Dramatic tone poem for mezzo-soprano and tuned gongs with elements of theater and audience participation. Range A-flat3 - B-flat5. Duration 13-15min.
​What to Do When Compassion Breaks is about what could happen in a city - any city - if daily self-compassion breaks became a habit for everyone. In the poem, the "new and wise mayor" makes "a motion" for mandatory self-compassion breaks and all kinds of wonderful and unsettling shifts begin to occur, with ripple effects reaching far into the universe.
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