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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="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Opera"><U>Opera</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Orchestral"><U>Orchestral</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id62.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sylvias Song"><U>Sylvia's Song</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Instrumental"><U>Instrumental</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" Voice"><U> Voice</U></A>   |   <B>Other Works</B>   |   <A HREF="id112.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Wall Excerpts"><U>Wall Excerpts</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dance Scores"><U>Dance Scores</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Theatre"><U>Theatre</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id88.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="UPX"><U>UPX</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id82.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bosque para Cámara"><U>Bosque para Cámara</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="045d2b03.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#888888" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> OTHER WORKS</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Four Floating Songs</U></B></div> <div> 16 voice (4S 4A 4T 4B) setting of 4 ancient Japanese poems Ca 15 mins</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>The Sirens and the Sea:</U></B> a dramatic cantata for 30 female voices, commissioned by <B>Pam Cook</B> and <B>Cantamus Girls Choir</B> with funds from East Midlands Arts, premiered Nottingham Festival, July 1992, staged by Caroline Sharman. ca 15 mins.</div> <div> <I>...the piece had colour humour and power </I><I><B>Nottingham Evening Post 29.6.92</B></I></div> <div> <I><B> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="350" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 318 ><NOBR><div> <B><U>The Lady of the Ferry Inn</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Who am I? I am a lady faithful to the ways </B></div> <div> <B>of the Ferry Inn.</B></div> <div> <B>I run a tavern and cheat no one.</B></div> <div> <B>The moon in its robes of snow clouds </B></div> <div> <B>welcomes you</B></div> <div> <B>and your silver coins.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Before the men who drink here, I offer </B></div> <div> <B>a perfect world.</B></div> <div> <B>I want nothing more.</B></div> <div> <B>I walk among them, faultlessly,</B></div> <div> <B>sing intimate songs</B></div> <div> <B>and pour' the mead.</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>(Gwerfyl Mechain; Welsh, c1480)</B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></I></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> <embed src="HTMLobj-191/Who_is_She.mp3" autostart="false" width="145" height="70">  </B></I> </FONT>LISTEN: <I>The Lady of the Ferry Inn</I> FROM <I>The Sirens and the Sea</I></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>The Wall</U></B>; music theatre for baritone, actor and 5 trombones and tape. Premiered by SPNM at Royal Northern College of Music, 1982. ca 30 mins</div> <div> <I>Spoken and sung texts are interwoven, in a ritual format which uses the strikingly coloured accompaniment of five trombones, supported by similar material on tape. Restraint is the prevailing tone. The trombones meditate freely on chords and modes, essentially static even when active on the surface, and the climax ar</I>rives<I> with a letter of extraordinary composure</I> <I>sent to his family by an East German prisoner.  A final Libera me, apparently rewritten lifts the aftermath into quiet optimism</I>.</div> <div> <I><B>The Independent 14.7.90</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>2 Excerpts from The Wall Here</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>The Canterville Ghost </U></B></div> <div> Comic opera after the story by Oscar Wilde, text by Bridget Crowley </div> <div> Premiered Hoxton hall, London, 1986 and 1987 </div> <div> 7 voices, 2Vl, Vc, Cb, piano; duration 90 minutes</div> <div> Great Lakes Opera, Michigan, 25 & 26 October 2001</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>The Six-Daies World</U></B></div> <div> Acousmatic music created in the analogue electronic music studio of Durham University, 1984. Duration 7'05”</div> <div> All sounds, with the exception of the sine-waves, taken from Christine Barker's improvising on the Poem “Prayer” by George Herbert, 1593-1633.</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>