Composer:
Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Instrumentation:
Solo Saxophone
Duration:
09:30
Difficulty:
Difficult: approx diploma/professional
Publisher:
Cadenza Music
Date:
2012
Score sample:
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Programme notes:
This piece is inspired by Amy Johnson's pioneering and record breaking flight to Australia in 1930. I have recently completed an opera about Amy, and this work uses and develops some of the themes from it. David Hockney's A Bigger PIcture exhibition, which includes paintings of Amy's home county, also provided inspiration. The title refers to a perfume that was named after Amy: one of many tributes to her success.
Performance notes:
Sarcanthus was commissioned by saxophonist Matt London and generously funded by an RVW Trust commission award.
Premiered by Matt London [saxophone] at the World Saxophone Congress XVI, St Leonards Auditorium, St Andrews July 2012.
Discography:
SPEAK NOW - Matt London [Matt London 2013]
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