Send Fire for wind orchestra

Premiered by the Wind Ensemble at Sherborne Summer School of Music 2019, conducted by Katherine Stonham and Bjørn Sagstad.

Programme Note –

Send Fire imagines a prehistoric caveman sat in the cold and the dark. In much the same way as a human might wistfully look at friends’ pictures on social media, he looks with envy across a valley at another caveman who has discovered fire and is having a great time. The piece deals with the idea that connection with other humans through the internet is insufficient when geographically separated by great distances. Something that can be seen but is out of reach if anything only causes greater feelings of emptiness and yearning.