
Montage based on W. T. Richards, Beach with Sun Drawing Water, 1872, watercolor, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and A. Cabanel, The Birth of Venus, 1863, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
"Marisol," scored for tenor and piano, was completed in late August 2007 as a companion for "To an Unknown God" and "Icarus." All three songs are settings of original poems by the composer. In the embedded mp3, English horn substitutes for tenor.