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Curlew in the mist

solo shakuhachi

David Lumsdaine

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979-0-57020-053-5 Curlew in the mist – Score Available at MusicRoom Buy now (£7.00)

Description

Commissioned by Tall Poppies.

curlew in the mist for solo shakuhachi was commissioned by Belinda Webster for performance by Riley Lee and first performed by him in Sydney, January 1994. It was sketched in Connemara in September 1993 and completed in London the following month.

 

Silver soft across the bay,

echoing hard, from Cloch na Ron,

a curlew calls in the mist.

 

 

DL, 1994

Details

Categories
Duration
8 minutes
Premiere

Riley Lee, Sydney 1994

Scoring
1 Shakuhachi
Composition date
1993