Article: Rough Beast, Couth Clouds
- by Roger Covell — © John Fairfax Holdings
- Source: Source: Sydney Morning Herald, 24 May 1993 pg.23
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THE latest Sydney Symphony Orchestra's 20th-century program is,
in all-round terms, the most challenging of the series so far.
Few scores as full of primal, shaggy power as Harrison
Birtwistle's Gawain's Journey have been heard in a Sydney
concert.
Birtwistle's larger orchestral works usually have something about
them of Yeats's fabulous "rough beast"; in this case, the beast
seems to ...
