| Composer: | Cheryl Frances-Hoad |
| Duration: | 09:30 |
| Difficulty: | Difficult: approx diploma/professional |
| Publisher: | Cadenza Music |
| Date: | 2012 |
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| Programme notes: | This piece is inspired by Amy Johnson's pioneering and record breaking flight to Australia in 1930. I have recently completed an opera about Amy, and this work uses and develops some of the themes from it. David Hockney's A Bigger PIcture exhibition, which includes paintings of Amy's home county, also provided inspiration. The title refers to a perfume that was named after Amy: one of many tributes to her success. |
| Performance notes: | Sarcanthus was commissioned by saxophonist Matt London and generously funded by an RVW Trust commission award.
Premiered by Matt London [saxophone] at the World Saxophone Congress XVI, St Leonards Auditorium, St Andrews July 2012. |
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