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Solo
2015
5 min.
Piano
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- Program Notes
- Prelude to Red Hill was composed to accompany images by David Malikoff and poetry by Hilary Elfick. The project reflected on the devastating effects of the bushfires at Red Hill, a tiny rural community near where I grew up in Port Macquarie. The piece follows the life of a fire from first spark, to raging flames, to dying smoke. “Starts sprite, spitting, spiteful, intrusive, greedy, slinking,infiltrating, permeating, trickling into smallest space... " Roars along the valley floor, sneers at stumbling oldies,wastes the wildlife... "Stumbles, thrashes, over-reaching, dragged down by pygmies' ropes of water... "Crumples, lies, exposed black bones in ash bed of its making, quivers, twitches, whimpers, slumps, shrinks, smoulders, Dies." – Excerpts from Fire by Hilary Elfick.
- Ensemble Name
- Ben Robinson