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Performance by Antony Walker, The Song Company from the CD Selected compositions 1972-1990 |
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Score
The toadstools / composed by Freddie Hill ; words by Emil Campion.
Library shelf no. 783.165542/HIL 1 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
The opening and closing segments are a kind of "Devil's Motet" recalling my undergraduate studies of Palestrina. The central section is more of a 1930's jazz-cabaret style. There is an ironic quote from Fats Waller's "Honeysuckle Rose" in reference to the phallus-shaped Stinkhorn.
Work Details
Year: 1988
Instrumentation: Vocal ensemble: soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass.
Duration: 3 min.
Difficulty: Advanced
Dedication note: Emil Campion and Judith Harpur (partner b.1937 d.1987)
Commission note: Composed as a submission to the Song Company in 1988 as part of a composer's workshop at Sydney University.
Toadstools is a setting of a poem by Emil Campion (my uncle and Peter C.'s father) written in 1954 from the collection 'Now and Then'.
Revised 2007.
Performances of this work
24 Mar 12: Nordica Auditorium, University of Maine, Farmington Me. USA. Featuring Ear Candy.
8 Oct 88: Old Darlington School, Sydney University. Featuring Antony Walker, The Song Company.
8 Oct 88: Old Darlington School, Sydney University. Featuring The Song Company, Antony Walker.
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