jar of honey watching the sky darkening the moon brightening III Middle of the night – the thin time between worlds.

The blinds are open.

The moonlight streams in.

suddenly shivering my clothes are too thin – the first yellowing leaf

not light till nine/ dark again at four/ and in between/ rain

an apple rotting just where it fell the smell of autumn

dark already – the icy rain incessant

every autumn that has ever been – the tree half green half gold

it fades, it fades, the last light of the year

late evening light just touching the tops of the trees

another birthday – never mind the cold, fling the window open!

over the wall of the cemetery – sunflowers

My name in the book – year of my birth, a hyphen and then that blank space waiting to be filled in.

footballers training in the autumn rain – the new season why this ? why that ? (all night the rain on fallen leaves) as if any of it (mattered) – the autumn wind scrabbling, a mouse (behind) the skirting board (cold october night) cloud (of) starlings turning as one (in the evening light) (sleeping alone) all night that gate banging in the wind

And then it will be over, as over as it is for Shakespeare, Mozart, Lao Tsu, my mother and father and all the rest.

V winter solitude in a world of one colour the sound of wind new year dawn red sun rising out of the black sea bright winter morning – how simple it all seems, how clear

autumn night the unanswered phone in the next room

snow falling everything in its place

IV

snow on snow making not a sound

turning back the clocks – how dark the night how cold making tea as if nothing had happened Last quarter, last third of my life? Either way it’s autumn, shading, shading into winter

[Matsuo Basho]

Let it all go. The new year enters. The earth turns in space. The waves crash on the shore.

Let it all go.

Words by Alan Spence © Copyright, Alan Spence.

All Rights Reserved. Reproduced by permission.

Words by Kobayashi Issa and Matsuo Basho © Copyright, The Essential Haiku – versions of Basho and Issa, trans. Robert Hass, Bloodaxe Books, 2013 www.bloodaxebooks.com All Rights Reserved. Reproduced by permission.

Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and first performed by the BBC Singers and the Ligeti Quartet conducted by Sofi Jeannin at Milton Court, London on 18th October 2019.

Duration c. 35 minutes

COMPOSER’S NOTE This 35-minute oratorio for choir and string quartet sets to music around 55 brief poems by the Scottish poet Alan Spence, mostly haiku, with occasional tanka (another, slightly longer, Japanese form). I have also included a couple of quotations from the historical Japanese poets Issa and Basho.

Spence’s poems are taken from three collections (Seasons of the Heart, Clear Light and Morning Glory – mainly the latter two) which follow the progress of a year, and portray the passing of time through small changes in nature and everyday life. I have selected poems from these collections to create a five-movement cycle which approximately follows the seasons, starting with Spring, through Summer, Autumn, Winter and ending with a hymn to the New Year.

The role of the string quartet is not generally to accompany the singers, but rather to punctuate their statements and to provide moments of repose or reflection. Alan Spence’s poems in their published form usually appear one to a page with a lot of clear space around them, and that is also the intention in this musical version.

J.W.

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