• Premiere: June 17, 2009 / Church of St. John the Evangelist / Boston, Massachusetts / Jacob Cooper, baritone; Leo Eguchi, cello

• Instrumentation: Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor, or Baritone & Cello 

• Duration: 5'

• Text: Keats

 

Program Note

 

Commissioned by Jacob Cooper and premiered on the concert series of St. John the Evangelist in Boston, on the same program as my first String Quartet.  The text is a series of impatient attempts to elicit an expression of love that matches the passion and abandon of the speaker.