Orakau

Bass & Orchestra

Work Details

Orakau
(1999)
WORK DURATION
13:45
AUTHOR
Leon Coad
LANGUAGE
English / Maori
WORK CODE
GF/OU
Instrumentation
solo B + 1+pic.2.2.1+cbn / 4.2.3.1 / timp.3perc / hp / cel / str
COMMISSION DETAILS
Jenny Gibbs
Premiere
Conal Coad (bass) and the Auckland University Orchestra (cond. Uwe Grodd) at the Auckland Town Hall, Auckland, New Zealand on 9 October 1999
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Orakau is a dramatic and evocative setting of the poem Dead Leaves of Orakau by Leon Coad, inspired by an heroic battle of the Māori Land Wars of the 19th century.