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Rena

for string trio

Year:  2011   ·  Duration:  5m 30s
Instrumentation:  violin, viola, cello

Year:  2011
Duration:  5m 30s
Instrumentation  violin, viola, cello

Composer:   Jillian Bray

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Sample Score

Sample: bars 60-67

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About

The opening bars depict horror at news of  Rena's grounding. We await the turn of events effecting the inhabitants of the ocean and its Bay of Plenty beaches. For a short time life proceeds as normal. Sea creatures splash in ocean swells until sinister oil slicks insinuate deathly contagion toward shore. Ocean life becomes stifled.

In time nature's order is part restored, but the feeling remains that something has been irretrievably lost to future generations. Rena's broken hulk is a grim monument.

(bowing is at the discretion of the performers.)


Dedication note

Written for The Questa Musica Trio, for performance in the NZCT Chamber Music Contest


Performance history

03 Jun 2012: Performed by The Questa Musica Trio at the Senior Citizens Hall, in Waikanae