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Sheet Music: ScoreThe Blue gum forest : for a cappella SATB choir and bass baritone soloist / Matthew Orlovichby Matthew Orlovich (2009)
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The Blue Gum Forest is a setting of Roland Robinson's
poem of the same name.
The work comprises four sections. The opening, broad style of
music is intended to convey a sense of the 'out-of-doors'. The
choir eludes to the poet's ever-questioning nature, singing 'Why
do I stand here, stare about me?' The bass baritone describes how
the poet clung, clambered and crashed his way down sheer gorge's
walls to find the forest.
Emerging from forest birdsong, the second section presents a
rhythmic and melodious music. The choir sings of the naked smooth
blue gums whose limbs overarch and, "lost in height, mingle in
myriad tongues".
In the third section of the work, the choir and soloist tread
slowly beneath the trees, 'long desiring', 'long-looking' at the
lichens, moss and ochre-red fungi, before sinking into pungent
mould.
The calls of Laughing Kookaburras herald the final section of the
work in which the choir and soloist sing of the blue-grey pipes
'soaring to their arches that lull, linger, leave off, then
swell, hail, all hail in hosannas, in hosannas.'
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score (82p. -- A4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 15 mins
First performance by June Tyzack, Christopher Richardson at Intervarsity Choral Festival Gala (Stanley Burbury Theatre) on 17 Jul 2009
Includes program note, performance directions and text of original poem.
Typeset edition.
ISMN: 979-0-67309-496-3
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