Anna Lapwood performs “Drop Down Ye Heavens” from her new EP “In the Stillness”.

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I used to compose almost every day when I was a teenager but find it very hard to carve out the time for it now! Every now and then I get an idea that I can't resist trying out, though, and this is what happened with 'Drop Down ye Heavens'. I was in the middle of finalising our Advent service repertoire with just a couple of weeks to go, and I couldn't decide on a setting of the Advent Prose to open the service. I left my desk to go and conduct our choir practice and a service of Compline, and came out a couple of hours later fizzing with ideas. I went and sat in my office, played around on the piano, and 3 hours later, had written this piece. I was really excited to hear what the choir thought as I had written it with their voices in mind, and so I typed it up and we sang it through at our next rehearsal. We ended up singing it at our Advent service the following week and recording it a couple of months later. In our 2nd rehearsal of the piece, we all felt that the organ part at the beginning reminded us of something - it wasn't until someone set the chapel alarm off mid-rehearsal that we realised it was exactly the same notes, rhythm and tempo, so now whenever we set off the alarm we sing this piece until it is deactivated!

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