The Daffodils (2019)

for SSAA choir or soloists

Composed in 2019, this setting of "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" establishes and then rearranges its own original folk tune. Rather than drawing on the sweetness of Wordsworth's flowers, the piece accentuates the unearthly, almost magical energy one encounters when isolated in nature — through which, if left unchecked, one's imagination might run wild.

Text by William Wordsworth