Replies the Hoopoe, by Gerardo Dirie
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Summary Extended Description   CMP 1482 Duet for oboe and bassoon. Grade 5. Approx. duration: four minutes. Set consists of a score and two parts. This lively, loquacious piece for oboe and bassoon was inspired by the active lines of Charlie Parker’s ”Yardbird Suite“ (1946), and reimagined as a score for the Persian story of ”The Conference of Birds“ (Simurgh). In this Sufi fable, a gathering of all birds, still without a sovereign, ask the Hoopoe, the wisest amongst them, who should be their king. This well-known story from the “Mantiq-ut-Tayr,“ was titled from a line in the Qur‘an (27:16) in which King Solomon exclaims, “O people, we have been taught the language of birds…” For more by this composer... ... click here to go to Gerardo's composer page.

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