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Alan Holley - Cage of Gold
for Soprano Saxophone and Piano |
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Cage
of Gold is an instrumental version of an aria from the opera ‘Dorothea’,
written for the Australian |
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Bicentennial Celebrations of 1988. The opera is based on the life of
Dorothea MacKellar, author of |
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‘my
country’, Australia’s best known poem. This piece was originally a
setting of MacKellar’s poem |
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‘Japanese Song’ which describes a caged birds longing for freedom. The
pairs of repeated chords |
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suggest the bars of a cage. The bird laments its imprisonment,
occasionally fluttering
futilely. |
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Alan Holley. |
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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 |
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the Crows Nest Performing Arts
Centre, Crows Nest, Sydney in concerts of all Australian music titled
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'The
Australian Saxophone' with Jason
Xanthoudakis on Soprano Saxophone and Clemens Leske on |
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Piano. |