Chechnya Story
Jewitt, Clement
About the work
The piece sets a text by Olivia Ward in which a narrator describes how a girl from a Chechen village joins the guerrillas fighting the Russians, and how her village and her family are eventually destroyed.
Technical notes
The piece requires two speakers, one a narrator, and the other to play the part of a Chechen woman. The percussion required consists of xylophone, chimes, bass drum, and tenor drum