SAM: The Collection

In fact, Poppy’s work has continued to develop in many and varied directions since then. Laurence Crane fills in the blanks. Over the last two decades Andrew Poppy has steadily assembled a fascinating and unusual body of work which encompasses concert music, opera and scores for contemporary dance, theatre, film and television.

Laurence Crane’s miniatures present a return to figuration after abstraction, a return to clarity after excess, and a return to singularity after multiplicity. The material chosen is familiar; mostly consonant, often tonal, triads, elementary chords, old well-used intervals rescued from a previously unjust ignorant redundancy.