December Songs

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December Songs is a song cycle by Maury Yeston. It is a 'retelling' of Schubert's Winterreise, (a song cycle of art songs), with a cabaret sensibility. It performed for three months in 2004 at the Theatre du Renard in Paris, and was sung by Isabelle Georges.

The songs in both December Songs and Winterreise are linked as a sequence of reflections by the singer taking a lonely walk in winter, thinking back on his or her lost love.