A wistful song with text by the composer.

This is a song cycle for mezzo-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) de la

Performances World Premiere: Andrea Chenoweth, soprano, Eric Charnofsky, piano, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, September 23, 2007. New England Premiere: ContemporaryAmericana Festival, Boston Massachusetts, September 24, 2010. Text “Whalefall,” by Elizabeth Bradfield, “Interpretive Work” (Arktoi Books, 2008). Program Note After hearing the poet read the