Lux æterna (everlasting light), which begins with a musical quotation from my own Requiem before the word “light” (as, previously, “why”) is sung in various languages. This moves into the children singing a school assembly hymn If I Were a Beautiful Twinkling Star (reminiscent of All Things Bright and Beautiful) before continuing with “light” in Latin, English and Welsh. The orchestra concludes the piece not in pomp and ceremony but rather with a glistening orchestration of celesta, glockenspiel and various bells to depict “light”, the word which, quietly spoken by the children and sung by the soprano, brings the piece to a close.