SCORES
Elegy
soprano/mezzo soprano & piano
text anon
LISTEN
ABOUT
The Elegy’s anonymous poem, sometime ascribed to the American Makah tribe, was given to the composer after the death of her month-in-law Trudl Howat in 1993. Trudl’s spirit of light and adventure is well reflecting in verse, and in setting it to music the composer was able to express her own feelings of thanks and of fond farewell.
soprano/mezzo soprano & piano
Range: d’sharp to g’’sharp
DURATION
2:30
DATE OF COMPOSITION
1993
PERFORMANCES
1995 Adele Johnston/David Harper
Downer Room, Australia House, London.
1995 Jennifer Bates/Claire Munn
Glasgow University, Scotland.
1996 Vivien Hamilton/Wendy Hiscocks
ABC ‘in house’ recording
1996 Merlyn Quaife/Denise Papaluca
ABC performance
1999 Sarah Redwick/Wendy Hiscocks
The City Temple, London.
1999 Sarah Redgwick/
Wakefield Cathedral, Yorkshire.
28 January 2001 Anne Ramoni/June Dinkel
Chateau de Grandson, Geneva, Switzerland. (Swiss premiere)
2001 Rebecca Ryan/Grace Tse
Exhibition Hall, Australia House, London (Gala Concert Final of the Performing Australian Music Competition)
Later broadcast by ABC courtesy of BBC Radio International.
