This moving group of songs set to 14 writers is a memorial to the composer's long-time companion. In the composer's words: The overall theme stresses nostalgia and loss, but also frustration and anger, and finally renewal, albeit renewal through defiance of death. Premiered at Alice Tully Hall in 2002 by baritone Kurt Ollmann and pianist Scott Dunn.
The Bed Remembrance of Things Past Memory Unsettled Paradise Lost Mongolian Idiot The Man With Night Sweats A Youth in Apparel That Glittered Waiting for the Barbarians Hearing Music at His Mother's Funeral He Walks Beneath the Stars At North Farm This Room I Loved You, Atthis Of the Scythians Night The Suicide Death Stands Above Me Despairing To Be Happy Any More The Waves Another Sleep