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"Rebecca Harrison's The Humble-Bee is a fairly straight-forward work, involving a good deal of humming in bee-buzz-like fashion".
- OPERA OPERA David Gyger
Biography: Rebecca Harrison
Rebecca Harrison attended the Special Interest Music program at Brighton Secondary School and has recently completed a Bachelor of Music Studies at the University of Adelaide. She has received several South Australian Young Composers awards and a Fellowship of Australian Composers prize. Last year, one of her works was performed in the Musica Viva Ménage series, and in 2007 Harrison participated in the composition program at National Music Camp. Harrison is currently studying for an Honours degree in composition as well as teaching clarinet and violin.
Text: The Humble-Bee
Burly dozing humble bee,
Where you are is clime for me.
Let them sail for Porto Rique,
Far-off heats through seas to seek,
I will follow alone,
You animated torrid zone!
Hear it drone!
Zigzag steerer, desert cheerer,
Let me chase your waving line;
Come nearer,
Keep me nearer,
Me your hearer,
Singing over shrub and vine.
Insect lover of the sun,
Joy of your dominion!
Sailor of the atmosphere;
Swimmer through waves of air;
Voyager of light and noon;
Epicurean, this voyager of June;
Wait, I pray, until I come
Within earshot of your hum.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882)
