Composer’s Note:

The text for this song, Jeri Theriaults poem Dark Winter, was inspired by Gideon Boks painting of the same name, depicting a dark loft-like studio space high above the city, drenched in deep blue, both inviting and vaguely menacing. Theriault imagines a couple on the verge of divorce, drawn in desperation to Boks room: we swore this place would save us. The musical setting bathes the words in harmonic resonance, echoes, hints of water drops.