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Deimos : for shakuhachi and harp / Cyrus Meurant.
Library shelf no. 785.4412/MEU 1 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
The title refers to the smaller and outer most of Mars' two moons (the other being Phobos). Deimos was the personification of dread in Greek mythology, the son of Ares and Aphrodite.
The formative ideas for the composition stemmed from the shakuhachi having been used as a basis for meditation, suggesting a subordinate, even symbiotic state.
My thanks to Anne Boyd for her encouragement and support throughout the composition process.
Work Details
Year: 2003
Instrumentation: Shakuhachi, harp. (Shakuhachi can be substituted with concert flute).
Duration: 6 min.
Difficulty: Advanced
Written for: Marshall McGuire, Riley Lee
First performance: by Riley Lee, Marshall McGuire — 2004. Sydney
Performances of this work
25 Oct 09: "Bamboo Related: A Concert of traditional, jazz and contemporary pieces for Shakuhachi", Tufts University, Distler Performance Hall – Granoff Music Centre Medford MA, USA. Featuring Elizabeth Reian Bennett, Franziska Huhn.
8 Jul 08: World Shakuhachi Festival, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Featuring Sugawara Kuniyoshi, Clare McDonogh.
2004: Sydney. Featuring Riley Lee, Marshall McGuire.
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