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Scoring:
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composition
Nine Poems from "Meeting the Comet" : for countertenor or mezzo-soprano and piano / Ross James Carey; poems by Fleur Adcock
Other authors:
Adcock, Fleur
(Text writer/Librettist)
Carey, Ross James
(Composer)
Description:
Nine Poems from ‘Meeting the Comet’ is a setting of nine poems by New Zealand born, U.K. resident poet Fleur Adcock, from her set of twenty-four poems, 'Meeting the Comet'. These describe a young girl with a disability and her encounter with Halley's Comet, as seen in the skies from New Zealand in the 1980s. The setting is of poems number 3, 6, 9 ‘So far’, 11 ‘Stars’, 14 ‘Comet’, 15 ‘Halley party’, 18, 22 and 24.