Suite (in modo semplice) (2025-26)
A Homage to Herbert Howells
Organ (or any other keyboard instrument)
Duration:
TBC
First Performance [‘Pavave & Galliard’]:
12 November 2025
Carson Cooman, Memorial Church, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Score (full piece still in progress)
Programme note
The Suite (in modo semplice) is (as the title suggests) simple pieces for a small organ, or alternative. In writing the work I became reacquainted with Herbert Howells’s Lambert’s Clavichord, his set of pieces largely written in 1927 which were in many ways a love-letter to the Tudor period and the composers flourishing at that time. In no way are my pieces a pastiche of Howells, but rather acknowledging the inspiration of his work, which in turn acknowledges that of his Tudor forebears. I thought it made for a satisfying homage to English music that speaks to me above all others.
PAC