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