She's Leaving Home

This classic Beatles song is extraordinary in so many ways. With simple, direct story-telling it gives a vivid snapshot of lived experience in a time of social change, clothed in Debussian harmonies on string quartet and harp. The layering of different narrative points of view in the choruses is incredibly clever - combining musical simultaneity with lyrical intelligibility. Watch and learn.

The arrangement aims to stay out of the way of the song - to let the story through, whilst alluding to the subtleties of the original without letting the details distract.