Heart, we will forget him!

Winner of the 3rd prize in Linkopings Studentsangare Composition Award 2020. "The phrase 'Heart, we will forget him!' runs like a mantra through the note systems, this is grief being processed. Emily Dickinson's poem deals with one of the finest, yet most difficult, of all human endeavors, our relationships. In this setting, I would like to shift the perspective, showing her words from an angle that is not often found in the repertoire of men's choirs that all relationships have a right to exist, to be acknowledged, to thrive and maybe even to break down." Linnea Landstrom