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Spectrum: No. 2, Orange - by Sally Whitwell

2. Orange (torch song) Text and music by Sally Whitwell Down the twisting staircase Cascading auburn curls Fire in the eyes Penetrates your disguise Russet fur unfurled. Ochre road to burning sun Does not lead where you think. Are you thirsting for the new, A sour, acidic drink, So piquant you salivate For it’s acrid ginger bite? This glowing sphere absorbed the sun. Go on, sip that burning light! I’m fast falling into flames Can’t you hear me scream? Scorching, blistering I didn’t know it was her scheme To send me to this purgatory My very soul combusts For one delicious moment Of lewd luxurious lust. But don’t think her self destructive For the Phoenix legend’s true She’ll be kindled in the ashes A spirit thus renewed. Spectrum (2020) Music by Sally Whitwell (she/her), Text by Sally Whitwell and Monique Duval (she/her) As a composer, I feel I always need to be working. I like to work on my skills, on my composing craft, on keeping the creative ideas flowing. So occasionally I set myself assignments, which is how this song cycle Spectrum came to be. The first song I composed, Yellow, was originally commissioned by Annie Kwok for her students at Brighton Secondary School, Adelaide. I loved the way their chosen text by Monique Duval actually sounded like the colour yellow. I’m synaesthetic and D major sounds yellow to me, so I set the text in that key. It then occurred to me that setting myself a composing assignment of interpreting the colours of the rainbow flag might be a nice idea. Because, I am so gay. The cycle is not actually LGBTQ+ themed in subject matter, the flag was just a kind of framework for my creativity. The first movement, Red was inspired by an animated video of red blood-cells coursing down an Artery. Orange (Torch Song) was loosely inspired by my love of TV screenwriter Denis Potter’s magic realism, and heralds the sudden arrival of a 1930’s redhead femme fatale. It’s since been reworked for my second stage musical Fairytale Derail. Yellow is a setting of a joyous poem by Monique Duval about getting caught in a sun shower on the beach. Green was inspired by a beautiful day spent with my partner Glennda and our excellent friend, and composer Stephen Leek. He took us to see the centuries old trees in the rainforest of Liffey Falls, Tasmania. Blue was inspired by an early summer walk around the cliffs surrounding Sydney’s Coogee Beach. Purple (The Aubergine Queen) was loosely inspired by the pageantry and downright lies of the USA presidential campaigns. I get the feeling that many Americans secretly love the idea of monarchy, so they attempt to recreate the grandeur of those traditions and kind of, well, fail​. – ‪@tigerfishgirl‬