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Neruda Songs

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Peter Lieberson’s *Neruda Songs* is a five-part song cycle for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, built from poems by Chilean writer and diplomat Pablo Neruda. Written for the composer’s wife, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, the work treats love as lived experience rather than literary pose, letting the voice move in and out of the orchestra’s changing light. It has circulated widely in New York’s classical ecosystem since its early-2000s arrival, even when not billed as a formal “NYC premiere.” Now heard live at NJPAC with the New Jersey Symphony, it sits naturally beside Francis Poulenc’s French song lineage.