Work The Slaughter of the Innocents for school choir and variable instruments Year: 1977 · Duration: 22m Instrumentation: violins, melodicas, recorders, 4 trumpets, trombone, euphonium, 2 flutes, clarinet, piano, classroom percussion Year: 1977 Duration: 22m Instrumentation violins, melodicas, recorde... Lyell Cresswell Composer Composer: Lyell Cresswell About Work About A cantata for large school choir and variable instruments. Commissioned note Commissioned by: St Columbas High School, Glasgow. Related works And Every Sparkle Shivering for piano quintet EK (for Elizabeth Kerr) for piano Mezzotinto for piano Of Smoke and Bickering Flame concerto for chamber orchestra Of Whirlwind Underground for mixed chamber quintet Pianto - In memoria di Roger Cresswell for horn and string orchestra