SCORES
Pages of Poetry
for clarinet quartet (clarinet, violin, viola, cello)
LISTEN
ABOUT
Essentially songs without words, the melodic contours of this five movement suite are shaped by poetry composed by such greats as Walt Whitman, Rabindranath Tagore and an Ancient Egyptian text by Akhenaton.
clarinet quartet (clarinet, violin, viola, cello)
DURATION
20:00
The Flower School 4:30
Passing Vision 2:00
Clouds & Waves 2:00
Beat, beat drums! 7:50
Hymn to the Sun 2:30
DATE OF COMPOSITION
2000
PERFORMANCES
5 June 2000 (World Premiere) Early 4mvt version Ku-ring-gai Virtuosi: Deborah de Graaf/Mark Fitzpatrick/Benedict Hames/Georg Pedersen
Turramurra Uniting Church, Sydney.
The Studio, Sydney Opera House
16 February 2001 Final Version Quatour Krommer: Thomas Friedli/Edouard Jaccottet/Yukari Shimanuki/Mi-Kyung Kim/
La Grange du Chateau de Vennes, Lausanne, Switzerland
L’Heure Musicale live broadcast from Chateau Attalens on Radio Suisse Romande, Switzerland.
2002 Quatour Krommer
Eglise de Corpataux, Switzerland.
Gruyere, Switzerland.
Radio Suisse Romande broadcast.
2007 (Beat, beat, drums! only) Griffyn Ensemble. Dir. Michael Sollis
National Library of Australia, Canberra.
2008 Griffyn Ensemble. Dir. Michael Sollis
National Library of Australia, Canberra.
