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James Matheson's Times Alone is a 20-minute song cycle on five surrealist poems by the Spanish writer Antonio Machado dating from 1907. The composer has written 'Antonio Machado's early poems are imag...

A beautiful extract from Garrop's major oratorio Terra Nostra, set to the poem by Walt Whitman. Terra Nostra considers, through texts and poems, the world as it was, humanity's rise and impact on the...

A beautiful extract from Garrop's major oratorio Terra Nostra, set to the poem by Walt Whitman. Terra Nostra considers, through texts and poems, the world as it was, humanity's rise and impact on the...

The poetry of Marie Howe has a special place in Ricky Ian Gordon's heart and mind, both haunting and soothing. Without Music is a five-movement work in which Howe's words and Gordon's music together g...

Powerfully poignant and equally tender, My Dearest Ruth is Garrop's musical setting of the final love letter from Martin Ginsburg to his wife, the opera-loving Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsbur...

Stacy Garrop's DIRGE WITHOUT WORDS is a dramatic setting of Edna St. Vincent Millay's elegiac poem of the same name. The music gives voice to the mournful, yet defiant, character of the poetry, which...

What's in a name? While the title is French for 'Eight Flower Songs,' the texts are all in English. The poems' flowers metaphorically evoke fragrance, love and loss, life and death, rebirth and regrow...

It's New Year's Eve in Chicago, 1919. Just before the stroke of midnight, an anonymous woman leaps from the rooftop of a downtown hotel. The next morning, a young reporter named Abigail lands her firs...

This aria from Stacy Garrop's gripping noir-esque opera, The Transformation of Jane Doe, set in 1920s Chicago is lyrical, lilting, and sweet, a welcome addition to the aria repertoire for Mezzo-Sopran...