Wind and Wood is my third setting of word sonnets by Seymour Mayne, the first being Hail (2003) and the second, On the Cusp (2014). For this cycle I selected nine of Mayne’s sonnets from his collection of twenty-three, each celebrating a particular aspect of life. As I did with On the Cusp, I approached the set as an improviser, moving from song to song without predetermination.