This is the prayer of a little girl dreaming of freedom. As you’ll hear in the introduction to the music, the inspiration for the poem came from the poet Patricia Sykes’s own experience of looking up into the Abbotsford sky, at another girl skipping freely on the air.

Featured on this recording are producer Sascha Kelly, poet-librettist Patricia Sykes, and Andy Aronowicz the composer for the Abbotsford Mysteries Song Cycle Project. Joined by Liane Keegan, mezzo soprano, with the musicians of Plexus ensemble: violinist Monica Curro, clarinettist Phil Arkinstall, and pianist Stefan Cassomenos.

The music was recorded by Greg Matheson in the Lady Marigold Southey Performance Studio at 3MBS: Fine Music Melbourne. Mixing and mastering by Chris Lawson.

The Abbotsford Mysteries Song-Cycle project and podcast are presented in partnership with the Abbotsford Convent Foundation, with support from Creative Victoria, The Australian Cultural Foundation, Kawaii Pianos and Spinifex Press. The music was recorded at 3MBS: Fine Music Melbourne, in the Lady Marigold Southey Performance Studio.

The Abbotsford Convent sits on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, by the waters of the Birrarung. We pay our respects to their Elders, and other Aboriginal Elders listening - past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded.

Photo credit: Tangerine Creative.

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