Name: Please, Please Rain!!! by Robin Thomson Guitar Ensemble Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Robin Thomson
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Please, Please Rain!!!
by Robin Thomson Guitar Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title Please, Please Rain!!!

Artist Robin Thomson

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Arranger Robin Thomson

Composer Robin Thomson

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 49

Arrangement Guitar Ensemble

Publisher Robin Thomson

Level 4

Product ID 1788055

Genre Classical Contemporary 21st Century

Instruments Guitar

Product Description

At it's world premiere in the West Australian Academy of Perfoming Arts Richard Gill Auditorium in December 2024, Please, Please Rain!!! was chosen as the first prize winner of the 2024 Inaugural Duncan Gardiner Memorial Guitar Ensemble Competition from 8 other entries received from around Australia.
Please, Please Rain!!! depicts the daily plea of rural West Australians experiencing ever longer, hotter and drier summers.These climate change induced conditions dramatically increase the risk of late season fire on dry as a bone land as was evidenced on Anzac Day the 25th of April 2024 when an allegedly deliberately lit fire burned out thousands of hectares of pristine Walpole forest.
The piece depicts a myriad of tones and textures depicting the sounds of nature, the intensity of the elements, a panoply of emotions felt along with palpable fear.
Opening bird calls initiate a frustratingly long day filled with a chaotic mixture of sudden emotional changes ranging from fury to despair, resignation and tears as yet another day of relentless sun and rising temperatures is experienced with not a sign of rain forecast for still many more days.
The heat and stress is fleetingly interrupted when sudden wafts of cool air bring slightly distorted reminders of cooler less stressful times.
As the heat of the day recedes with the sun over the horizon a short mental recap of a trying day occurs as the cool relief of evening is welcomed.
The tuning of E A D G C F in 4ths for all the guitars producing sounds that are harmonically complex and unfamiliar is chosen to be purposefully discomforting for the listener in order that they might empathise with the feelings and experiences of their rural country folk.
It is however relatively easy to play with often only a single finger barre or half barre required.

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