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Item code: MM196| Robin Redbreast An Easter Song in the Folk Idiom for Voice and Piano or Organ |
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| Date of composition | 1967 |
| Opus number | (No opus number) |
| Type of work | Concert music |
| Duration | 2¼ mins |
| Musical forces | Voice and Guitar, Piano or Organ |
| Words | Carey Blyton |
| First performance | Spring 1967 |
| First performance information | Broadcast in a Southern TV religious programme at Easter 1967 to an accompaniment of two guitars and a ‘backing’ by the Mike Sammes Singers |
| Publisher | Modus Music |
| Archive location | Trinity Laban (Jerwood Library) |
| Archive contents | MS / BLYTON 87 |
| Notes | Written as an entry to the 1967 Southern TV A Carol for Easter competition, where it reached the semifinals (the last twelve from a field of over 1,000 entries); originally composed for voice and guitar; broadcast in a Southern TV religious programme at Easter 1967 (to an accompaniment of two guitars and a ‘backing’ by the Mike Sammes Singers); published in 1999 and dedicated at that time to Gary Higginson, a composer and former student who had put on performances of many of Carey’s works at St Helen’s School, Abingdon |