My programme note on this piece from 2012:<\/p>\n
Ondas <\/em>(\u201cWaves\u201d) sets a love poem by Federico Garcia Lorca.\u00a0 I was interested in the image of the \u201cconcentric waves\u201d which the speaker says are like the waves in his heart when his beloved speaks.\u00a0 I wrote a sort of circular melody (the same melody, in fact appears in For No One, To No One<\/em>), which weaves around a hexachord before arriving back at its starting-note.\u00a0 As the poem continues, the melody expands and ranges more widely\u2014from a low f-sharp to a top B in fact\u2014 like, perhaps, the expansion of the waves?<\/p>\n Lucy Williams premiered this piece in a lunchtime concert at St Michael\u2019s Church, Southampton, 24th February 2009, later singing it (twice?) in Manchester, and once again in Southampton at my “Music for Voices” composer portrait concert in 2012.\u00a0 Danae Eleni sang it wonderfully at my other<\/em> composer portrait concert in 2012 (in Turner Sims concert hall) as well as on later occasions.<\/p>\n The bandcamp link contains Lucy’s ’09 and ’12 versions (I’m not sure which of the ’09 performances that is), as well as Danae’s ’12 performance.<\/p>\n