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Fandango Returns! / music by Ann Carr-Boyd.

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Flying west : for recorder, cello and harpsichord / Ann Carr-Boyd.

Library shelf no. 785.2413/CAR 2 [Not for loan]

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Score & Part	Flying west : for recorder, cello and harpsichord / Ann Carr-Boyd. 1 score 26p. -- A4 (portrait)) and 2 parts Published by Wirripang — January, 2015 [979 0 720151 21 2] Library shelf no. 785.2413/CAR 2	Not for loan	$45.45	Add to cart
CD	Fandango Returns! / music by Ann Carr-Boyd. 2 CDs Published by Wirripang — 2018 [Wirr 090] Library shelf no. CD 2962	Not for loan	$POA
CD	Space Junk : music of space and time / Anne Carr-Boyd and Diana Blom. 1 CD Published by Wirripang — 2022 [WIRR 114] Library shelf no. CD 3301	Available for loan	$POA
CD	Flying west / music by Ann Carr-Boyd ; performed by Diana Weston and Thoroughbass. 2 CDs Published by Wirripang — 2015 [Wirr 066] Library shelf no. CD 2672	Not for loan	Non-Commercial

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Work Overview

The music is based on a poem by Diana Weston, who wrote about a day in the life of a flying doctor working at the Flying Doctor Service in Broken Hill, outback New South Wales. The centrepiece is the calming Wings from the Sky, a musical reflection of the welcome sight of the Flying Doctor plane when it appears out of the vast sky, its crew arriving to administer comfort and life-saving help.
Clinics are also held in outback towns and many patients have driven or flown a long way to one of these clinics and I have tried to picture the long day, the waiting, the hope, in the section named The Clinic. In Red Earth you may hear a familiar hymn - 'Onward Christian Soldiers' - included in honour of the Rev John Flynn, the Presbyterian minister who founded the Royal Flying Doctor Service on May 15th, 1928, in Cloncurry,
Queensland.

Work Details

Year: 2013

Instrumentation: Recorder, cello, harpsichord.

Duration: 10 min.

Contents note: Flying West -- Bumby Ride in a fast machine -- Interlude 1 -- Wings from the Sky -- Interlude 2 -- Red Earth -- The Clinic -- The Return (Interlude 2).

Dedication note: dedicated to the Royal Flying Doctor Service

Commission note: Commissioned by Diana Weston for performance by Thoroughbass.

First performance: by Thoroughbass at Flying West (Farnborough House) on 27 Jul 2014