Music archive entry

Cornelius Cardew Ensemble, Bretton Hall, 1998

The piece can be performed with soloists on each line, in which case good amateurs or professionals will be needed. Alternatively it can be performed by a larger ensemble, and moderate amateur players would be able to perform it.

Percussion required - floor tom, snare drum, cymbal, triangle, glock/bells

Apollinaire was one of the pioneers of modern poetry, and lived in the pre-First World War Paris of Picasso and Stravinsky. The three poems set here are "Pont Mirabeau", a poem of lost love, "Cornflower 1917", based on his experience of trench warfare, and "It's raining" which expresses a sense of disorientation.