Work Details

• Year: 1992
• Instrumentation: Cello.
• Duration: 7 min.
• Dedication note: Dedicated toStuart Challender
• Commission note: Commissioned byAustralian Broadcasting Corporation.
• First performance: byDavid Pereira 20 Dec 91. Stuart Challender Memorial Service, Sydney Town Hall

Peter Joshua Sculthorpe AO OBE was an Australian composer. Much of his music resulted from an interest in the music of Australia’s neighbours as well as from the impulse to bring together aspects of native Australian music with that of the heritage of the West.