Tres Lamentos (for soprano, flute, cello, and piano)

Soprano, flute, cello, and piano · 18 minutes · 2022

Commissioned by Hila Plitmann.

Premiere

Hila Plitmann, Antonina Styczen, SUUVI, Robert Thies; Schoenberg Hall, Los Angeles, CA (May 19, 2022)

Program note

A Sephardic woman living in late 15th-century Granada finds herself pregnant and on her own after her husband and loved ones are forced to leave Spain by the Catholics. Prosecuted and marginalized, she hides at the caves of El Sacromonte.

The day she gives birth, she leaves her baby unattended to search for milk, for she is too weak to breastfeed. After many struggles and getting arrested, she manages to return, but it’s too late. She finds her baby still and cold — weakened by hunger, the newborn had stopped breathing.

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