Suite (in modo semplice) (2025-26)
A Homage to Herbert Howells
Small 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) a collection of 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