Full Score of John Woolrich's The Barber's Timepiece for Full Orchestra.

'I wrote 'The Barber’s Timepiece' in the spring of 1986 for the orchestra of the National Centre for Orchestral Studies. The title came to me after the music had been completed; it comes from one of Italo Calvino’s retellings of Italian folk tales. The story tells of a clock that had kept perfect time for centuries without being wound up. “The barber had wound it up just once, and from then on, ticktock, ticktock, ticktock. . .” “. . .People from all over were accustomed to run to his shop to ask the clock things they needed to know.” . . . . . .”Oh clock, oh clock, when will my tribulations end? Tell me, for pity’s sake, when to expect Death?” . . . . . .”TickTock, TickTock, TickTock, For him who sings no song, Life may be very long."'

~ John Woolrich