Songs For Marvellous | Three Songs
Three songs for Mezzo Soprano and Piano pieces from the song cycle, Songs For Marvellous
1. 9th October 2018 - Mezzo Soprano and Piano | Range: D4 - G4
2. Child and Mother - Mezzo Soprano and Harp/Piano | Range: C4 - F5
3. Song for my Children (A Te) - Mezzo Soprano and Piano | Range: A3 - E5
In Memoriam
Marvellous John Bartholomew Jarman-Pinto
3rd September 2014
285g
Modena, Italy
Programme Notes
'Songs for Marvellous' was written after our son, Marvellous, was born at 20 weeks in Modena, Italy, in 2014. I came away from the explicitly traumatic experience feeling that I needed to prove to him my worth. I had failed him, as I saw it then, in my most basic task as a parent, failed to keep him alive and failed to bring his body home.
I spent weeks and months trying to lose myself in tasks; moving house, video games, cleaning, washing, composing and transcribing music, all to keep my mind from rehashing over every single moment of my experience in Italy. I was rebuffed so many times when trying to get help for my post traumatic stress disorder, not to mention the grief.
In the midst of this, some beautiful people wound their healing hands around us, embracing us with letters, regular phone calls and texts, medical and emotional support, hugs and shoulders to cry on.
I knew that I wanted to have Marvy memorialised somehow. Writing ‘Songs For Marvellous’ was a way to grieve, heal and keep our son in our lives. The baby that only I knew; who would wriggle when I felt stressed; wake me at night with his kicking; respond instantly to my touch; who cheekily showed us his bum during scans; who was such a beautiful weight to hold and a perfect being to set eyes upon. Who is so loved, wanted and missed.
He will always journey with me.
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Three songs for Mezzo Soprano and Piano pieces from the song cycle, Songs For Marvellous
1. 9th October 2018 - Mezzo Soprano and Piano | Range: D4 - G4
2. Child and Mother - Mezzo Soprano and Harp/Piano | Range: C4 - F5
3. Song for my Children (A Te) - Mezzo Soprano and Piano | Range: A3 - E5
In Memoriam
Marvellous John Bartholomew Jarman-Pinto
3rd September 2014
285g
Modena, Italy
Programme Notes
'Songs for Marvellous' was written after our son, Marvellous, was born at 20 weeks in Modena, Italy, in 2014. I came away from the explicitly traumatic experience feeling that I needed to prove to him my worth. I had failed him, as I saw it then, in my most basic task as a parent, failed to keep him alive and failed to bring his body home.
I spent weeks and months trying to lose myself in tasks; moving house, video games, cleaning, washing, composing and transcribing music, all to keep my mind from rehashing over every single moment of my experience in Italy. I was rebuffed so many times when trying to get help for my post traumatic stress disorder, not to mention the grief.
In the midst of this, some beautiful people wound their healing hands around us, embracing us with letters, regular phone calls and texts, medical and emotional support, hugs and shoulders to cry on.
I knew that I wanted to have Marvy memorialised somehow. Writing ‘Songs For Marvellous’ was a way to grieve, heal and keep our son in our lives. The baby that only I knew; who would wriggle when I felt stressed; wake me at night with his kicking; respond instantly to my touch; who cheekily showed us his bum during scans; who was such a beautiful weight to hold and a perfect being to set eyes upon. Who is so loved, wanted and missed.
He will always journey with me.
PDF Digital Download
2 Copy License (Singer and Pianist)
Please support self-published composers and buy extra copies rather than photocopying