About the piece

Setting Robert W. Service’s poem of the same title, At Thirty-Five is a wry, occasionally poignant and ultimately uplifting rant about the doldrums of what we might now call a “mid-life crisis”. The character of the music owes much to the bombast and flamboyance of some of the later English glees.

Instrumentation

SATB Chorus (with divisi)

Duration

3 minutes

year written

2015

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