Complete run-through of Joyce Mathis's upcoming program, including my Women's Voices, for a dozen guests in a private hall. Joyce's vocal coach, Cornelius Reid, does not remain for my songs. That a reputable voice teacher should depart, for whatever reason, before the unveiling of a new cycle is insulting no less to that cycle's composer than to all writers of song today, and underlines once again the indifference to contemporary vocal music, even by those most involved.