In a last-minute opportunity, I will premiere the complete 13-song cycle Girl on Fire, with Emma Stace Darling, soprano, and your truly at the piano.  Emma’s own poetry inspired the work, which we envision evolving into a staged production.  This musical mosaic, in which poetry and song support and enhance each other, presents a young woman whose experience of life is so extreme, that throughout her harrowing physical and emotional journey to redemption, she feels as if she is literally on fire.  The spirituality, the sea, the fire, the equal amounts of exquisite physical and emotional pain, the fearless candor, are part of observations and musings set both in a figurative world and in the reality of 21st-century life, from struggle to salvation.  The concert is free!