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| Title | Sun Dances, The, Op 44 |
| Contributors |
John McLeod (composer) |
| Composition date | 2001 2001 |
| Duration (mins) | 0 |
| Category | orchestral |
| Instrumentation | 2(2)2(1)2(1)2(1) / 433+11 Timp 4 Perc Hp Pf (Cel) Str |
| Commissioned by | The National Youth Orchestra of Scotland with financial assistance from SAC. |
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| First performed | 03 01 2001 National Youth Orchestra of Scotland / Takuo Yuasa Usher Hall, Edinburgh |
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| Programme Note | The old inhabitants of the Cowal peninsula in the west of Scotland believed that the sun danced on Easter Sunday in joy for the risen Saviour. Old Barbara Macphie saw this only once during her long life. And this good woman, of sensitivity and high natural intelligence, described in poetic language and with religious fervour what she saw or believed she saw from the summit of Benmore: The glorious gold-bright sun was after rising on the crests of the great hills, and it was changing colour - green, purple, red, blood-red, white, intense-white, and gold-white, like the glory of God of the elements to the children of men. It was dancing up and down in exultation at the joyous resurrection of the beloved Saviour of victory. To be thus privileged, a person must ascend to the top of the highest hill before sunrise and believe that the God who makes the small blade of grass to grow is the same God who makes the large, massive sun to move. |
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