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When soprano/poet Sophie Wingland came to me with the idea of collaborating on a text she herself wrote, I jumped at the opportunity. Getting to express each other's feelings in a piece, and to constantly refer to each other for interpretational ideas, was a joy from day one. Working with Sophie's expressive and sensual text, I chose this instrumentation to depict a sultry and somewhat primitive color. By weaving in and out of contrapuntal lines and exposed unison passages, I hope to portray the essence of Sophie's last poem, in which the first two poems' lines are merged together.

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