Lumas Winds - Anna Clyne: Overflow

Lumas Winds and students of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama perform Anna Clyne's Overflow in the Dora Stoutzker Hall. 'Overflow is a wind dectet inspired by Emily Dickinson’s poem, By The Sea, in which we experience the ocean’s power over the poet’s imagination - both alluring, unsettling and dangerous. The line from which this piece takes its title “Would overflow with Pearl” reminded me of an image from Jelaluddin Rumi’s poem Where Everything is Music whereby the tiniest motion of a pearl on the ocean floor can cause great waves above. The opening sonority of Overflow also draws inspiration from Rumi’s words of a “slow and powerful root that we can’t see” with a low B-flat, the lowest pitch of the ensemble emerging from silence.' Beth Stone Madeleine Longbotham Chris Vettraino Ellen Wilkinson Rennie Sutherland Alvaro Hurtado Flo Plane Hugh Sergeant Benji Hartnell-Booth Adam Muxworthy 30/01/2026