Background
Tubular bells launch the piece, chiming the hour, on the phrase “Love set you going like a fat, gold, watch.” At the end of the second stanza, which likens the baby to a new statue in a museum, the choir arrives at four octaves of stacked fifths to end the phrase “We stand round blankly as walls.” Soaring canons and rising runs in the piano bring the piece to a luminous, floating close: “And now you try your handful of notes; the clear vowels rise like balloons.”
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