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In July 1990 I was staying at the conductor Norman Del Mar's house in Millook
on the north coast of Cornwall, finishing my large orchestral piece
The Music of Dawn.
Each evening there were spectacular sunsets, and I used to go up on the cliff
to paint them in watercolours.
The Music of Dawn is concerned with the sun in
all its aspects, and I am sure that these paintings assisted the compositional
process: the one above was painted on 15th July, and next morning I wrote the music
you can see and hear, in its final orchestral form, on the website
introduction page.
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