Harrison Birtwistle

The Woman and the Hare (1999)


Plays: 2888


for soprano, reciter and ensemble
(excerpt)
Duration: 01 mins 43 secs
Claron McFadden / Julia Watson / Nash Ensemble / Martyn Brabbins
(p) and (c) 2002 Black Box Music Limited
Black Box BBM 1046

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Text heard on Sample:
Reciter:
I have come to this place to be shot of myself,
   I have come to come
to nothing, or less than nothing if nothing
is absence and absence nothing more than a
   face or name
gone missing. Yes, even less. Worse off than without.
Moonshine makes this lush landscape a washout.

Soprano:
Moonrise...landscape awash
with dead white light
colour of cold cash

© 1999 by David Harsent

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