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On the Hillside was composed at the very start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 when we were all trapped in our own homes. I felt very uninspired and stressed as I was making the transition to online schooling, but eventually I became extremely bored. So I sat down to read some poetry, and I stumbled upon this poem by Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943) and felt inspired for the first time in months. Under the light of a single piano lamp, I stayed up all night drafting ideas and melodies (There is a video on Facebook from this night that I like to look back on when remembering the writing process for this piece). I initially wrote an art song for high voice that would become the final movement of my song cycle Of Memories and Dreams.
