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Katherine Balch

estrangement

Subtitlefor soprano and piano
Text informationText by Katie Ford
Year(s) composed2020
PublisherSchott Music
Duration24'
Movements

I. Only once (a)
II. Why, she sees, it didn't occur to her
III. Only once (b)
IV. rejection possible
V. It was then she realized
VI. The film
VII. How the film ends
VIII. She rarely recalled
IX. She left them (the wall she had to make)
X. Only the song
XI. The labor of forgetting
XII. a novel by a writer from another continent / when she read the novel
XIII. in a jar

The 13-movement cycle may be performed as a full set or as selections, and may be intertwined with Dichterliebe.

PremiereApril 10, 2021; Online Stream hosted by the Brooklyn Art Song Society; Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano; Michael Brofman, piano
CommissionCommissioned by the Brooklyn Art Song Society with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and dedicated to Lucy Fitz G ibbon and Michael Brofman
LanguageEnglish
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