Video Information

• Choir: Elizabethan Singers
• Piece: Humming and Ah-ing Machine
• Composer:  John White
• Conductor:  Jonathan Rennert
• Voices:  SATB
• Sheet Music:   www.sheetmusicplus.com/ti...  
• Genres: A cappella, Classical, Contemporary, Minimalist
• John White (5 April 1936 - 4 January 2024) was an English experimental composer and musical performer. He invented the early British form of minimalism known as systems music, with his early "Machines".
  
  Humming And Ah-ing Machine is an inno...  moreJohn White (5 April 1936 - 4 January 2024) was an English experimental composer and musical performer. He invented the early British form of minimalism known as systems music, with his early "Machines".
  
  Humming And Ah-ing Machine is an innovative and fun composition by John White for unaccompanied SATB chorus. The work is made up of short repeated phrases that evolve and entwine, creating a hypnotic and exciting overall work.
  
  We performed this piece at a concert in St Michael's Cornhill, London, in 1983.
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