Medium Voice

Score composed in 1940, revised in 1983.

 from Daybirth Collection

"I feel the strain of melody
Of ecstasy, and the depth of you
And your memory beside the sea,
The rain forest in my dream."--Frederick C. Tillis (excerpt from poem text)

The play is a monologue of a mother (a former cabaret singer)writing to her estranged daughter.  The mother sings the 5 songs during the course of the play.  The songs work well as a set apart from a performance of the play.