This virtual evensong was put together by present company (Beatrix Swanson Scott and Morgan Edward Overton) with singers from the chapel choirs of Trinity and Gonville and Caius Colleges. All the music was specially written by female Cambridge composers Siri Livingston (Preces and Responses), Emily Hazrati (Psalm), Katrina Toner (Magnificat), Marcella Keating (Nunc dimittis) and Sarah (Anthem – Hale Sterne Superne).
Hale Sterne Superne is a setting of three verses from a Scots poem in praise of Mary by William Dunbar. The poem has a fantastic lilting rhythm that just leaps off the page when you read it, which made it a real pleasure to set to music.