By:

• Ross Harris

Duration:

18' 00"

Instrumentation:

12(cor)11; 211(bass)0; timp; perc; cl; hp; strings and solo soprano

Contents:

1. A rooster is walking the bluest night
2. Tu es ma belle
3. The dancer
4. The ladder to the moon
5. The rabbi
6. Give me a green horse
7. As the night
8. You can talk
9. I know the road
10. Like a scarlet lake
11. Mon Dieu

Availability

• This work has a score

Programme Note

The song cycle The Floating Bride, The Crimson Village was written as part of my residency at the New Zealand School of Music in 2008. A casual conversation with writer Vincent O’Sullivan led to him writing fifteen poems inspired by the paintings of Marc Chagall. I set eleven of these for performance at the Adam Chamber Music Festival in Nelson 2009. While the original is for voice and piano I always had in mind orchestral sounds for the accompaniment.

Text Note:

Text by Vincent O'Sullivan

Difficulty:

Advanced

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Performance History

	07 May 2009	Performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra with Jenny Wollerman (soprano) and conducted Hamish McKeich at the Wellington Town Hall, Wellington
		Hamish McKeich    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
	07 May 2010	Performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tecwyn Evans at Wellington Town Hall in Wellington
		New Zealand Symphony Orchestra    Tecwyn Evans

Awards

• NZSO-SOUNZ Readings (2009)
  

  The Floating Bride, The Crimson Village by Ross Harris was performed at the NZSO-SOUNZ Readings in May 2009.