PUPILS from Atherton Community School have created pieces of artwork to illustrate a piece of music.
The images will be displayed at the premier of 'The Great Cloud Parade’ – a piece of music composed by Lucy Pankhurst in collaboration with Making Rain and Other Things Is Our Business, a book by Atherton author Tony Smith.
The piece, which is the fourth piece Lucy has composed alongside the book, is being performed at Chorley Town Hall by the Leyland Band on September 21 at 2pm.
Tony, aged 70, of Luton Grove, said: “Lucy's composition takes its title from the third story in the book which describes the preparation and parade by some 39 cloud machines, which operate from Wythenshawe Weather Centre, for the celebration of the Queens Diamond Jubilee in 2012.
“The music animates three separate formations that gracefully float across the sky at Houghton Tower near Blackburn, to charm Her Majesty as she watches from the Tower ramparts.”
In the book making and delivering weather is big business for the cloud machine owners of the north west and the man made product that is used as a political tool.
The pupils will use pictures they have created to illustrate the music.
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