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The Mystery of Boranup

Judith Bingham

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Piece length: 2' 30
Scored for: Piano, Violin, Viola (or Violin 2), Cello

I was in Western Australia and spent time walking in the great forest of Boranup: mile after mile of karri trees with their ghostly white trunks and lacy canopies. Occasionally you glimpse a kangaroo looking at you, then bounding easefully away.

This piece tries to capture the way such a forest appears to live as one great ancient organism where Man has only a transient, alien part. The strings imitate a didgeridu sound and rhythm, and the piano rises and falls in sixths, seldom going above middle C.

Judith Bingham

This idea could have far reaching effects on the relationship between performer and composer - Judith Weir
- Judith Weir

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