Victoria Bond
Peculiar Plants
Year: 2004
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano, solo instrument other than piano, solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: piano
Publisher: C.F. Peters
Description: I. Strangler Fig II. Venus Flytrap III. Deadly Nightshade IV. Blushing Violet V. Ragweed
Six musical portraits of colorfully weird, menacing plant…It takes a composer of Bond's skill to work them into a vivid picture, and a player of Cooper's caliber to make the most of it. Together they had the audience laughing out loud.
- The Villager. Premiered: 2004 Cutting Edge Concerts, NYC