Lavender for
Hanna
for solo piano
(2008)
duration: 2’
GRT • 136
audio sample
score available from
Australian Music
Centre
program note
Hanna Greenbaum
was born at 10:20am on 27 December 2007. As I did when her
brother Aksel was born, I took her up to the hospital
nursery and sang to her, the song in question this time
being Lavender’s
Blue. The
miniature which follows was written around a week after her
birth and is a relatively free series of variations with
octave displacements leading to a more overt
blues–influenced statement of the theme.