Score
Desperation : for viola solo / Helen Gifford ; copied and edited by Kim Bastin.
Library shelf no. 787.3/GIF 1 [Available for loan]
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Work Overview
"The nature of desperation is the idea behind this piece. A life may have many desperations. There are the small ones such as when the water company digs up the old main in your street over a four-week period, using pounding, drilling and roaring machines, while major desperations mark you more permanently and can have a calamitous effect that leaves you without hope. This sometimes leads to hyper-activity, or else its complete opposite, a paralysing numbness. Something of these two extremes, and the stages between, was my thinking for the work" -- Helen Gifford.
Work Details
Year: 2014
Instrumentation: Viola.
Written for: Phoebe Green
First performance: by Phoebe Green at Helen Gifford at 80 (Church of All Nations) on 19 Apr 2015
Performances of this work
12 Aug 2017: at Women in the Creative Arts - conference recitals (Larry Sitsky Recital Room, ANU School of Music). Featuring Phoebe Green.
5 Jun 2017: at ANAM Recital: Rachel Grimwood (Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM)). Featuring Rachel Grimwood.
31 Oct 2016: at Australian Voices - Helen Gifford (Melbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon). Featuring ANAM Musicians.
17 Apr 2016: at ASTRA: 1926/2016 (Church of All Nations). Featuring Phoebe Green.
11 Dec 2015: at Eighty Plus! (Church of All Nations). Featuring Phoebe Green.
27 Jun 2015: at Floof (Church of All Nations).
24 Apr 2015: at Amazing women 2 (Ian Hanger Recital Hall). Featuring Phoebe Green.
19 Apr 2015: at Helen Gifford at 80 (Church of All Nations). Featuring Phoebe Green.
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