Two of the "3 Lorca Sketches for Orchestra" grew from a
set of songs I wrote in 1988 (revised in 1996) for
soprano and string quartet, called "Canciones Sobre el
Amor y la Muerte" (?Songs of Love and Death?), based on
the poetry of Federico García Lorca (1898-1936). The
third Lorca Sketch is loosely based on "Passage 2 for
Orchestra," a work I composed in 1992.