Juvenilia

Laurence Osborn

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Duration
25 mins
Year of composition
2019
Number of performers
16
First performance
New London Chamber Choir, CLF Art Café, London
Commissioned by

The New London Chamber Choir

Description:

Juvenilia is about the codes and languages that children use. Much of it was inspired upon reading Peter and Iona Opie’s The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, a wonderful ethnographic study of playground games, chants, rituals and insults from British schools during the 1950s and ‘60s. In Juvenilia, these texts are combined with texts from my own (1990s) childhood, including the chants ‘Ip Dip Doo’ and ‘Nobody Likes Me’, the made-up languages Pig Latin and Uvaguv, computer cheat codes, and Pokémon trading cards.

Full Scoring:

Choir I: SSAATTBB
Choir II: SSAATTBB

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