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""Kyrie" began as "Weeping Song," a setting of oohs and aahs composed when I was 17 years old and learning to use music as an outlet for coping with debilitating depression and anxiety. I had just been introduced to the music of Samuel Barber, and Barber's setting of "Agnus Dei," based on his Adagio for Strings, was a massive influence on my compositional language at the time. Later, adding the catholic mass text which in English says "Lord, have mercy; Christ, have mercy; Lord, have mercy" allowed me to connect my personal expression of grief to expressions of grief and pleas for mercy from across the centuries. In a way, adding this text helped me to feel like I wasn't alone and that a presence that transcends time and space might be lovingly hearing all of us as we cry for mercy in times of despair."

- Zanaida Robles

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