The novel really has nothing to do with the piece, but the title just fit.

Don't let yourself be small because you want to fit in.

It was definitely a lot of her playfulness, wit and fire that I tried to put into the piece. She was such a great supporter of the arts, so I wanted to do something to reflect that energy she had.

My piece is definitely neo-classical, it very much recalls Stravinsky and others of that style, which is one of the reasons I think it fit for the program. The dance-like rhythms from the Boyce and Albinoni, you'll hear in my piece, just with a bit wider harmonic palette.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel.