Length / Year
5' / 1994

Instrumentation
arr. for harp by Elinor Bennett and the composer

Performance History
European Premiere
Vagnera Sale, Riga, Latvia
22nd September 2001
Catrin Finch - harp

Subsequent Performances
Music Fest, Aberystwyth
21st July 2001
Catrin Finch - harp

Greynog Hall, Newtown, Wales
14th October 2001
Catrin Finch - harp

Programme Note
The literary fragment A Report to an Academy by Kafka is one of his most capricious yet powerful inventions. It tells the story of a man who only five years ago was an ape and who in that time has raced through the evolutionary process. Inspired by this idea I have written a 75 minute opera which receives its premiere this summer in Canada. In the opera the principal character goes out for the evening with a woman and at the end of the evening while they are both dozing on the sofa of her apartment he dreams of his jungle past . . .

I have transcribed this short dance from the opera for the harp with typically generous technical and imaginative help from Elinor Bennett and it receives its first performance tonight in this version.

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