Sung by The Occasional Choir with Adrian Pitts.
Genre: Choral
Mood: Comic
Forces: SATB
Length: 6 Minutes
Modern Madrigals Book Two (2007) – Six MORE humorous partsongs, SATB, 6’.
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- But what did you have for breakfast?
- Well, if you’ll let me finish, I’m coming to that. The previous government left us a legacy of diminished breakfast uptake, and not enough boiled eggs to go round.
- Did you have toast this morning?
- Well, I’m not ruling toast out, but I’m not ruling it in either. But let’s talk about jam. The previous government’s record on jam was appalling.
- Did you have coffee?
- Look, what’s important here is not whether or not I had coffee for breakfast. What matters is that under this government we’ve had record growth in cereals, historically high kippers, and more kedgeree than ever before.
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Modern Madrigals – Book Two
I had no idea where Modern Madrigals Book Two was going to come from - if there should ever be one. But after a particularly good performance of Book One by the Occasional Choir at Tudeley, I woke up in the middle of the night and wrote down the words for letters G to L.
Where Book One dealt with the voice of everyman, Book Two examines our interactions (and irritations) with organisations - the next step in a kind of Maslowian Hierarchy of Niggles. As with the first six, the texts are ephemeral: just as the madrigals of the 16th & 17th centuries had short sell-by dates, so have these. They will perhaps be very vieux chapeau in a year or two – and this is as it should be.
F L Dunkin Wedd
Tonbridge, January 2007
First performance:
13 Oct 2007, Occasional Choir, Adrian Pitts, Sevenoaks, Kent.