for viola and piano – no. 3
Hilary Sturt and John York
Three Island Tales 3more extracts available HERE
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Three Island Tales
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Odysseus Unwound
Opera in a prologue and 3 acts. 105′
Libretto by Hattie Naylor
first performed 10 October 2006, Alexandra Palace Theatre
Act 1 Scene 1: Nausicaa Tends Odysseus’ Wounds (lullaby)
Act 1 Scene 2: Odysseus demonstrates how to kill
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Heroes Don’t Dance
The story of a tormented teacher, George, responsible for an accident on a school trip, who receives help from within his own bookshelves. The story is played out to the background of a fancy dress ball.
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The Uninvited
A boy stumbles on a terrible secret, a suppressed underclass condemned to a ghostly life in London’s docklands.
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Jump Into My Sack
Opera in one act
Jump Into My Sack: The Fairy of Lake Creno
Jump Into My Sack: The Gambling Den
more extracts available HERE
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Great Game
for orchestra
3rd section (extract)Great Game – 3rd Section audio clip
An orchestral piece evocative
of Central Asian terrain: the title
refers to the power struggle
between British forces in India
and Tsarist Russia.Read programme note HERE
Salomon Orchestra
Paul Hoskins, conductormore extracts available HERE
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A Family Affair
A blistering comedy, based on Ostrovsky’s comedy, a scathing financial satire on the Russian upwardly mobile merchant class, in Nick Dear’s highly successful, profane and colloquial version.
more extracts available HERE
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The Queen of Sheba’s Legs
Solomon, a high-tech wizard summons the mysterious Queen of Sheba, to discover if all those snake or razor rumours are true.
