Still waiting to get a performance of my first, complete orchestral piece "She is Warm". Based on Shakespeare's Winters Tale it is two hours of play condensed into 6 minutes of music.

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The play has the usual kings, nobles, black deeds, rogues, clowns and lovers. The central theme of the music is towards the end of the play where miserable old King Leontes is shown a statue of his dead wife whom he believed he had caused the death of some sixteen years ago. The statue "magically" comes to life and walks towards him. At first afraid, he touches it and exclaims "Oh, she is warm"!

Shakespeare doesn't explain how this miracle has happened but reading between the lines it is clear that his wife has been in hiding all these years waiting for Leontes to do something good (which he does by re-uniting with his lost friend, the King of Bohemia, and helping his friend's son marry the daughter of a shepherd who turns out to be Leontes' daughter abandoned as a baby. Typical Shakespeare).

I will post the score once I am happy with it at the performance.

April 2014