For You, I Will Be An Island

Sometimes simple adjectives best describe a piece: Bold, imaginative, fearless, expressive. These words all apply to Cook’s unaccompanied “For You I Will be an Island.” She opens the piece with an instantly memorable melody in the soprano voice, built around that melancholy interval, the minor 6th Passages of wordless chorus and delicate use of extreme tessituras result in a piece that is brilliantly “orchestrated” for voices.