Karl Jenkins: Parliament of Owls now arranged for SSA

(December 2010)

A celebration of collective nouns in three contrasting movements, with saxophone, percussion and piano duet accompaniment.

English collective nouns encapsulate in an intrinsically attractive way something characteristic of the group, for example 'a gaggle of geese', 'a piteousness of doves', 'an ostentation of peacocks'. Carol Barratt's text assembles these evocative expressions into hilarious nonsense poems.

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