Lonely Hearts
(2005)
Three songs
Text: Christie Dickason
SSAA with harp or piano accompaniment
duration: 8'
1. Autumn Migration 2. Night Garden 3. Would like to meet
Gemini Publications
First performance 19 June 2005
City of Canterbury Chamber Choir/Ruth Potter (harp)/George Vass
St Mary's Church, Chilham, Kent
| Lonely Hearts is a setting of three poems by the novelist, Christie Dickason, each offering a different view of being alone. The first song, Autumn Migration, describes the flight of a flock of birds across the sky pursued by a 'single late flyer' stitching 'together earth and sky'. The second song, Night Garden, beautiful and atmospheric, evokes the delicate fragrance of a still, summer's evening in which 'lives too small to risk the light' bravely begin to stir. The final, witty song, Would like to meet, presents a 'Lonely Hearts' column, with a difference. |