A setting of four John Masefield poems from his collection Salt Water Ballads (1902) portraying the different moods of the ocean.

The text for Memories of Silver was derived from Walter de la Mare’s poem “Silver”. This text, half-remembered, abbreviated, and altered, reveals the original poem in patches, as if it is being seen by moonlight.

From Paris to Helen is a short concert aria with a text from Ovid’s “Heroides”: a series of epistolary poems presented as if written by heroines of Greek and Roman mythology.