By:

• Juliet Palmer

Duration:

12' 00"

Instrumentation:

3322; 4321; timp, 2 perc., hp, strings

Samples

Score (155k)

pp 1-5

© Juliet Palmer

Availability

• This work has 3 scores

Programme Note

Two birds inspired this piece: Tchaikovsky’s Swan and Stravinsky’s Firebird. Buzzard is dedicated to my father, a high-speed pilot who loved Stravinsky’s music as passionately as that of Gil Gilberto and Dave Brubeck. A real buzzard… “And as to you Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths;”, Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass (1900)

Influences:

• Dance

Performance History

	09 Oct 2003	Performed by l’Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal, conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin