 The work was written as a commissioned piece for the 1991 centennial celebration of New York's Carnegie Hall, where it was performed by cabaret singer Andrea Marcovicci.It was then performed for three months in 2004 at the Theatre du Renard in Paris, where it was sung in French by Isabelle Georges.It has been recorded seven time in English by Marcovicci, Georges, Harolyn Blackwell, and others, in German by Pia Douwes, with a German translation by Wolfgang Adenberg, in Polish by Edyta Krzemien, also in English (in Holland) by Hetty Sponselee and Sheila Conolly, and in French by Georges.