Speak of the North (soprano, violin, piano)

Instrumentation: soprano, violin, & piano

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PROGRAMME NOTE

Speak of the North is a song cycle about place, landscape, borderlands, idenGty, andbelonging. Set to poems by a range of Northern poets such as the Brontë sisters, MichaelSymmons Roberts, Zoe Mitchell, Tony Williams, Katrina Porteous, and KaGe Hale, the cyclelooks at what it means to be Northern. With songs about the Peak District, Manchester asseen from above, coal mining landscapes, an argument between Hadrian’s wall and thesycamore gap tree, and some Northumbrian folk songs, Speak of the North is a sprawlingjourney through both the physical and imagined landscape of Northern England.

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