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Publisher
Year of Composition
2004
Duration
22'
Instrumentation
Solo harpsichord or piano (with optional narrator)
Categories
Keyboard Works
Movements
I. Strangler Fig
II. Venus Flytrap
III. Creeping Moss
IV. Blushing Violet
V. Deadly Nightshade
VI. Ghost Orchid
VII. Ragweed
Program Note
This botanically-inspired edition harmoniously includes the clever corresponding collaborative poems by Kenneth Cooper and the composer, along with the fantastical, decorative artwork of Lauren Wisbauer Nuzzi.
Audio/Video
Purchase Sheet Music
Commercial Recordings
Victoria Bond: Peculiar Plants (Albany Records)
Commission & Premiere Info
Premiered at Cutting Edge Concerts, NYC on April 1, 2004
Press Quotes
"Six musical portraits of colorfully weird, menacing plant…It takes a composer of Bond's skill to work them into a vivid picture, and a player of Cooper's caliber to make the most of it. Together they had the audience laughing out loud." — The Villager