The Long Hibernation – (sax, perc, sop, pno, vln) performed by Ensemble Dal Niente 15’00”
The Long Hibernation is the story of an animal of indeterminate species that dies in her sleep. She is then lamented through a folk-song in an imaginary dialect of English (presumably the fictional folk-dialect of her species).
Excerpt: Rehearsal R (page 14) – Rehearsal Z (page 22)
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