Two and Two make Four for alto voice, flute and guitar by David Warin Solomons Small Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

Setting of a poem written by my father, inspired by a poem by Jacques Prévert The pdf file contains score and parts The audio is my own performance. "Two and two make four four and four make eight eight and eight make sixteen" the teacher cries "Once more! Two and two make four four and four make eight. Now concentrate!" But the lyre bird passes overhead and the child sees and calls and cries "Rescue me, play with me, beautiful bird, beautiful bird!" And the bird comes to play with him "Two and two make four Once more! Once more!" But the child plays his game and the bird plays with him. "Four and four make eight, eight and eight make sixteen, sixteen and sixteen?" "Sixteen and sixteen total nothing of worth at all Not thirty two at any rate Not as I calculate!" And off they go. Inside his desk the bird is hid and all the children can hear its surging song. Eights vanish quite away and fours and twos are gone ciphers that go their way and one and one is neither here nor there So there! So there! and the bird wings while the child sings the teacher shouts "stop your playing about" but all the children can hear the truth the walls of the class quietly vanish away windows turn to sand ink clears to water. The desks are trees chalk becomes cliff and the quill takes flight!