Of a summer day
lyrical suite for three-part female choir with soprano or mezzo-soprano solo and string orchestra, Op.77 (1951)

'To-day' (Carlyle), 'Morning' (anon.), 'Make much of time' (Herrick), 'Song of June' (Symons), 'Elegy' (Arnold), 'Scherzo' (Harvey), 'Hurricane' (Bridges), 'Sunset' (Bridges), 'Silver' (de la Mare)
Duration: 24' (2'30",2'30",2',2'30",2',5',2',2'30",3')
First published by Association of American Choruses, Philadelphia, 1960
now: available privately

Performances (selection):

Edinburgh Chamber Orchestra/HG, Roberta McEwan (sol), Edinburgh, May 1953
St. Andrew House Singers/Edinburgh Chamber Orchestra/Hans Gál, May 1954
Bryn Mawr College Chorus/Goodale, Bryn Mawr, Apr. 1956
Royal Scottish Academy of Music, Glasgow, May 1956
Judith Lovat/Waverley Singers/Meadows Chamber Orchestra/Peter Evans, Edinburgh, Nov. 1984, Mar. 1985
The Waverley Singers, Edinburgh, Mar. 1986