Through this music, listeners and musicians alike confront harrowing questions: how do you call for help when you fear you won’t be heard? What does it feel like to be left behind by those you trusted? What would it mean for a loved one to lend an ear, to turn their face to shine upon you? Any concert program of psalms may raise these questions; I welcome you to explore them again, to explore them in this moment in your human experience and political life, and to listen fully to these composers’ musical explorations from their own times.

The program is presented in four pairs of old and new music, each individually united by specific themes and images, and all running along common threads: love, embodiment, vulnerability, and what to do with the heart.

Twilight is a time of change and transition. As painful and mysterious as change may be, twilight is a beautiful reminder of the vastness and cyclical-ness of nature to which we belong, to which all our pains and joys belong.

New springs bring new flowers, and the heart once broken is not simply mended. There is something to the central line, "but me and my true love will never meet again"—perhaps even if the right people met at the right place again, the right time would still have past, long ago, and with it the love once felt.