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Ross Harris  

Silence Greets the Dawn

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2006
for vocalising percussionist

• Programme Note

  “Today, New Zealand Forests are quiet but in 1770 Joseph Banks wrote thus about Queen Charlotte Sound: ‘This morn I was awkd by the singing of the birds ashore……the numbers of them were certainly very great……’ He would be shocked at the silence that greets the dawn there now.” The Lost world of the Moa – Worthy and Holdaway. "Aotearoa’s multitude of birds performed that symphony each dawn for over sixty million years. It was a glorious riot of sound with its own special meaning for it was in confirmation of the health of a wondrous and unique ecosystem. To my regret, I arrived in New Zealand in the late twentieth century to find most of the orchestra seats empty. Walking through the ancient forest…….I heard nothing but the whisper of leaves blowing in the wind. It was like the rustle of the last curtain fall on an orchestra that will be no more.’ Tim Flannery – Future Eaters

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