Lonely Hearts
2005 Filed in: With Cecelia
McDowall
is a setting of three of Christie’s poems, each
offering a different view of being alone. The first
song, 'Autumn Migration', describes the flight of a
flock of birds across the sky pursued by a ‘single
late flyer’ stitching ‘together earth and sky’. The
second song, 'Night Garden', evokes the delicate
fragrance of a still summer’s evening in which ‘lives
too small to risk the light’ bravely begin to stir.
The final song, 'Would Like To Meet', presents a
‘Lonely Hearts’ column, with a comic difference.
Commissioned by the Canterbury Chamber Choir and
first performed in 2005.