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Out of this Nettle, Danger
for mezzo-soprano and chamber sextet
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"Out of this Nettle, Danger is intimate, acute, fleet, with a fascinating sensitivity to the deep implications of the text. There is a big range of percussion instruments, used with the greatest economy and power of suggestion so that no sound or thematic fragment is perfunctory, each has a voluptuous, expressive, original shape. The piece moves forward in small episodes, held together partly by text, partly by the sheer consistent quality of the imagination." (Oakes, The Independent)
Commissioned note
Commissioned by the NZ Literary Fund and funded by the Australia Council
Text note
Text by Fleur Adcock, compiled from Katherine Mansfield's writings
Performance history
05 Mar 1987: Performed by Anthea Moller (mezzo) and the Karlheinz Company, conducted by John Elmsly