Summer 1: ‘Night Ferry’ by Anna Clyne

Year 2

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Song: ‘Night Ferry’

Composer: Anna Clyne

Anna Clyne is a modern classical composer who is still living and working.

Lesson Resources for ‘Night Ferry’:

CBBC – Ten Pieces, Full orchestral performance: Anna Clyne’s Night Ferry (extract)

CBBC – Ten Pieces – Night Ferry (extract) by Anna Clyne

‘Dance’ by Rumi
Dance, when you’re broken open.
Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance when you’re perfectly free.

Cello player, Inbal Segev, leads this heart-breaking rendition of Anna Clyne’s ‘Dance’ which is based on a poem by Islamic poet Rumi.

Watch The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra perform Anna Clyne’s ‘Masquerade’: a playful, colourful piece based on old English folk tune ‘Juice of Barley’.

‘Prince of Clouds’ – Performed by The String Orchestra of Brooklyn

Elim Chan conducts an ensemble of Philharmonia string players in Anna Clyne’s achingly beautiful ‘Within Her Arms’. This moving piece, dedicated to her mother, is a meditation on grief and the search for solace.