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Cage of Gold is an instrumental version of an aria from the opera ‘Dorothea’, written for the Australian

Premieres Bicentennial Celebrations of 1988.  The opera is based on the life of Dorothea MacKellar, author of
Reviews ‘my country’, Australia’s best known poem.  This piece was originally a setting of MacKellar’s poem
Recordings ‘Japanese Song’ which describes a caged birds longing for freedom.  The pairs of repeated chords
Picture Gallery suggest the bars of a cage.  The bird laments its imprisonment, occasionally fluttering futilely.
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Programme notes by Alan Holley.

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Links Cage of Gold by Alan Holley was premiered on the 4th of September 2004 at the Music Auditorium,
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McKinnon Secondary College, McKinnon, Melbourne and next performed on the 5th of September at

Contact the Crows Nest Performing Arts Centre, Crows Nest, Sydney in concerts of all Australian music titled
  'The Australian Saxophone'  with Jason Xanthoudakis on Soprano Saxophone and Clemens Leske on
  Piano.

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