Distress Call -3 - BRYHER MUSIC

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Distress Call -3

Four Orchestral Suites
Distress Call     - a Light Opera
Composer: Gordon Pascoe    Opus # 1


                                                         An imaginary "Auntie Kath's Cottage"     
Based on a Remembrance: of an evening with the women of my family and seeing the agony of extreme anxiety waiting in "Trekieve" for the safe return of their menfolk from a lifeboat Distress Call. The crew included my Grandfather Jim Lethbridge and his son, my Uncle Jim, and my Uncle Matt (coxswain) and his three sons Uncle "Boy" Matt, Uncle Harry, and Uncle Richard. Six members of the were Lethbridge family.  
Not due for release until I have live vocals, perhaps a "radio" version.
A very brief summary and the cast is shown here, with a play list below.
Summary
Just before she was born Isabel’s father died while on a lifeboat distress call.  Her mother grieved and lived for only two years after Isabel's birth and Isabel was raised by her mother's sister, Kath. This created a deep fear in Isabel that family history might repeat itself and so she refuses to marry the love of her young life because he is a member of the lifeboat crew.
CAST
      Islanders ("Scillonians")
Isabel  Woodcock (soprano)
Bessie Pascoe (soprano)
Auntie Kath (alto)

David Jenkins (tenor)
Jim Lethbridge (baritone)
Clifford Jenkins (bass)
Visitors
(on holiday from the Mainland)
Mary - a Doctor
Daisy - A nurse

Tom - A firefighter
Charlie - A paramedic



ACT ONE
ACT TWO
0
Overture   (orchestra)
15
Here's My Chair - David & Isabel
1
Serenade (Delicious Confusion)  - David
wav with no vocal
16
My Feeling Are Hazy - Jim & Bessie
2
Isabel's Lament (Why Can't I Tell Him) - Isabel
17
I Never Dreamed That Love Could Be  - Isabel
3
Duet: Tell Him You Love Him - Bessie & Isabel
18
We Are Gathered Here Today   - Ensemble
4
Duet: You're Making A Hullabaloo - Jim & Bessie
19
What A Happy Wedding  - Ensemble
5
The Day Is Fine   - Bessie           vocal by Amy
20
Why, Oh Why  - Isabel
6
When Two People In Love  - Isabel & David
21
Trio: Please Come Home  Isabel, Bessie & Kath
7
Dear Auntie Kath - Isabel
22
Isabels Prayer     - Isabel
8
They  Make The World A Safer Place - Kath
23
Words Of Love  - David & Isabel
9
My Memory Will Always Be (Locket Aria) - Kath
24
(Curtain Calls)
10
Romance In The Air  - Ensemble

11
When I Am In His Arms - Isabel

12
You Haven't Got Courage  (Tango) - Bessie & Jim

13
Words Of Love (David)

14
Romance In The Air (reprise) - Ensemble

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