By:

• Clare Maclean

Duration:

07' 00"

Instrumentation:

2*222; 4231; perc. 1 (timp., sus. cym.), perc. 2 (glock., crotales, tub. bells, sus. cym., tri.), hp; strings

Availability

• This work has 2 scores

Programme Note

Panah takes as its starting point the sound of several European church bells, and musically develops the different partials within these sounds, heard as fragments which appear and recur through the orchestra.


The orchestra is at first like a big bell, and later a set of bells rings in the brass. The music aims to express a sense of the numinous that bell sounds can create, a sense of an appearing of divine glory hidden in the world.


“Panah” is a Hebrew word which means to turn, to show one’s face, to appear.

Difficulty:

Advanced

Performance History

	02 Sep 2008	Performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Scott Parkman as part of the 2008 NZSO-SOUNZ Readings held at the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington
		New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Awards

• NZSO-SOUNZ Readings (2008)
  

  Panah by Clare Maclean was performed at the NZSO-SOUNZ Readings in September 2008.