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Napier's Bones

for 24 percussionists and improvising jazz piano

Year:  1989   ·  Duration:  35m
Instrumentation:  also in a version for 6 perc and improvising piano

Year:  1989
Duration:  35m
Instrumentation  also in a version for 6 per...

About

For improvising piano and percussion, Napier's Bones was written for the outstanding improvising pianist Judy Bailey and exists in two formats - one involving 24 percussionists and the other involving 6 virtuoso percussionists.

"The New Zealand work which evoked a similarly strong reaction was Gillian Whitehead's Napier's Bones whose protracted time-frame of beautifully controlled percussive and pianistic gestures was music from another sphere - an utterly compelling experience of the type I am always looking for in contemporary music." (de Castro-Robinson).


Commissioned note

Commissioned by Judy Bailey with funding assistance from the Australia Council

Judy Bailey