A setting of three poems by W.H. Auden for alto saxophone and mixed choir: Domesday Song, Our bias and Funeral Blues. Commissioned by Sam Laughton and the Elysian Singers of London with the aid of a generous grant from the PRS for Music Foundation. Texts used with the permission of the Estate of W.H. Auden. First performed by the Elysian Singers and saxophonist Kenji Fenton, conducted by Sam Laughton, on Tuesday 1 March 2011 at St Peter's, Eaton Square, London.