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For those not in the know, The Secret Letter re-imagines a program of the same name performed by Cantus in the spring of 2025, weaving music together with excerpts from letters by Marcus Aurelius, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and others.

These interludes offer fleeting access to private moments of longing, devotion, and vulnerability, while the surrounding music expands and amplifies their emotional terrain, carrying forward their tension, tenderness, restraint, and release.

The Secret Letter bears witness and celebrates queer love that has always existed—persistent, imaginative, and worthy of song—and that even in secrecy, has found ways to speak, to sing, and to survive.

1. Yhinx
2. Canto a Eleggua
3. Love Is...
4. Marcus Aurelius to Marcus Fronto
5. Bésame Mucho
6. Excerpt from De Profundis
7. Le Jour M’étonne Et La Nuit Me Fait Peur...
8. On the Shoulders of Giants
9. Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, August 21, 1869
10. Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes
11. Light Years to Lebanon
12. Emily Dickinson to Susan Gilbert, Summer 1852
13. Before Spring
14. Loucení
15. Blackbird
16. To the One I Once Was (Or Might Have Been)
17. We Kiss in a Shadow

This most poignant exploration, where Cantus delves into the depths of unspoken desires and hidden yearnings, where queer love has often been relegated to the shadows, obscured by the weight of societal expectations and prejudices, opens on the _____________ of Yhinx, the ________ of Canto a Eleggua and the ___________ of Love Is... and then we are brought forth the __________ of Marcus Aurelius to Marcus Fronto, the ______ of Bésame Mucho, the _________ of Excerpt from De Profundis and both the _______________ of Le Jour M’étonne Et La Nuit Me Fait Peur... and the _____________ of On the Shoulders of Giants.

Along next is the _______________ of Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, August 21, 1869, the __________ of Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes and the _________ of Light Years to Lebanon and they are in turn backed seamlessly by the ____________ of Emily Dickinson to Susan Gilbert, Summer 1852, the __________ of Before Spring, the ____________ of Loucení and the ______________ of Blackbird, the new set rounding out on the ______________ of To the One I Once Was (Or Might Have Been), coming to a resounding close on the __________ of We Kiss in a Shadow.

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