Music
Shadows cross the water
For oboe, piano and string quartet
The first performance of this work, then called Tamariki, was given by the Stamic Quartet with Vilém Veverka (oboe) and Patricia Goodson (piano) in Prague on 9 December 2014.
About the work
2014 marked the 70th anniversary of the arrival of New Zealand’s first refugees, more than 700 Polish children who were cared for at a specially prepared camp in Pahīatua north of Wellington. The anniversary led me to consider the terrible and dislocating movement of children in times of war.
As I wrote this piece, 2 significant and dear friends – Peter Maxwell Davies and Jack Body – were terminally ill, so there are many interpretations of the title — which was taken from a Greg O’Brien poem.
Score and recording
Buy or borrow the score from SOUNZ.
Shadows cross the water — SOUNZ
A recording, released by Rattle CDs, can be bought from SOUNZ and all good record stores.