SONG-PEACE-WAR-SINS-INDUSTRY-DISCONTENT-FAME-OBSCURITY – Daniel Fardon (University of Birmingham, UK)
~ To be freely interpreted ~
WORDS
Sing a sad song
Where there ain’t nuthin’ but happy
It’s what Jesus would do
Yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah
Hate the sin not the sinner
Jump upon the peace train
In the heart of America
It’s sad but true,
When the day that lies ahead of me
Bears heavy on my mind
Y’all can’t blame it on the hip-hop
Everyone needs it baby
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
Discontent, you must leave
Got me looking
In the heart of America
Looking so crazy in love
Obscure as we are
Come on now peace train
Don’t throw it all away
What’s your name?
There’s only our hair’s breadth between us
You should feel ashamed
Cause they say I’ve done wrong
Blood on the floor
Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin
Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin
Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin
As sure as we be, a lovely day;
The reason I’m goin’; we’re throwing it all away
Daniel Fardon
I am a British Composer, currently studying for a PhD in Musical Composition at the University of Birmingham under the supervision of Michael Zev Gordon. As a graduate of the University of Cambridge, and the Birmingham Conservatoire, I previously studied under the tutelage of Richard Causton, Howard Skempton, and Errollyn Wallen, partaking in masterclasses with Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Judith Weir, Colin Matthews, and Mark-Anthony Turnage.
My current research explores how musical eclecticism is understood and manifested across new music platforms, with a specific focus on stylistic construction in concert music, and the historical evolution of the relationship between composer and performer. My latest paper (on Schnittke to Zorn) was published by the University of Southampton’s Emergence Journal in Autumn 2016, and my new graphic setting of Shakespeare’s ‘When icicles hang by the wall’ was published in the Birmingham Journal of Literature and Language (BJLL) in Summer 2017. I am currently the recipient of both The Sir Thomas White’s Music Scholarship, and a University of Birmingham College of Arts and Law Doctoral Scholarship Award, which fully funds my study and research.
Daniel Fardon