"The Glory of Your Eyes" is set to a two-line fragment of a poem by the Ancient Greek poet Sappho. Our society remembers Sappho as a poet and a lesbian icon, but fewer people know that she was also a composer and a performer of her own work. The parts of her opus that survive were likely once songs, and it feels special to give them music once more. This fragment, only two lines, is a favorite of mine, and my setting of it is intended as a celebration of mutual support and joy in friendship.

Recording credit: Nora Farley and Hayla Alawi, voices; Jake Ellzey, frame drum; Emily Graham, piano; recording by Nelson Walker