Performed by the Donizetti Trio - Luca Manghi (flute), Ben Hoadley (bassoon), David Kelly (piano) - at a concert of New Zealand woodwind music, University of Auckland Music Theatre, 15 May 2015.
Early morning on Grand Canal in Venice Photo: Vladimir Korolkov, ex Wikimedia Commons CC4.0
Gillian Whitehead wrote Venetian Mornings as a remembrance of a time in the 1960s when she met a dear friend for the first time.
They both attended a performance of Peter Maxwell Davies’ group, The Pierrot Players. It was a very humid evening and continuous distant rumblings of thunder as they went into the concert hall led eventually to a huge storm.
As they left the hall, they discovered Venice had been cut off from the world; a tornado had come out of the sea, overturned a ferry and destroyed a camping ground. A number of people had been killed.
In the following days, the two new friends met for breakfast each morning.
Recorded by RNZ Concert, University of Auckland Music Theatre, 15 May 2015.
Producer: Tim Dodd
Engineers: Tim Dodd, Alex Baron
