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    • Sally Beamish

    • Words for my Daughter (1996)

    • Peters Edition Limited (World)

    Commissioned by Young Artists Trust. First performed by Emily Beynon (fl) and Elizabeth Burley (pf), Malvern Festival, 1996.

    • fl + pf
    • Flute
    • 8 min

    Programme Note

    I first heard ‘Words for my Daughter’ by Janet Paisley at a reading on National Poetry Day 1995. I had my nine-day-old daughter with me and it made a profound impression. Shortly afterwards I wrote the flute and piano piece, which is in effect a free setting of the poem. It was commissioned by Young Concert Artsts Trust for Catherine Beynon and Elizabeth Burley.