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Buzzard
for orchestra
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About
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)
Performance history
09 Oct 2003: Performed by l'Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal, conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin
08 Apr 2021: Performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, conductor Hamish McKeich at the Michael Fowler Centre
08 Apr 2021: NZSO Podium Series | Firebird (Wellington)
10 Apr 2021: NZSO Podium Series | Firebird (Tauranga)
17 Apr 2021: NZSO Podium Series | Firebird (Napier)
24 Apr 2021: NZSO Podium Series | Firebird (Auckland)