Song-cycle: "Lights Out: Four Poems of Edward Thomas" - excerpt(s) from

'Lights Out' is a song-cycle written for voice, harpsichord, recorder and cello in memory of Kenneth Leighton. 
The work was premiered in Wakefield Cathedral in 1993.  Scottish première, Reid Concert Hall, 24 October 1993.

1.  The Trumpet
2.  The Ash Grove
3.  The Wind's Song
4.  Lights Out

Edward Thomas was 36 when, encouraged by Robert Frost, he wrote his first poems.  The following year, 1915, he left his come in Steep, Hampshire, to serve in the war, enlisting in the Artists' Rifles.  He was killed in action in France in April 1917.