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A collection of art song settings of works by Jorie Graham, BJ Ward, and Wallace Stevens, these sont link the 19th-century European art song tradition with modernist aesthetics. The common narrative of love and death and the struggles of the artist are here mapped into the situation of the Modern; isolation, anomie, and disruption in the very structures of meaningfulness. These songs are performed by long-time collaborators, tenor Robert Baker and pianist Molly Orlando