Work The Slaughter of the Innocents for school choir and variable instruments Year: 1977 · Duration: 22m Instrumentation: violins, melodicas, recorders, 4 trumpets, trombone, euphonium, 2 flutes, clarinet, piano, classroom percussion Year: 1977 Duration: 22m Instrumentation violins, melodicas, recorde... Lyell Cresswell Composer Composer: Lyell Cresswell About Work About A cantata for large school choir and variable instruments. Commissioned note Commissioned by: St Columbas High School, Glasgow. Related works Bisbigliando for harpsichord Chiaroscuro for piano HA (for Helen Ainsworth) for piano Octaves of Radiation for chamber ensemble The Money Man opera Threnody for Mrs S who drowned at her baptism for orchestra