22 Feb 2022

Jenny McLEOD: Clouds

From Music Alive, 8:02 pm on 22 February 2022

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Performed by NZTrio at their concert, 'Dramatic Skies: Cumulus', Auckland Concert Chamber, 16 November 2021.

NZTrio - Somi Kim, Ashley Brown, Amalia Hall

NZTrio - Somi Kim, Ashley Brown, Amalia Hall Photo: Jen Raoult

As is her custom these days, Jenny McLeod's programme note is in the form of a self-written poem:

cumulus?

not so much
white fluffy puffy
as here there
high bright low
wild, raggedy
dense, dark, hymnic
calmo, agitato
with a bit of cirro-
cumulo-nimbo-stratus
thrown in
           more like
McLeody sort of clouds ...

The piece has five sections: 'Scudding'; 'High Above'; 'The Dark Beneath'; 'Misty Within'; and 'Storm with Raindrops'.

Recorded by RNZ Concert, Auckland Concert Chamber, 16 November 2021
Producer: Tim Dodd; Engineer: Adrian Hollay

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