Songs of love : a senior recital

Love has long been the inspiration behind great works of art. Music, specifically. is able to convey this great human emotion in a way unlike any other medium. Love extends itself in many forms and contexts: romantic love; spiritual love; love between a mother and child; between a father and son; the love of a concept or idea; etc. Romantic love specifically has many different stages: new love; flirtatious love; longing love during absence; peaceful, restful love; passionate love; etc. This senior recital combines musical repertoire from three different centuries, in four different languages, and by eleven different composers, all on the universal topic of love. This author's statement describes the incredible journey taken from deciding to perform a recital, through months of difficult practicing, to the culmination of these efforts in the recital.