This duet was commissioned by Janet McCallister and Peter McClymont for their Wedding Day, 21 January 1995 and is based on a poem I Name this Place by Lauris Edmond (from Scenes from a Small City).
This setting was written for Christchurch treble Ashley White in 1980. Thomas Nash’s words evoke the joy and carefree spirit of Spring, the season of renewed hope. With his ’cuckoo’s, jug-jugs’ and other onomatopoeic sounds abounding throughout, it seemed a lovely vehicle for a gifted treble’s special quality
