Elaine Agnew
   
homeBiographyWorksEventsShopGalleryContact


TEARS

 
Year:
2013
 
Type of Work: Vocal/Choral
 
Instrumentation: Unaccompanied choir
 
Length: 9 minutes
 
Text: Pat Boran
 
Commissioned by: Ulster Youth Choir
 
Premiere: 26 July 2013, Ulster Hall, Belfast. Ulster Youth Choir, conductor Greg Beardsell
 
Recording: Ulster Youth Choir
 
   
 


 

Tears was commissioned by the Ulster Youth Choir in 2013 and is a setting of an extract of a poem of the same title by Irish poet Pat Boran.  It was premiered in the Ulster Hall in Belfast by the Ulster Youth Choir and then performed the next night in Christ Church Catherdral in Dublin with the combined forces of the Ulster Youth Choir and the Irish Youth Choir, conducted by Greg Beardsell.