The launch of my album Sixteen Contemporary Love Songs on Orchid Classics last June was the culmination of a four-year project which fell into two parts. In the first part I put together and recorded a collection of sixteen timelessly gorgeous love songs for solo piano from the romantic era, many of which have resurfaced in recent film scores or pop songs (Sixteen Love Songs ORC100056). In the second part, I invited present day composers to write their own responses to this r