Keeping Time for Joy (Songbird)

for SSA unaccompanied Marie-Claire Saindon's Keeping Time for Joy abounds with the joy in contemporary writer Sarah Windle's text in this uplifting piece. Folk-like scalic melodies, infused with momentum through changing compound and irregular metres, invite our wintry selves to awaken and soar like summer's swifts and swallows. Effective textural changes, including opening solos over a tutti drone, and imitation between parts enable Saindon to make full use of the upper-voice scoring.