Search - Mary Nessinger;Jeanne Golan :: Innocence Lost

The performers, Mary Nessinger, soprano and Jeanne Golan, piano asked ten American composers from a variety of backgrounds to write songs in response to the ten individual songs that make up two visionary cycles from the cusp of the last century, Claude Debussy s Trois Chansons de Bilitis and Alban Berg s Sieben Frühe Lieder. The juxtapositions between the commissioned songs range from natural progressions to shocks of contrast in a way that the performers had not imagined, but that honor the pacing of the original cycles to an uncanny extent.