On a May evening in 2022, Dwan Hill and a small team of musicians set up music stands, chairs, a piano, and an organ in Columbia A, a studio on Nashville’s Music Row owned by Belmont University.

Lisa Dwan is a renowned performer of works by Samuel Beckett. She reflects on Beckett, who left Ireland - and one of his key inspirations, Dante, who was exiled from Florence, never to return.