Incredible art blossoms when the stresses of time and funds do not weigh on its creator. Through a generous grant by Chamber Music America, the Doris Duke Charitable Fund, and time provided by the pandemic, vocalist and composer Luciana Souza was able to sit down and write a new long-form piece without distraction. Taking inspiration from first lines of poems by Emily Dickinson, and loosely tracking a day in the life of someone, Luciana recorded the piece live onstage at Rockport Music Hall in Massachusetts, along with her trio of guitarist Chico Pinheiro and bassist Scott Colley.

I. If I can stop one heart from breaking

II. I lost a world the other day

III. If you were coming in the Fall

IV. Hope is the thing with feathers

V. Bring me the sunset in a cup

VI. I found the phrase to every thought

VII. We talked as girls do

VIII. The crickets sang

IX. Of bronze and blaze

X. I many times thought peace had come

XI. It might be easier

XII. I asked no other thing

XIII. Why make it doubt - it must be so

XIV. I saw the wind within her

XV. Before you thought of Spring

XVI. A door just opened on a street

XVII. There is a word (which bears a sword)

XVIII. I dwell in possibility

XIX. I gave myself to him

XX. The sun kept setting, setting still

XXI. She slept beneath a tree

XXII. It struck me everyday

XXIII. Heart not as heavy as mine

XXIV. We outgrow love like other things