Chechnya Story

Jewitt, Clement

Duration

20m 00s

Composed

1997

Instrumentation

Voices and Instruments

Scoring

trb, 2 perc, vns, vas, vcs, db, 2 female speakers

Availability

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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