As a companion piece for her cantata The Measure of a Tree, Janet has composed a setting of Kate Wakeling’s poem ‘and a tree’ for the Scunthorpe Co-operative Junior Choir. Kate’s poem was commissioned by the Poetry Society to celebrate the decoration of the annual Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree in 2022. Janet chose to set this text because it echoed many of same ideas explored by ‘The Measure of a Tree’. She has dedicated her setting to Susan Hollingworth, the long-standing conductor of the choir and Daniel Fields, the present conductor. The children will learn and perform the piece over the coming year and it will then feature alongside The Measure of a Tree in a performance by Scunthorpe and District Choral Society in 2027. Janet has been invited to conduct this concert, and she is working on a reduced orchestration of the cantata for that performance.