Songs of Enchantment

Composed in 1989, one of Hall's earliest compositions, this collection of ten short songs on children's poetry by the great English poet Walter de la Mare is fanciful, charming, humorous, endearing, ghostly, and mysterious - as all seen through a child's gentle innocence and a child's awareness of detail and changing emotion and color. Suitable for soprano or mezzo-soprano, singers will enjoy the purity of expression and the directness of sentiment offered by de la Mare's richly drawn poetic characters and Hall's magical settings of these poems. Approximately 18 minutes in duration, the collection includes: Daybreak; Away We Go; Double Dutch; The Spotted Flycatcher; The Ride-by-Nights; Company; Alas, Alack!; Hide and Seek; Silly Sallie; A Song of Enchantment.