Score
Burns Brightly : for percussion quartet / Peggy Polias.
Library shelf no. 785.6814/POL 2 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
"There was once a little girl who was obstinate and inquisitive..." This is the opening of the fairytale "Frau Trude" (Grimm 43), an eventful yet very compact story of barely a page long. It ends sadly for the little girl, while the sinister Trude wins out in this tale. This hits a nerve with my experiences as a woman, grappling with social conditioning of compliance, politeness, sheltering. Burns Brightly celebrates the little girl who disobeys, and the witch, and every state of being in between. It is a blossoming of the self despite pressures to conform to external expectations.
Work Details
Year: 2025
Instrumentation: Percussion 1 (vibraphone, tam-tam), percusison 2 (vibraphone, bass drum), percussion 3 (Marimba, suspended cymbal), percussion 4 (marimba, tom-tom).
Duration: 4 min.
Commission note: Commissioned by Canberra Symphony Orchestra.. Commissioned by Canberra Symphony Orchestra as one of three new works as Composer in Connection for 2025.
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