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Robbie Ellis  

Feral

Duration: 05' 30" Year: 2009, r. 2012
for full orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    2[picc]2[ca]2[bcl]2[cbsn]; 4331; timp.; 3perc.; strings
  • Programme Note

    Feral is the story of a creature that lives somewhere humans seldom go. His environment is dank and dark. Sunlight seldom penetrates the tree canopy – day is differentiated from night only by a thin translucent film. This area is down the side of a hill in a remote, inhospitable valley not easily accessed by others. Perhaps it’s a forbidding lost world at the back of your garden.

    The creature is aggressive, easily spurned, and thoroughly anti-social – both by environment and by choice. He has no need of a name, because nobody ever sees him long enough to give him one – or at least nobody lives to tell the tale. You find yourself on his turf. Nobody can hear you.

    You’re never to be heard from again.

    Feral was workshopped by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and conductor Hamish McKeich as a finalist in the 2009 NZSO/Todd Corporation Young Composers Competition. The piece was highly commended through winning the Orchestra’s Choice Award.

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Pieta Hextall  

Portrait

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2009
for full orchestra