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Dry White Fire

for violin & piano

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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.

INSTRUMENTATION
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

Australian violinist Anna da Silva Chen with the composer