'A Snow Story'

This is a video I put together a few years ago. 'A Snow Story' forms part of a poetry/music concept album entitled 'In Words, In Music...Of Life, Of Death' and is all about how young you suddenly feel when the Christmas spirit grabs a hold of you! I wrote the poem after catching a snowflake in the palm of my hand while walking back home from work one day. I am a HUGE fan of Charles Dickens 'A Christmas Carol' and think it the best story ever written. A lot of my Christmas musical pieces are thus inspired by the Dickensian era and I love to evoke thoughts of the simple Christmas gifts people used to give to each other back then. To think how magical an Orange might be to a poor boy or girl in Dickens time is still for me an inspiration and I often yearn for life today to be less complicated than it is...

Anyway, I hope you enjoy this little film. It was filmed  at the nature reserve at Church-in-the-Wood, Hollington, Hastings on a magical 'Narnia' like wintry day. I use Church-in-the-Wood quite often to film videos as you will see if you check back here regularly. The music was composed by the brilliant, Harvey Summers and recorded at Broadoak Studios - more about him and there later...enjoy!