David Heyes - Serenity: a Meditation for Sara for double bass quartet

 About the Composition God, grant me the strength  of eagle wings,  the faith and courage  to fly to new heights,  and the wisdom  to rely on His spirit to carry me there.  [Native American Prayer for Serenity]  The music is slow moving initially, setting the mood of the piece, with a middle section which has more direction and momentum primarily pushed along by the repeated motif from basses 3 and 4. It returns to the more solemn style towards the end with a sustained two-part chord which contrasts the cadenza-like music for basses 3 and 4 which begins low and quickly moves into the higher register, played in harmonics and ending gently and hopefully with a feeling or resolution.  The Native American prayer was the starting point for Serenity, originally written for an unusual scoring of viola and 2 double basses and subsequently rescored for double bass trio and premiered at the Purcell School (Bushey, Hertfordshire UK) on Sunday 24 July 2016 by Eloise Riddell, Jacob Robinson and Dav