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composer: Gavin Bryars
author of original text: Etel Adnan

for soprano and ensemble

text from 'Love Poems' by Etel Adnan

Dedication: for Jane Quinn and Martin Duignan
Premiere: July 20, 1996 London, Almeida Theatre (UK) · Valdine Anderson, soprano · Gavin Bryars Ensemble
Orchestra instrumentation: bcl(cl)-egtr(gtr)-str(0.0.2.1.1 or 0.0.6.4.2)
Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Duration: 38' 0''
Year of composition: 1995/1996
Edition: performance material
Language: English
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Two Lines

No. 5 (original version) was first performed by Mary Weigold and the Composers Ensemble at the ICA, London on 8 November 1992. Nos. 1 & 2 were first broadcast as part of the BBC's 'Fairest Isle' series by Sarah Leonard and an ensemble directed by Gavin Bryars.

I 'I had a gypsy with Indian silver all over her body'
II 'The sun came in'
III 'I went to the drugstore to sell my pain'
IV 'No one asked you to be an angel of fear'
V 'You are a white cloud coming down my spine'
VI 'You are under my hands a piece of fire'
VII 'White as the unfolded tree'
VIII 'My hand on your hand'