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Instrumentation: Oboe
Duration: 4'
First Performance: 17th September 1999, St Nicholas’ Chruch, Deptford. Performed by Julian West with sculpture by Victoria Rance and choreography by Clare Whistler.
Commissioned By: Part of the 1999 DeptfordX Festival.
A Sea-Green Partridge of April is based on an Albanian lament of the same name - Një thëllëzë e shkrar prilli. A husband laments the death of his beautiful wife, the “sea-green partridge of April”. Her death “turned off” the lights in his house; his life became dark; his heart and soul are broken.
This fantasy takes the form of a set of variations based around the the harmony of song.
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