LeFanu WIND-BLOWN SEEDS

LEFANU

Wind-Blown Seeds

for String Orchestra

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Wind-Blown Seeds

for String Orchestra

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INSTRUMENTATION

Violins 1 (6 players)

Violins 2 (6 players)

Violas (4 players)

Cellos (4 players)

Basses (2 players, 2nd with C extension)

PERFORMANCE NOTE

High harmonics may be taken either at the scroll or near the bridge. There is a frequent motive of a harmonic glissando to the ninth harmonic. Players should direct the motive to this harmonic, ensuring that it sounds clearly.

Quartertones should be ﬁngered, not rolled, wherever possible.

PROGRAMME NOTE

Wind-blown Seeds was composed for the Arcos Orchestra and their director, John-Edward Kelly. It is in one continuous movement lasting around 14 minutes. The music grows from and around a chorale, which is mainly carried by the violas; as it expands in register it gradually moves into the rest of the orchestra until, in the coda, it evaporates and is only a memory.

The title comes from a poem by the Irish poet Kerry Hardie, which inspired my musical ideas. It is a poem about emigration, addressed to her brother in Brooklyn; but her imagery is of the French Huguenots who came to Ireland (as my ancestors did) bringing with them the seeds of their native ﬂora. Scattered along the way, the blooms remind us of all diasporas; of loss and displacement for some, fruitful assimilation for others.

Nicola LeFanu, January 2012

Duration c.14 minutes

First performance on 16th May 2012 at Temple Emanu-El, New York, with The Arcos Orchestra conducted by John-Edward Kelly

Nicola LeFanu

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Nicola LeFanu

Nicola LeFanu (b. 1947) studied at Oxford, the Royal College of Music and Harvard. She has composed more than a hundred works, which have been widely played, broadcast and recorded. She has been commissioned by the BBC (including the Proms), by festivals, and by leading orchestras, ensembles and soloists. LeFanu has an affinity for vocal music and has composed eight operas, which have been staged in the UK, Ireland and the USA. They include Dawnpath (1977), a children’s opera, The Green Children, (1990), Light Passing (2004), Dream Hunter (2011) and Tokaido Road (2014). She is active in many aspects of the music profession; from 1994 to 2008 she was Professor of Music at the University of York, UK.

Nicola LeFanu (*1947) studierte in Oxford und London sowie an der Harvard University. Ihr Schaffen umfasst mehr als hundert Werke, die regelmäßig aufgeführt, eingespielt und im Rundfunk übertragen werden. Kompositionsaufträge erhielt sie von der BBC (u.a. für die Proms), von diversen Festivals sowie von führenden Orchestern, Ensembles und Solisten. LeFanus besonderes Interesse gilt der Vokalmusik. Zu ihren bisher acht Opern, die in Großbritannien, Irland und den USA inszeniert wurden, zählen Dawnpath (1977), die Kinderoper The Green Children (1990), Light Passing (2004), Dream Hunter (2011) und Tokaido Road (2014). Daneben ist sie beruflich in vielen Bereichen des Musiklebens aktiv; so bekleidete sie von 1994 bis 2008 eine Professur für Musik an der Universität York (GB).

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