Five Days that Changed the World - Bob Chilcott

for upper-voice choir, SATB choir, piano, and optional timpani Setting a newly written text by Charles Bennett, Five days that changed the world takes singers on a journey through five historical events: the invention of printing, the abolition of slavery, the first powered flight, the discovery of penicillin, and the first man in space.

Thursday 29 March 1455: The Invention of Printing; Friday 1 August 1834: The Abolition of Slavery; Monday 14 December 1903: The First Powered Flight; Friday 28 September 1928: The Discovery of Penicillin; Wednesday 12 April 1961: The First Man in Space