By:

• Christopher Blake

Duration:

14' 00"

Instrumentation:

(1)22(1)2(1)2; 4331; 3 perc. ;strs

Availability

• This work has a score and 2 recordings

Programme Note

This orchestral work is based on the novel The Scarecrow by the great New Zealand comic novelist Ronald Hugh Morrieson. The world of small town New Zealand and its black and dangerous undercurrents are depicted in atmospheric and unpredictable music.

Difficulty:

Advanced

Influences:

• Art and literature - NZ

Performance History

	27 Nov 1998	Performed in a rehearsed reading by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marc Taddei as part of the NZSO-SOUNZ Readings
		Marc Taddei    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Awards

• NZSO-SOUNZ Readings (1998)
  

  Night Walking with the Great Salter was performed at the NZSO-SOUNZ Readings in November 1998