Today “Letters” for foices and strings will be premiered in Warsaw.
The structure of the piece as well as the vocal lines are based on the Lithuanian and Polish alphabet letters with diacritics. Both languages own some special diacritic letters (ć, ł, ń, č, ė, į, etc.) as well as share some (ą, ę, and ż/ž) together.
The musical material is based on the archaic Lithuanian polyphonic chant sutartinės. The ethymology of the Lithuanian word sutartinė comes from the word sutarti, that means to agree, to accord, to relate, to be in good relation.