Blocks

This piece for young singers is about the adventure of building things with your imagination. The music builds itself up in blocks, with new instruments added in layers using three simple hand percussion lines and a   recorder part that uses the first three notes (GAB). As I was writing this music, I imagined some kind of swashbuckling adventure and thought about the time I've spent building with LEGO bricks and playing Minecraft and   Terraria. The text is by Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote Treasure Island,   Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and many other books and poems.