The work has a notation to be played "with dignity and strength" and it is that annotation which encapsulates the effect the composer and commissioner intended...
A sense of ceremony, strength and continuity was the underlying notion behind the structure and development of this work.Program NotesA sense of ceremony,...
All about a kookaburra in "an old gum tree", the piece is written as a "patrol" beginning with a distant "pizzicato style" pulse building to a rousing middle...