Nigel Keay - Voice & piano settings of poems by Dunstan Ward (2024)

1. The Swallows

'The Swallows' for mezzo-soprano and piano - Full Score - PDF, 5 pages

2. The Garden at Night

'The Garden at Night' for mezzo-soprano and piano - Full Score - PDF, 6 pages

The poem 'The Garden at Night' is taken from the collection 'Departures'. "The Jardin du Luxembourg is viewed at night as a kind of lost Eden, which with the expulsion of humankind has reverted to its prelapsarian state: nature before nurture (perhpas there's a trace here of yearning for New Zealand's wilderness)."

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Upcoming performances;

Thursday 17 Avril 2025 at 7pm.

Fondation des Etats-Unis, CIUP, 15 Bd Jourdan, Paris 75014.

"Contemporary Voices Paris/New York".

Performers: Kayla Collingwood & Khalid McGhee.

Past performances;

Saturday 23 November 2024, at 8pm. Temple de Port-Royal, 18 bd Arago, Paris 75013. Kayla Collingwood, contralto, and Isabelle Dutel, piano will perform The Swallows and The Gardens at Night for voice and piano.

18 November 2024, 19h30. Reid Hall, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris. Kayla Collingwood (contralto) and Isabelle Dutel (piano) gave the première performance of The Swallows andThe Gardens at Night.