Trumpet a warning
Mar 15, 2020
3 minutes
by Elizabeth Kerr
omposer Eve de Castro-Robinson’s new work, , is a call to arms. A chamber concerto for trumpet, it sounds a strident warning about the global climate emergency while lamenting what is already lost. Written for Scotland-based New Zealand trumpet virtuoso Bede Williams, and including conch shells fashioned as pūtātara by Williams to take the message “across the oceans”, it had its world premiere at the University of St Andrews last month. Its New Zealand premiere is
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