There is an eloquent simplicity to this piece. The soft music and the direct, soft-spoken, voice of the narrator accentuate the poignancy of the story.
Told without bitterness, we get a sympathetic glimpse of the mother even as we imagine how the child must have felt.
From the resonant, contemplative piano introduction, I was literally dragged into this piece. The story is riveting, and the description allows us to really be in the scene. At times I felt like the little girl in the story, and could relate to her realization. I saw many people in the mother, and appreciated the short background we got about her from the storyteller. I loved it when the music changed and opened up into a whole different mood. I feel it suggests elevation or rising up, which was very fitting for the conclusion of the piece.
In this music-backed monologue, we hear an adult woman speaking in the voice of herself as a child. She reminisces about a formative incident between her and her mother, and how it still touches her today.
This is a nice little slice of life. It about as soft a piece as you could imagine, in spite of the hard lesson it describes. It would be entertaining and engaging for the right audience in the right context.
Comments for This Child
Produced by Elizabeth Yeoman
Other pieces by Elizabeth Yeoman
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4 comments
Cheryl-Anne Millsap
Posted on December 07, 2005 at 03:30 PM | Permalink
Review of This Child
There is an eloquent simplicity to this piece. The soft music and the direct, soft-spoken, voice of the narrator accentuate the poignancy of the story.
Told without bitterness, we get a sympathetic glimpse of the mother even as we imagine how the child must have felt.
David Tames
Posted on October 19, 2005 at 09:42 PM | Permalink
Review of This Child
The piece draws you in right away and effectively conveys
the storyteller's inner subjective experience of herself as
a child.
Jennifer Wicks
Posted on October 07, 2005 at 10:29 AM | Permalink
Review of This Child
From the resonant, contemplative piano introduction, I was literally dragged into this piece. The story is riveting, and the description allows us to really be in the scene. At times I felt like the little girl in the story, and could relate to her realization. I saw many people in the mother, and appreciated the short background we got about her from the storyteller. I loved it when the music changed and opened up into a whole different mood. I feel it suggests elevation or rising up, which was very fitting for the conclusion of the piece.
Steve Sergeant
Posted on September 20, 2005 at 04:55 PM | Permalink
Review of This Child
In this music-backed monologue, we hear an adult woman speaking in the voice of herself as a child. She reminisces about a formative incident between her and her mother, and how it still touches her today.
This is a nice little slice of life. It about as soft a piece as you could imagine, in spite of the hard lesson it describes. It would be entertaining and engaging for the right audience in the right context.