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When the Blue Rider Ensemble of Toronto asked me for a new piece, their vocalist, Anne Marie Donovan, sent me some Canadian poetry to consider setting.  I was immediately gripped by Michael Ondaatje's work, which was new to me.  As it happened, the day I discovered THE CINNAMON PEELER and called Anne Marie to tell her that this was the poem I had to set, I went to the supermarket, stood in line, and read all about Mr. Ondaatje's prize-winning novel, THE ENGLISH PATIENT, in NEWSWEEK and TIME.  Synchronicity strikes again.  During the following summer, I had the enormous pleasure of reading THE ENGLISH PATIENT while composing THE CINNAMON PEELER.  Heady pleasures indeed!

Not too much needs to be added in preparation to hearing the piece, beyond the suggestion that you read the poem through before listening to the music.  The music itself is cast in a single-movement dramatic scene of about 13 minutes duration.  I have tried at every moment to keep the vivid textural images clear, and to mirror them in the music.  While composing the piece, I imagined that it might be sung by candlelight, or by campfire, with a few strums on the cello to set the mood.  THE CINNAMON PEELER was composed from April to September, 1993. - -Donald Crockett

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