Peter Maxwell Davies

Miss Donnithorne's Maggot (1974)


Plays: 2184


Music-theatre work for mezzo-soprano and ensemble
III. Recitative (opening)
Duration: 01 mins 18 secs
Mary Thomas/The Fires of London/Peter Maxwell Davies
© and (p) 1987 Unicorn-Kanchana Records, London
Unicorn-Kanchana DKP 9052

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Text heard on Sample:
They say the owl was a baker's daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Here comes the bride, stark mad in white satin. And her maid, stark sane in black bombazine, and with such a pretty apron.
© Randolph Stow

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