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Performance by The Song Company, Roland Peelman from the CD Selected Works by AMC Represented Artists, vol. 93. |
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Work Overview
On Wednesday, 13th March, 1996, sixteen children, all 5 years old, were shot and killed at a primary school in Dunblane, Scotland. Their teacher was also killed. Eleven more children and two other teachers were shot and injured.
The text of Lament for Dumblane is a response to this tragedy although it refers to it only obliquely.
The music spins out a long line of lamentation, divided between antiphonal sopranos. I was aiming to explore the expressive potential of using quite strict limitations: deploying a few notes at a time, twisting and turning in such a way as to keep a sense of momentum. The tenor and bass parts underpin the line, using the bleak intervals of 4th & 5ths particularly at cadence points, but they also unsettle the line with uneasy independent movement.
Work Details
Year: 1996
Duration: 8-9 min.
Text by the composer.
Analysis
Program note: Lament for Dunblane Jennifer Fowler
The Song Company
Source: M for Murder 21 June 1997
Performances of this work
1 Jul 2011: at BBC Singers (St Giles Cripplegate). Featuring BBC Singers.
10 Sep 99: Donne in Musica Festival, Fiuggi, Italy. Featuring The Song Company, Roland Peelman.
8 Aug 99: Uniting Church, Pitt St, Sydney, NSW. Featuring Roland Peelman, The Song Company.
6 Nov 97: Spitalfields Market, Spitalfields, London E1, UK. Featuring The Song Company, Roland Peelman.
4 Nov 97: Exeter College Chapel, Oxford, UK. Featuring The Song Company, Roland Peelman.
10 Oct 97: Barossa Festival, South Australia.. Featuring The Song Company, Roland Peelman.
28 Sep 97: Holmes Building, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW. Featuring Roland Peelman, The Song Company.
20 Jun 97: Access Contemporary Art Gallery, 36 Boronia St, Redfern, Sydney, NSW. Featuring Roland Peelman, The Song Company.
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