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a Composition:

 

2006:

weight/ Stop (Susanna)

a short piece for 14 instrumentalists and 3 singers about waiting at a Bus Stop

for Orkest de Ereprijs , January 2006

 

Listen extract 1:

Listen extract 2:

(performed by Orkest de Ereprijs)

 

The text comprises the following 24 ‘words':

Jay                         Vee

You                         Ee

En                               Em

Ee                               Be

Two                         Ee

Five                         Are(Ah)

One                         Two

Eight                         One

Nine                         Two

Six                               Zer-Oh

En                               Zer-Oh

Oh                               Five

These literally spell out:

J-U-N-E   25,   1896    ---    N-O-V-E-M-B-E-R   21,   2005

[the birth and death dates of Alfred Anderson, the last of the Old Contemptibles ]