COMPOSER | ILLUSTRATOR:
Matt Ottley
AUTHOR:
Rebecca Young
ABOUT:
A boy must leave his home and find another. He brings with him a teacup full of earth from the place where he grew up, and sets off to sea. Some days, the journey is peaceful, and the skies are cloudless and bright. Some days, storms threaten to overturn his boat. And some days, the smallest amount of hope grows into something glorious. At last, the boy finds land, but it doesn’t feel complete … until another traveller joins him, bearing the seed to build a new home.
THEMES:
Hope, allegory, separation, immigration, childhood, survival, migration, displacement, belonging.
ORCHESTRATION:
Piano, 1 x violin, 1 x cello, 1 x double bass, recorder quartet (sopranino, alto, tenor, bass), organ, pre-recorded natural sounds provided by Matt (which can also include the organ and the recorder parts), soprano, alto, narrator