The Great Deep | songs for ten-string guitar & tenor by Frank A. Wallace

Eight moving songs pondering life’s greatest mystery, for high voice with lush accompaniments on 10-string guitar. Well-known poems by Turner, Donne, Pope, Shelley, Rossetti, Shakespeare, and Tennyson. The Great Deep was written in November of 2008. Wallace dedicated this song cycle to the parents of his wife and himself as three of them move well into their 90’s. The poems reflect on the transition from this life to the mysterious beyond.

The songs are:
1) The Glory that we Knew, Walter James Turner, 1889-1946
2) For whom the Bell Tolls, John Donne, 1572 –1631
3) Vital Spark of Heavenly Flame, Alexander Pope, 1688 –1744
4) Music, when Soft Voices die, Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792–1822
5) Ode to the West Wind, Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792–1822
6) When I am Dead, My Dearest, Christina Georgina Rossetti, 1830-1894
7) Our revels now are ended, from The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I, William Shakespeare
8) Rain, rain, and sun!, from The Coming of Arthur, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809 – 1892