Question

"And longed for another existence". What is another existence that Eleanor Farjeon longed for?

Answer 1

Explanation:

This setting of the poem by Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965) was written for a CD project being undertaken by soprano Morag Atchison. With the CD including works back to the earliest days of my compositional career, I felt it would be good to have something right up to date.

Farjeon was an English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire. She is perhaps best-known these days as the author of the poem "Morning has Broken", a major popular song hit of the 1960s, although the text dates from 1931.

The setting is lyrical and strongly tonal throughout. The flute and voice often engage in a kind of dialogue against the piano's insistent rhythmic ideas