This highly expressive and inventive song cycle utilizes a lush prepared piano sound-world intertwined with beautiful vocal writing and text setting. The composer tells us, “This cycle is imagined as a companion piece to Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe, though it may be performed on its own in full or as selections. If programmed alongside Dichterliebe, an ideal performance would involve alternating/ intertwining songs from each set to invite a dialogue between the two perspectives of love portra...

• Only once (a)
• Why, she sees, it didn't occur her
• Only once (b)
• rejection possible
• It was then she realized
• The film
• How the film ends
• She rarely recalled
• She left them
• Only the song
• The labour of forgetting
• a novel by a writer from another continent / when sche read the novel
• in a jar