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Letter to Lydia
for alto, guitar, flute and cello

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Story behind the piece:
Poem by David Andrew addressed to his daughter Lydia:

You have your own dreaming,
I cannot follow where another mind
sums up the quiet arithmetic of the day.
Growing there, where none can reach you,
making of the going days the stuff of yourself


I can only watch
remembering in you
the art of empty tomorrows
written all over with impulse.


Nor can I tell
how many times you will fall
only be there to help you survive your desires


Oh I will spend with you ev'ry wish
as you go the long way through sorrow


for you can only find for yourself
how the magic arithmetic
suddenly adds up


now time will come for you
soon enough
the day wake in your eyes


so sleep as long as you can
gathering there the necessary
and private ways
of enduring.  

A new version of this song (for soprano, guitar, piano and electric bass) has also been written for the New Zealand Group "Chocolate Ice"

Scores and parts are available at MyScoreStore:
Score of original version

Score of modern group version



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