for Mezzo Soprano and Piano
Duration: 4′ 15″
£9
for mezzo soprano and piano
Sprinkling Sprinkles and Uneaten Cake is a song about parental love, joy in childhood, inevitability and growth. There is a prominent melancholic and bittersweet current throughout the piece, reflecting a parent’s emotions of love, occasional annoyance, care, and facing the inevitable growth of their child as well as their own growth. This piece will feel semi-improvised, especially for the pianist, whose task is to paint all the different colours of parenthood in a nonchalant way.
Transpositions available on request.
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Program Note
The challenge was to write a poem using the word bloom and naturally I went for writing about the people in my life I see “blossom and bloom”. And images of their whole life started coming to me. I remembered when they asked me not to go out one night and stay to play with them. Will I one day ask them to stay? Is it fair to ask that of them? Another memory came in — they begged me to bake a cake and put sprinkles on it. They spent 15 minutes shaking the bottle to have as many sprinkles on their cake as possible. The sprinkles went all around and they never ate the cake but were incredibly happy with the sprinkles nonetheless. And then came flashes of moments that haven’t happened yet.
£9
for mezzo soprano and piano
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