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These dark notes drifting
for mixed chamber quartet
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About
These dark notes drifting takes its title from a poem by 9th century Cinese poet Li Po. Inspired by a Chinese folk tune, the pice evokes distant flutes, coloured by the sounds that one might hear across a valley at night in the spring.
Commissioned note
Written for Music X Festival, Blonay, Switzerland, in 2010
Contents note
one movement
Performance history
30 Jun 2010: Performed by Tim Munro (flute and alto flute), Petrus Gärdborn, (flute and piccolo), Jeremy Malvin (percussion) and Erika Dohi (piano) at Bartok Hall, Hindemith Music Centre, in Blonay, Switzerland