Earth's Children (Original Composition)

"This recording was made by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in a workshop recording session."

"Earth's Children: I - Ayla" Op. 2 No. 1 by Stephen Clothier (14)
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra
Hamish McKeich

I wrote this one for the Trust's Secondary Composer's Competition back in 2008.

For this piece, I was inspired by a series of books by Jean Auel, "Earth's Children". This movement depicts the character and actions of Ayla, a Homo sapiens child adopted into a clan of Neanderthals. I suppose it could be described as a 'tone poem', as I attempted to evoke Ayla's character as well as actions taken by her during the course of the first novel, "Clan of the Cave Bear".

If you want to see how my composition style improved (maybe?!) since then, check out the video "Ascent of the Blessed (Original Composition)" that I posted earlier.

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[xanfus]

are you rich? if not you should be!

[violavonschnitzel]

@xanfus Haha I assure you, I'm not rich. ;) I am quite flattered though :D

[RotesFleisch]

Hi Stephen, it's Marcus. Did you have to ask the APO before you did this? Btw, amazing piece. I hope I'll can write like you one day.

[violavonschnitzel]

@RotesFleisch I did ask them, they were all good with it.

Hey man, your music's pretty top-notch :)

[emilygclarinet]

EXCELLENT music!

[qwts]

is magic....



[angiekim1126]

:) Lovely.

[Masiakasaurus]

I LOVE it. Absolutely beautiful! It doesn't sound amateur to me. :)