The Crantock Gulls

Andrew Ford

General Info

Year: 2004
Duration: c. 8:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Australia
Cost: Score and Parts - $0.00   |   Score Only - $0.00

Instrumentation

Player I: 5 Drums
Player II: 5 Drums

Program Notes

For 2 drummers, each with five drums
First performance by Match Percussion (Daryl Pratt & Alison Eddington)
Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, 23 March 2005

In 2003, with my permission, Daryl Pratt and Alison Eddington of Match Percussion made a duo version of my solo drumming piece, Composition in Blue, Grey and Pink (1993), and played it on an Australian tour. Later the same year, Kevin Man and Kerryn Joyce of Karak Percussion played their own duo version of the same piece. I never heard either arrangement, but I can take a hint.

I began this piece one rainy day in July 2004 in the tiny coastal village of Crantock in Cornwall, where the seagulls are unusually vociferous and squawk in polymetres. I was there on holiday with my parents who were celebrating their 50 th wedding anniversary, and the piece is dedicated to them.

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