PROGRAM NOTE
When Lilit asked me to write her a looping piece for her Songs of Solitude recital, I flashed back to moments in my early childhood when I would overdub myself singing onto tape, making goofy sequences that played along with the beats on my little Casio keyboard. Those early covert experiments and the sheer joy of play informed the mood and style of this piece. Roberta Sparrow's last words to Donnie Darko — “every living creature on this earth dies alone” — inspired the title Alone Together.