A work composed for Finnish wind quintet Idée Fixe on the request of the group's clarinetist, Reetta Naatanen, who visited New Zealand late in 2004 and stayed with me in Wellington. E pari, e te tai translates as tide, flow on, a title that assumed a dark irony when, shortly after completion of the work, the Boxing Day Tsunami struck in the Indian Ocean.

My first no-show at a premiere, for obvious reasons!

Picture at right: Idée Fixe with the score. Left to right: Otto (bsn), Elina (fl), Juha (ob), Reetta (cl) and Jukka (hn).