These pieces were all written for the Hertford Symphony Orchestra's annual Robert Kiln Children's Concerts between 1993 and 2000

Full score and parts available for hire (by the month); songs (in piano score) to purchase
Orchestration is in normal score order

IHMO11

Aliens! An Interplanetary Suite Op. 91

£30.00

2d2 2d1 2d2 2 - 4231 tp perc strgs

children's choir (recorder group ad lib.)
The songs are available separately (without the interludes)

songs £1.50

Words by the Composer; a not very serious look at alien life forms
1. Prologue - The journey begins 2. Song - M.A.s of Mars 3. Interlude I - Sunwards
4. Song - Pepsi-drinkers of Venus 5. Interlude II - Beyond the asteroids
6. Song - Classic FM buffs of Jupiter 7. Interlude III - Toward the unknown region
8. Song - Way out on Pluto

IHMO12

Earth to Earth Op.98

£25.00

2+122+1-4331 tp perc hp strgs

children's chorus (2-part)
The songs are available separately (without the interludes)

songs £1.50

Words by the Composer; a not very serious look at extinct animals
1. The earth awakes 2. Song - Jurassic Bach 3. Dinosaurian fugue

4. Song - Woolly mammoth 5. Mammoth's dance (Tarantella)

6. Song - Go-go Dodo 7. Finale - Cortège

IHMO14

Waltzing Matilda Op. 109

£15.00

2+122+12-4331 tp perc hp strgs

(optional solo or children's chorus)

An elaborate arrangement of the familiar song, appropriately in the style of Percy Grainger

IHMO15

A Millennium's Story Op.118

£30.00

2222-4231 tp perc hp strgs

children's chorus (with spoken solos)

Words by John Bishop; a not very serious look at English history from 1066 to the present.
1. Prelude 2. Normans 3. Plantagenets 4. Tudors and Stuarts

5. Hanoverians 6. Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Windsor
 

with appropriate help from Henry VIII, William Lawes, Henry Purcell, Handel, Sullivan, Noel Coward and others