Bunny Rabbits, in memory of my grandmother, for harp and orchestra (mp3) by Octava Chamber Orchestra Digital Audio for Full Performance Audio at Sheet Music Direct

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From the Delian Suite No 8 Letters to Eternity
This project was started in 2014 (the tenth anniversary of the Delian Society Suites) and the world premiere was performed on 30 January 2016
by the Octava Chamber Orchestra.

My part in Letters to Eternity was Bunny Rabbits

This "letter" to my grandmother is a recollection of her final years in the 1970s.

She suffered from Parkinsons and became very frustrated with the fact that her body simply didn't follow the commands of her brain. But she was always a very
polite, gentle and yet determined person - others in this situation might have used swear words, but, when she found herself immobilised, my gran would simply shout "Bunny Rabbits!".

This would make us laugh and she would laugh along with us.

The frustration is represented in the music by the Delians melodic fragment DEFGEDE (in the D Dorian mode) interrupted by the timpani, and eventually other instruments, repeating the frustrated "bunny rabbits" theme.

Finally - following her Christian beliefs, her soul goes up to an afterlife in which she is released from the frustration and the bunny rabbits, who have a final grumble on brass and timpani and give way to an ethereal minor chord with a major sixth, as suggested by the Dorian mode.

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