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Simoon, Erik Chisholm

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Simoon

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Erik Chisholm

"The Simoon--the violent, hot wind that blows in the North African desert--gives its name to August Strindberg's psychological drama, published in 1889 and later described by the Glaswegian composer Erik Chisholm as 'exciting and frightening.' Third in a triptych of operas which the composer wrote after his move to South Africa in the late 1940s, his adaptation of Strindberg's play evokes the desert setting through a blend of the Hindustani scales he had studies in wartime India and a skilful use of free twelve-tone technique, but was never performed with orchestra in his own lifetime"--Container

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