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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="044fd5a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Paul Barker: Composer</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Paul Barker: Composer"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Biography "><U>Biography </U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Performances Commission"><U>Performances & Commission</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Listen to Music"><U>Listen to Music</U></A>   |   <B>Publications</B>   |   <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact"><U>Contact</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Compositions"><U>Compositions</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id74.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Portrait"><U>Portrait</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id151.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Conferences"><U>Conferences</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id150.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sales"><U>Sales</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id75.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U>Links</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id152.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reviews"><U>Reviews</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="045d2b03.jpg"> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id21_m.htm#books" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Publications"><U><B>BOOKS</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id21_m.htm#compact_discs" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Publications"><U><B>COMPACT DISCS</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Download and hear part of score:</B></div> <div> <B> </B><A HREF="id21_m.htm#excerpt_from_she_sings_and_seduces_them" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Publications"><U><B>She Sings and Seduces Them</B></U></A></div> <div>  <a href="HTMLobj-150/5Seduceexcpt.JPG"><img align="bottom" border="0" width="108" height="153" src="HTMLobj-150/seduce_thumb.JPG"></a>  </div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#888888" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Publications</I></div> <div> <B> </B><B> <A NAME="books"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>BOOKS</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Arial" ><B>:</B></FONT></div> <div> <B>Click on image to go to publishers website:</B></div> <div> <B>1)  </B><A HREF="https://ecommerce.tandf.co.uk/catalogue/SimpleSearch.asp?Frames=N&ResourceCentre=ROUTLEDGE" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://ecommerce.tandf.co.uk/catalogue/"><U><B><IMG SRC="108b71c0.jpg" border=0 width="183" height="284" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B> </B><B>2)</B><B>  <IMG SRC="10fd41a0.png" border=0 width="212" height="282" ALT="Adobe Photoshop Image" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> 3</B><B>)</B><B> </B><A HREF="http://www.crowoodpress.co.uk/780/book_details.asp?ISBN=1+86126+524+7" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.crowoodpress.co.uk/780/book_d"><U><B><IMG SRC="107c11a0.jpg" border=0 width="193" height="282" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>1) </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Composing for Voice </B></FONT></div> <div> A textbook on composing for the voice, for composers, singers, actors and teachers.</div> <div> Commissioned by Routledge, NY, 2003</div> <bR> <div> <B>3) </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Devised and Collaborative Theatre</B></FONT></div> <div> contributory chapter on music and composition,</div> <div> commissioned by the Crowood Press, UK, 2002</div> <div> order online:</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.crowoodpress.co.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.crowoodpress.co.uk"><U>http://www.crowoodpress.co.uk</U></A></div> <div> <B>2) </B>también en español <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B>TEATRO DE CREACIóN</B></FONT> (ISBN 84-89987-50-5) por </div> <div> Naque Editora, </div> <div> Pasaje Gutiérez Ortega, 1; </div> <div> 13001, Ciudad Real, ESPAÑA</div> <bR> <div> Book In Preparation:</div> <div> <B>Composing for Theater</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="compact_discs"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>COMPACT DISCS</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Arial" ><B>:</B></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.quindecim.com.mx" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.quindecim.com.mx"><U><B><IMG SRC="21a3c150.jpg" border=0 width="316" height="277" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> Quindecim QP 134</div> <bR> <div> <B>1) CD: </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Entre Palabras/Between Words</B></FONT></div> <div> <B>CONTENTS:</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pillow Song"><U><B>The Pillow Song </B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Songs Between Words"><U><B>Songs Between Words</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>Funded by FONCA and the Anglo Mexican Foundation</B></div> <div> REVIEW:</div> <div> In a completely different vein is the theatrical music of the British-Mexican composer Paul Barker whose <I>Canciones entre Palabras</I> (Songs Between Words) and <I>La cancion de Cabecera </I>(The Pillow Song) receive their premiere recordings on an issue from Quindecim Recordings. I was unfamiliar with Barker’s music before this recording, but am much impressed with his music that is full of unexpected rhythmic complexities and astringent timbres. <I>Canciones entre Palabras </I>is a collection of 14 a cappella songs (solo, duet and trio) employing vocalized syllables. The songs range in character from Zen-like stasis to manic parlando and demand virtuosic technique on the part of the performers. This is amply supplied by soprano Lourdes Ambriz, mezzo Maria Huesca, and baritone Benito Navarro. The radiant voice of Ambriz is also featured in the role of Sei Shonagan, the heroine of <I>La cancion de Cabecera</I>, Barker’s opera based on an 11th-century Japanese autobiography of the life of an imperial concubine. The composer uses an accompaniment of only traditional temple bells, cymbals and tam-tams in an effort to approximate the aesthetic of Noh drama. His text-settings, however, are at times very florid and definitely un-Noh-like in character. The libretto, crafted by Barker and sung in English, alternates between solo sections for Sei Shonagan and choruses for a group of court gossips. <I>La cancion de Cabecera</I> is a truly spectacular work and one that should invite further exploration of the wide variety of contemporary music emanating from Central and South America.</div> <bR> <div> <B> (reviewed by William Grim, Sequenza 21, Thursday, February 02, 2006 )</B></div> <div> <B>                 <IMG SRC="22e2a3c0.png" border=0 width="298" height="60" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">         </B><IMG SRC="161985e0.jpg" border=0 width="152" height="94" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Review of the Pillow Song in Mexico:</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2003/feb03/030204/03aa1cul.php?origen=opinion.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2003/feb03/03"><U><B>http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2003/feb03/030204/03aa1cul.php?origen=opinion.html</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>2)       </B><A HREF="http://www.sargasso.com/cgi-bin/ccp5/cp-app.cgi?usr=50X282752&rnd=1355988&rrc=N&cip=200.53.195.79&pg=prod&ref=SCD28035&cat=Paul+Barker&catstr=" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.sargasso.com/cgi-bin/ccp5/cp-"><U><B><IMG SRC="04fdada0.gif" border=0 width="218" height="218" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>   3)   </B><A HREF="http://www.quindecim.com.mx/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.quindecim.com.mx/"><U><B><IMG SRC="04edde30.jpg" border=0 width="221" height="227" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>2) CD: </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Turquoise Swans</B></FONT><B> (Sargasso SCD 28035)</B></div> <div> <B>Sarah Leonard, soprano with Paul Barker, piano</B></div> <div> <B>Three song cycles by Paul Barker</B></div> <div> <B>(The Thief of Songs II; Three Songs for Sylvia; Some Dirty Tricks)</B></div> <div> <B> <A NAME="excerpt_from_she_sings_and_seduces_them"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Excerpt from She Sings and Seduces Them</B></div> <div> <B> <embed src="HTMLobj-564/SEDUCE.MP3" autostart="false" width="145" height="70">  </B></div> <div> <B>SEE SCORE ON LEFT MARGIN HERE</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>3) CD: </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Tambuco</B></FONT><B>: Quindecim OP- 004</B></div> <div> <B>Four Quartets in Three Movements</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Instrumental"><U><B>Hear One Track</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>4) <IMG SRC="2560af40.png" border=0 width="266" height="244" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> 4) Solo Rumores</div> <div> This CD includes works by eleven composers. The disc is part of a two-CD collection of works which pianist Ana Cervantes commissioned to reflect the writings of Juan Rulfo. For more information about this project, please click here. (Quindecim Recordings 186)</div> <div> Ana Cervantes, piano.</div> <div> featuring</div> <bR> <div> <B>El Progreso de Pedro</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > by Paul Barker</FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>