Floreana

Floreana (2009) for soprano, piccolo, flute, clarinet, harp, viola, cello, harp, percussion

ca. 7’

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Commissioned by Peter Godfrey-Smith and Jane Sheldon as the final movement in The Origin Cycle, setting the concluding remarks of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species.

Premiered by Firebird Ensemble with Jane Sheldon, soprano, and Jeffrey Means, conductor, Museum of Natural History, Harvard University, April 28, 2009, with further performances at Stanford University, Halifax Nova Scotia, Canberra and Sydney

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