Description
This is an easy to learn, jazzy piece with playful and waggish text. A showy contemporary splash of traditional counterpoint with a ‘warm-up’ round embedded within the work.
Robert writes: Joy of Joys was first conceived as a round – and indeed the round can be lifted from the song and used as such, written for The Logan City Community choir, which was struggling to attract more men to join. As such the work was meant to be whimsical and a play on the word ‘Amen’ which morphs into ‘Arh… men!’. The round was set in three parts and extended, given piano accompaniment and was premiered by Viva la Voce, the choir of St Ritas College, Clayfield.