Seven Face Pictures

Seven Face Pictures is a setting of Caroline Bird’s ‘Facial’, a cycle of wonderfully evocative poetic vignettes, each based on a different feature. Each movement is strongly characterised, from the solemn prayer of ‘Eyes’ to the strong rhythmic profile of ‘Lips’ and the acceleration/deceleration vortex of ‘Nose’. The structure is symmetrical, with the instrumental texture thinning out towards the middle, leaving just the lone voice to sing the central movement.

Instrumentation:

mezzo soprano, flute & cello

Duration:

13 mins

Performances:

14 October 2014

Trio Atem

St Ann’s Church, Manchester, UK
 

2 June 2013

Trio Atem

Nip & Tipple, Manchester, UK
 

3 February 2012

Trio Atem

Bridgewater Hall Foyer, Manchester, UK

 

4 November 2011

Members of Opera Viscera

Birmingham Conservatoire Recital Hall, Birmingham, UK

 
7 October 2011

Trio Atem

International Anthony Burgess Institute, Manchester, UK

 

13 January 2011

Trio Atem

Cosmo Rodewald Hall, Manchester, UK

World premiere