Shena Fraser

Shena Eleanor Fraser (b. 26 May 1910, d. 1993) was a Scottish composer who also composed under her married name of Shena Neame and the pseudonym Sebastian Scott.^[1] She was born in Stirling, Scotland, and studied piano performance with Henry Wilson, Maurice Sons and Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music in London.^[2]

Works

Selected works include:

Carillon, song cycle
Full Fathom Five, song cycle
Two Unison Songs, song cycle
A lake and a fairy boat (Text: Thomas Hood)
Before the paling of the stars (in Carillon) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
It is the evening hour (Text: John Clare)
Margaret has a milking-pail (in Two Unison Songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
My Boy John (in Full Fathom Five) (Text: Sydney Thompson Dobell)
On a winter's night long time ago (in Carillon) (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
Red poppies (Text: William Sharp)
Requiem (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) ITA GER
Sing me a song (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
The ferryman (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
To sea (in Full Fathom Five) (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
Ferry me across the water as Sebastian Scott (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) ^[3]