Audio Sample
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Performance by Sydney Symphony Orchestra, John Hopkins from the CD Black sun |
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Work Details
Year: 1989
Instrumentation: Piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 tenor trombones, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, percussion (2 players), harp, strings.
Duration: 15 min.
Dedication note: In memory of the Beijing students.
Commission note: Commissioned by San Francisco Bay Area Women's Philharmonic.
A testimony to the young lives that were lost in the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.
Analysis
Program note: Anne Boyd's "Black Sun"
by Anne Boyd
Source: the score of this work
Article: Orchestrated coincidence in Black Sun's timing / by Peter Cochrane.
Subjects
- Has as subject/About: Anti-War
- Has as subject/About: Asian culture
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