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Judith Bingham: The Stars Above: The Earth Below

A performance of The Stars Above: The Earth Below, by Judith Bingham. Played by Brass Band Berner Oberland conducted by James Gourlay. As with most of Bingham's other works for brass band, The Stars Above: The Earth Below has a strong historical aspect to it and takes us into a very different sound world than that normally associated with brass bands. The work was inspired by W B Yeat's poem "The Wild Swans at Coole". Bingham writes: "Wild swans make long migratory journeys every year. Their, and other birds' migrations are a great constancy in world history, and so can be seen as a metaphor for the paradox of stability and change. I thought of some of the scenes of history (including mythical ones) the swans might have flown over, particularly scenes of constancy and betrayal". Later, in an interview, Bingham expanded her description a little: "I imagined what the birds looked down on, the changing scenes below, so there are echoes of tragic Arthurian love and the battlefields of World War 1. I like bird-watching and am very moved by the vast journeys birds like wild swans make every year".