These Words Are Meant For Someone: how did you guys pull that off?

It's pretty simple: Manny asked me to set some poems, and then we had a chat at my place that was roughly an hour long where he gave me the poems in the order that he wanted and discussed some of the themes. I also had a separate meeting with Lauren to discuss her background as a pianist and the music that she likes. Then I sent the Matins song to Barbara, and she thought it was good. - In terms of the music, Barbara believes that a good singer can stress things that aren't stressed correctly in the music, though in this particular instance it's mostly syncopation rather than misstressed words. That's a massive bugbear of mine... but in this case I had two musicians that had phenomenal rhythm and an interest in music that bends time, which matched my interest in setting English as it's spoken. As I've stated before, I essentially developed the melodies senza misura for most of the songs, and then I set the rhythms as I wrote the piano part.