By:

• Bruce Crossman

Duration:

06' 00"

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• This work has a score

Programme Note

This piece is dedicated to my friends, Jim and Jeanette McQuillan.

The work was written at the request of Professor Jack Speirs for the Southern Consort of Voices, Dunedin, with the support of the Mozart Fellowship (1992) at Otago University.

I’ve tried to capture the rich colour palette of the poem with chorale writing; this is intercut to jazz inflected ‘horse’ race rhythms and age old fugato as means of variety, all within an accelerating tempi pattern.

The poem Humming is by Hone Tuwhare, published in Short Back and Sideways (1992, Godwit Press, Auckland)

Bruce Crossman

Commissioned:

Commissioned by Associate Professor Jack Speirs, Southern Consort of Voices, Dunedin, 1992

Dedication:

Dedicated to Jim and Jeanette McQuillan