All Those Ways of Leaving
for soprano, wind quartet and piano (2009)
duration: 21’
GRT • 142
score available from
Australian Music Centre
program note
These six interludes were written to be interspersed between a reading of Nick Earls’ short story, All Those Ways of Leaving. The interludes are also designed to be able to work on their own.
instrumentation in full
soprano
oboe
clarinet in Bb (doubling temple bell)
french horn in F (doubling triangle)
bassoon (doubling small ride cymbal)
piano
program order
I: The Golden Hair
oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, piano
II: Morphine
oboe, horn, bassoon, piano, temple bell
III: A Day Out
oboe, clarinet, piano, ride cymbal, triangle
IV: Leaving (it’s almost Summer)
clarinet, bassoon
V: Another Thing Finished
soprano, horn, piano
VI: The Golden Rope (escape)
full ensemble