Visions from the Aboriginal Dreamtime composed in January of 2018 is scored for violin, clarinet and piano. The work is divided into four sections and is inspired by the creation legends of the Australian Aboriginals.
The Aboriginals believe that, in the beginning, the earth was featureless, flat and grey. There were no mountain ranges, rivers, billabongs, birds or animals - in fact not one living thing. Then long, long ago came the Dreamtime. The Dreamtime was a time when the ancestors rose up out of the grey plains where they had been slumbering for countless ages and sang every living thing into being. These mythical beings looked like animals or plants or insects, but they behaved just like humans. They wandered across the vast grey waste digging for water and searching for food and as they searched, because of their giant size, they made huge ravines and rivers in the land. Thus the world took on the shape it has today. The second section is a love song and the final part Corraboree.
