Myriads

2016

"Myriads" is a song cycle expressing the myriad of emotions experienced while going through a divorce. It touches on grief, comical bitterness, depression, and hope. It is my story, and it is my words.

I. a conversation with mother  II. all feelings feel wrong  III. patriarchal oppression  IV. his stocking hung  V. bitter suite VI. last words  VII. the river  VIII. aurë vinya tuluva

Instrumentation: mezzo-soprano, guitar and piano
Duration: 26'

Myriads, movements 1-2, 4-5, and 7-8, was premiered at the Strata Festival of New Music Emerging Composers Master Class in 2016.