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- Simon Holt
startled Grass (2001)
- Chester Music Ltd (World)
Commissioned by the BBC
Part 5 of the cycle 'a ribbon of time'
- hp/2perc
- 6S, 6A (with handbells)
- cello
- 11 min
- Emily Dickinson
- English
Programme Note
Startled Grass is scored for 6 sopranos, 6 altos (with an handbell each), 2 percussionists, harp and solo cello. It is a setting of the Emily Dickinson poem of ca. 1863:
Presentiment - is that long Shadow - on the Lawn
Indicative that Suns go down –
The Notice to the startled Grass
That Darkness - is about to pass -
The piece I consider to be a kind of coda to the cycle of 5 pieces I am writing to poetry of Emily Dickinson entitled "a ribbon of time”.
It is dedicated to the memory of Christopher van Kampen and lasts approximately 11 minutes.
© Simon Holt
Presentiment - is that long Shadow - on the Lawn
Indicative that Suns go down –
The Notice to the startled Grass
That Darkness - is about to pass -
The piece I consider to be a kind of coda to the cycle of 5 pieces I am writing to poetry of Emily Dickinson entitled "a ribbon of time”.
It is dedicated to the memory of Christopher van Kampen and lasts approximately 11 minutes.
© Simon Holt
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