SCORES
Dry White Fire
for violin & piano
LISTEN
ABOUT
Mary Gilmore’s poem ‘An Aboriginal Simile’ conjures up the baked, parched earth and the grass “like a dry white fire” before the arrival of the much needed rain. These images are reinterpreted musically in this love song between the earth and the rain for violin and piano.
violin & piano
DURATION
5:30
DATE OF COMPOSITION
2010
PERFORMANCES
27 August 2010 (World Premiere) Lauren Davis/Wendy Hiscocks
Composer Forum, Riverina Conservatorium of Music, Wagga, Australia
12 March 2014 (UK Premiere) Madeleine Mitchell/Nigel Foster
Bangor New Music Festival, Wales
2016 Anna da Silva Chen/Wendy Hiscocks
St. Jude’s, Bowral, Australia
Gerringong Town Hall, Australia
2017 Madeleine Mitchell/Wendy Hiscocks
St. Mary-at-hill, London
Steinways, London
2023 Madeleine Mitchell
world premiere recording on Naxos
Australian violinist Anna da Silva Chen with the composer
‘Two exceptional pieces by Wendy Hiscocks are, Caprice, a stunningly pictorial description of a bird in flight for solo violin, and Dry White Fire for violin with piano, based on an Australian Aboriginal poem concerning drought.’
Alan Cooper British Music Society
