Beggarman-Thief! (1984)
Duration: First Part: 45 minutes; Second Part: 35 minutes
Libretto: composer, after the book Peter Fidus by Sven Wernstrom, with interpolated poems of William Blake
It's Spring - I'm eighteen!
I'm going off to the Big Town
To make something of myself!
I'm leaving - NOW!
An opera in Two Acts for Young People to sing and play
Commissioned by the Inner London Education Authority's Cockpit Theatre
MP3 audio extract (1'48"):
Act 1
Other Music for Young Players or Amateurs:
Infinity Contained
Timeflight
Suivez la Piste!
Dayspring - a Madrigal for May
Three Carols for 1984
Alice First and Last
By Fire [Per Ignem]
The Owl and the Pussycat
Four Traditional Christmas Carol Arrangements
The Darkness Declares
Fanfares and Nocturnes
Ring Out Wild Bells!