For All We Know

This arrangement reimagines a barbershop classic. It is still cast as a contest-suitable ballad, intended for a free, rubato delivery, but it has become more wistful in its colouring, with a greater awareness of the imminence of loss. It is informed by both the phrasing and the orchestral motifs of Nat King Cole's version, and it is the yearny chromatic lines that create the emotional flavour.

The tessitura of all the parts sits quite high, to suit the quartet it was originally created for.