Celebrating the life of Robert Van Allan (20th October 1979 - 21st June 1999). Commissioned by Rosemary Pickering, the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. First performance by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with the Norfolk and Norwich Festival Chorus and Children's Choir on Saturday 2nd May 2009, St Andrew's Hall, Norwich. Texts by Wordsworth, Charles Causley, Langston Hughes, WJ Turner, Thomas Traherne, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Tennyson, Whitman.