Work Details
Year: 2003
Instrumentation: Mezzo-soprano, guitar (classical and steel-string).
Duration: 15 min.
Difficulty: Advanced — Professional
Contents note: Spell against sorrow -- Statues -- On a deserted shore.
Dedication note: ...written in tribute to the musicians Deborah Kayser and Geoffrey Morris
Setting of three poems by Kathleen Raine.
Mezzo-soprano part has a range that extends well beyond that of a normal mezzo-soprano.
Analysis
Program note: Helen Gifford's "Spell Against Sorrow"
© Helen Gifford
Source: Produced for and provided by Melbourne Composer's League
Performances of this work
Unknown date: featuring Deborah Kayser, Geoffrey Morris.
15 Sep 2015: at Halcyon: Ditties (Wyselaskie Auditorium). Featuring Ken Murray, Jenny Duck-Chong.
9 May 2014: at Women's Work (Recital Hall East). Featuring Halcyon.
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