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((Short description|Cantata by Arthur Benjamin))
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The '''''Storm Clouds Cantata''''' (or'' Storm Cloud Cantata'') is a [[cantata]] by the Australian composer [[Arthur Benjamin]].
[[File:RoyalAlbertHall.jpg|300px|thumb | The Royal Albert Hall, the scene of the "Storm Clouds Cantata" in both versions]]

This cantata was written for the assassination scene in the [[Alfred Hitchcock]] 1934 film, ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film)|The Man Who Knew Too Much]]'', in the [[Royal Albert Hall]]. In the film version of 1934, the [[London Symphony Orchestra]] was directed by [[H. Wynn Reeves]]. In [[The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film)|the 1956 version]], however, the London Symphony Orchestra was conducted by [[Bernard Herrmann]], the composer of new music for the remake, and the chorus is the [[Covent Garden Opera]] Chorus with  soloist [[Barbara Howitt]].

The Cantata is 177 measures and runs 8–9 minutes. It starts with a ''[[Tempo|Lento]]'' in [[three-quarter time]] in [[C major]]. The first half of the cantata is ''[[Tempo|Lento]]'', at 108 beats per minute. Then begins the ''[[Allegro agitato]]'', characterized by rhythmic strokes of the [[timpani]]. The conclusion is ''[[Tempo|Presto]]''.

==Instrumentation==
The work is scored for SATB chorus plus a mezzo-soprano soloist, with an orchestra consisting of 3 [[flute]]s (3rd doubling [[piccolo]]), 2 [[oboe]]s, 2 [[clarinet]]s, 2 [[bassoon]]s, 4 [[French horn|horns]], 3 [[trumpet]]s, 3 [[trombone]]s, [[tuba]], [[timpani]], 4 percussion (snare drum, bass drum, cymbals), organ, 2 harps, and strings.


==Text ==
The libretto of the cantata was written by [[D. B. Wyndham-Lewis]]. This appears to be his only actual contribution to the screenplay, although he is credited as co-author.

'''Soloist''':
<poem>There came a whispered terror on the breeze.
And the dark forest shook</poem>

'''Chorus''':
<poem>And on the trembling trees came nameless fear.
And panic overtook each flying creature of the wild</poem>
:Original: ''...flying creature of the wind''
<poem>And when they all had fled</poem>

'''Soloist''':
<poem>All save the child — all save the child.
Around whose head screaming,
The night-birds wheeled and shot away.</poem>

'''Chorus''':
<poem>Finding release from that which drove them onward like their prey.
Finding release the storm-clouds broke.
And drowned the dying moon.
The storm-clouds broke — the storm clouds broke.
Finding release!</poem>

===Addition for the 1956 remake===
<poem>Yet stood the trees — yet stood the trees
Around whose heads screaming</poem>

The singers perform in an alternation between male and female:
<poem>Finding release;
Finding release from that which drove them onward like their prey.</poem>

This last part is part of the ''poco crescendo'' played by the [[Timpani|Tympani]] to culminate in the ''[[Maestoso]]'' in the finale which ends with the [[cymbal]] crash in which the assassin shoots.

==Publication==
The full score of the ''Storm Clouds Cantata'' has never been published.  A piano arrangement of the latter half of the work was published in 2014 in the collection ''Music From the Hitchcock Films''.<ref>''Music from the Hitchcock Films'', arrangements by Christopher Hussey, Jeremy Birchall, and Jane Watkins, edited by Jenni Norey, London: Wise Publications, 2014. ((isbn|9781783056064))</ref>

==Recording==
A recording of the complete 1954 version [i.e. with Herrmann's embellishments] is included on the CD ''[[Elmer Bernstein]] conducts the [[Royal Philharmonic Orchestra]]: [[Bernard Herrmann]] Film Scores - from [[Citizen Kane]] to [[Taxi Driver]]'' (1992).

==See also ==
* [[Alfred Hitchcock]]
*'' [[The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film)|The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)]]''
*'' [[The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film)|The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)]]''
* [[Royal Albert Hall]]
* [[London Symphony Orchestra]]
* [[Bernard Herrmann]]
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==References==
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[[Category:Alfred Hitchcock]]
[[Category:Film music]]
[[Category:Compositions by Arthur Benjamin]]
[[Category:1934 cantatas]]

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