Work
Nine Poems from "Meeting the Comet"
for countertenor and guitar
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About
Nine poems selected from the set of twenty-four making up Fleur Adcock's collection Meeting the Comet, a tale of a differently-abled young girl and her quest to follow Halley's Comet via telescopes in the crater of Auckland's Mt. Albert; along the way recollecting seeing glow worms as a child and detailing the growing pangs of her path to adulthood. The poetic text and musical accompaniment are closely linked, as I often used the former to realise the latter through a process of musical transliteration.
Commissioned note
Composed for Yatsugatake Kogen Music Festival 1999, Japan at the request of Keiko Fujiie, Festival Director
Dedication note
Brian Queenin
Contents note
- Poem 3
- Poem 6
- Poem 9 – So far
- Poem 11 – Stars
- Poem 14 – Comet
- Poem 15 – Halley Party
- Poem 18
- Poem 22
- Poem 24
Text note
Poems by Fleur Adcock published by Bloodaxe Books Ltd