Across a clear blue sky

(2009)

(after Seamus Heaney's poem 'Horace and the Thunder')

Composer
Date Composed
2009
Instrumentation
2 vn va vc [analogue radios, drummer toys]
Ensemble
String quartet, two portable analogue radios and four wind-up drummer toys
String
Duration
8 min
Commissioned By
RTÉ for the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet on the occasion of Seamus Heaney's 70th birthday.
Premiere Information
13 April 2009. Baroque Chapel, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin.
Performers
RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet.