Now The Heart Sings

for youth choir with parts for SSA, highs, middles, and lows (for boys' changing voices) This is a magical setting of a profound and impressionistic text by the contemporary poet A. D. Hope, which describes the burgeoning of the soul as though the heart itself is 'singing' from within the body. Chilcott creates a pulsing, hypnotic soundscape which mirrors this sentiment. It is a striking concert work which caters imaginatively for the particular demands of youth choirs.