5 Composers Who Turned Carolyn Forché’s Poetry Into a Song Cycle
- Five composers met at Sarah Kirkland Snider’s house for a weekend to pick favorite lines from Carolyn Forché’s poetry and weave them into a single song cycle.
- This collaborative approach—multiple composers working on shared source material in the same room—is rare in contemporary classical music.
- The resulting piece feels more cohesive than most single-composer projects.