Benavides had the courage to take on two of the poems that Copland had already set, “Heart, we will forget him!” and “I felt a funeral in my brain.” Fortunately, he had no trouble finding his own voice to express his own interpretation of these texts... the performance emerged as a highly individual approach to poems that tapped into the soul of a highly individual woman.
- Review of “Pain has an element of blank” in the Examiner (feat. SFCM New Music Ensemble and Kindra Sharich): http://www.examiner.com/article/further-work-by-a-guerrilla-composer-performed-at-sfcm