Five composers spent a weekend stitching Carolyn Forché's poetry into The Blue Hour

The five composers gathered at Sarah Kirkland Snider’s house for a weekend, selecting their favorite lines from Carolyn Forché’s poetry and weaving them into a unified song cycle. The collaborative structure — multiple composers working on shared source material in the same room — is rare in contemporary classical, and the result feels more cohesive than most single-composer projects.