Work
Away with the Fairies
divertissement for diva
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About
Away with the Fairies is a string of kitsch songs about fairies and pixies, animals and children. They are linked by recitatives which, like the songs, include quotations from other composers' music.
Commissioned note
Written for Mary Newman-Pound
Contents note
I. Alas Belinda! – Belinda the cow
II. What Lazy little Fairies – The Pixie postmen
III. Now I shall discourse – Butterfly
IV. But Moths are rather strange – Moths
V. Unrequited – Cowboy Cure
Text note
Texts by Gloria Rawlinson (songs), William Dart (recitatives); Emily B. ("Alas Belinda! - Belinda the cow") and S. Omar Barker ("Unrequited- Cowboy Cure")