- Charles T. Griffes
The White Peacock (1919)
- G Schirmer Inc (World)
- 2222/2220/timp.perc/cel.2hp/str
- 6 min
- 22nd February 2024, Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, Costa Mesa, CA, United States of America
- 23rd February 2024, Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, Costa Mesa, CA, United States of America
Programme Note
Inspired by William Sharp’s poem of the same title, Griffes wrote that this piece “pictures a wonderful garden filled with gorgeous color, where a white peacock moves about slowly as the soul and breadth of all this beauty.” The music is intensely chromatic and marked by an impassioned Debussyan Impressionism.
Media
The White Peacock
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