Program Note

This is a song cycle for mezz0-soprano consisting of settings of seven poems by Federico Garcia Lorca, in the original Spanish. The poems are:

I Preludio
II Cumbre
III Inventos
IV Las Seis Cuerdas
V Total
VI Abajo
VII Meditación Primera (y última)

This work was premiered on January 17, 2024, by Katherine Pracht Phares and Kevin Bylsma, piano, in Bryan Recital Hall at Bowling Green State University, Toledo Ohio.