Love Songs and Epitaphs

13 songs for Soprano and Piano, written between 2017 and 2019 (approximately 30 minutes)

The audio below is from Alexandra Hegedus, mezzo soprano; Emily Morin, piano.

Each of these pieces is a small fragment, even a memory of music reflecting on love, relationships, and identity. The text is certainly abstract; it’s hard to find concrete ways of expressing the love or attraction that you might feel for someone else, and folks have been trying to understand that notion forever. I don’t think I’m the one to solve this problem, but each of these songs yarn for that answer. For myself, they or she or he always left something to hang on to, even if I never had the heart to say anything myself. For that, I’ll always be grateful to have been part of the story. All lyrics are by me, and are very much loose collections of words and phrases dealing with life, love, and death. In some way, I’m reaching back into my awkward high school emo phases, but I assure you that these pieces are much more lyrically abstract than that.

The rest of these pieces have not been recorded, but I’d love to work with someone on them, so if you’re interested in them at all, please feel free to download the score.