Michael Blake
OLIVE SCHREINER for piano duet
Bardic Edition BDE1367
Olive Schreiner takes material from my very first piano duet Let us run out of the rain and recasts it in new ways, making reference perhaps to the absence of narrative in Schreiner's ground-breaking novel Story of an African Farm. lt was composed for the radical new music festival 'Music Breaks Free - Issues of Gender and Sexuality', fearlessly curated by Michael Finnissy - the work’s dedicatee - at the University of Sussex in 1995. I gave the first performance with Sally Rose, on 16 March 1995 at the Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton. Michael Blake, Brighton, 1995
Duration 7 minutes
Duration 7 minutes