Faces

• written for High Voice and Piano; 5’ 00”

​( 2020 )



Faces by Sara Teasdale is in the Public Domain.

Video Above: Faces starts at 13:18!

Program Note

Faces is a setting of a poem of the same name by Sara Teasdale. This setting interprets the text to be filled with sorrow, as if one can see through the glass blockade created in a nervous street-faring stranger’s eyes and see the true instability that lies within all of us. This reflects on the speaker, who is also struggling to maintain a façade of security in a crumbling society. The melody is held back, as if reserving one note for each cautious step forward and to not reveal one's true fears and beliefs.