For Mezzo Soprano and Piano

1. From Where Did You Arrive?

2. Touch My Heart

3. Whose Am I

4. Mirror Eyes

5. Yet

6. Playing With Three Strings

7. Holding On And Letting Go

8. It Is Never Too Late

   The texts from these songs are selections from mediations in Finding Each Other In Judaism by Harold M. Schulweis. With these meditations, Rabbi Schulweis revitalizes rites of passage as sacred moments in our lives using simple, clear, and beautiful language to focus us to a higher awareness. In reading them, I find a personal, intimate quality to these meditations, as if one person is speaking to another with deep love, compassion, and awareness. That is why I've set the texts as arts songs, the most intimate form of chamber music. Sacred Transitions focuses on the four primary life passages—birth, marriage, sickness/age, death—

   The songs of the four parts are as follows:

   Birth—From W here Did You Come?, Touch My Heart, W hose Am I?

   Marriage—Mirror Eyes, Yet

   Sickness/age— Playing With Three Strings

   Death—Holding On And Letting Go, It Is Never Too Late