Winter And Rain

Don't Make Me Cry

Getting Off

Unwind

Feel

Contentment

Balm

Soothe

Comforting

Nerd and Popular

Even Though We're Apart

Secreto a Los Vientos

Fuego

Tale of the Grand Palace

Beyond the Crystal Mountains

The River Between Laughter and Sorrow is an experimental hybrid work for voices and chamber ensemble, staged in two contrasting acts. It weaves together elements of folk balladry, comic opera, lyrical chanson, and reflective classical writing.

Rather than presenting itself as a “traditional opera,” this piece explores lyrical manipulation and thematic transitions — the way words, tone, and setting shift meaning as they move from lightheartedness to despair, from public chaos to private reflection. The comic patter of a pub-side encounter collides with the weight of lament, and the result is less about adherence to form than about the experience of transition itself.

Listeners may recognize familiar genres — folk, chamber classical, operatic aria, even pub song — but the work deliberately resists categorization. It is a study in transformation, asking how laughter dissolves into sorrow, and how musical language can both mirror and blur that journey.

6. Between Laughter & Sorrow – Entr’acte – From Laughter into Silence • Orchestral

Fuego

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