THINGS AS... (2023) by Robert Crehan published on 2023-08-14T19:17:38Z THINGS AS... (2023) for eight voices (SSAATTBB) was created as part of Cheltenham Music Festival Composer Academy 2023. Performed by The Carice Singers, directed by George Parris. The text comes from a phrase that recurred obsessively in my mind for several days, often with the words ‘are’ and ‘were’ being interchanged; drifting over one another arbitrarily. The rest of the phrase remained rigid in its structure. This is reflected in the music through economic use of musical materials which are interchanged, and overlapping layers of contrasting textures that are incessant and largely static. – RC Genre Classical