La Huppe
Terri Hron, Robert Normandeau
Programme notes
The title of this piece, “the hoopoe,” comes from the bird that plays the main character in The Conference of the Birds (1177) by the Persian writer Farid ud-Din Attar (ca 1130-ca 1240). I composed this piece for Terri Hron’s project Bird on a Wire II
[xi-11]
Premiere
- June 14, 2011, Terri Hron, recorder
; Juan Parra Cancino, diffusion • EMS11 — sforzando! : Concert 1, Greenwich House Music School, New York City (New York, USA)
- Composer(s): Terri Hron, Robert Normandeau
- Year of composition: 2011
- Duration: 6:35
- Instrumentation: recorder, processing and 8-channel fixed medium
