Work
La Nina
for piano
About
La Nina was written as a companion piece to El Nino, and was written during the summer of 1998/99 when the La Nina weather pattern affected New Zealand. While the main impetus of the work centres around a musical argument, there is also a loose correlation between the musical material, and the intense, oppressive and consistent heat of the La Nina weather patterns as it affected the east coast of the South Island. I would like to thank Judith Clark (whose request for a small piano work that might be suitable for her piano students at the School of Music, University of Canterbury initiated El Nino) for her unwavering support of New Zealand Music.
Commissioned note
Written at the request of Judith Clark