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Explico Algunas Cosas<br />
<strong>John</strong> <strong>Gourlay</strong><br />
Orchestra<br />
Composed 2005<br />
This short orchestral piece takes its title from the poem of the same name by the Peruvian<br />
poet Pablo Neruda. In the ‘thirties Neruda spent some time in Spain and in “I’m Explaining<br />
A Few Things” he expressed his reaction to the horrors of the civil war in which he lost<br />
many friends. The music reflects the poem’s form which first gently describes the beauty<br />
of Spain, but ends by declaiming “Come and see the blood in the streets!”<br />
The piece was written for Fife Youth Orchestra and their conductor, Graeme Wilson<br />
who gave it five performances in Lochgelly, Dunfermline, St. Andrews, Edinburgh<br />
and Glasgow during their 2005-2006 season.
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