The Devil Made Me Do It (The Hansie Song) (2000)
for solo piano
Dedicated to Trevor Steele Taylor
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Published in: Collected Shorter Piano Pieces Vol 3 (forthcoming)
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
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In June 2000 I came across a curious report in the newspaper about the South African cricket captain who had been embroiled in a max-fixing scandal. When the reckoning came though, he blamed it on the devil, claiming: "In a moment of stupidity and weakness I allowed Satan and the world to dictate terms to me. The moment I took my eyes off Jesus, the whole world turned dark. I made four distillations of the old gospel hymn 'In times like these, we need an anchor' and superimposed them in all possible combinations, finishing with Ivesian-like coda.
for solo piano
Dedicated to Trevor Steele Taylor
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Published in: Collected Shorter Piano Pieces Vol 3 (forthcoming)
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Duration:
Programme note
In June 2000 I came across a curious report in the newspaper about the South African cricket captain who had been embroiled in a max-fixing scandal. When the reckoning came though, he blamed it on the devil, claiming: "In a moment of stupidity and weakness I allowed Satan and the world to dictate terms to me. The moment I took my eyes off Jesus, the whole world turned dark. I made four distillations of the old gospel hymn 'In times like these, we need an anchor' and superimposed them in all possible combinations, finishing with Ivesian-like coda.
