ECS.8876
The fourteen songs in this volume were composed between 2002 and 2009. A set of six, America 1968 , represent poet Robert Hayden's view of our country during a volatile time. Glances is a set of seven songs on enigmatic poems originally written in Polish. Insomnia is excerpted from a ten-movement thirty minute piece for four voices.
Contents:
America 1968
Monet's "Waterlilies"
Hey Nonny No
The Point (Stonington, Connecticut)
The Whipping
Those Winter Sundays
Frederick Douglass
Glances
Echo
Impossible
Unbroken
Between Verses
A Plea for Mercy
Glance
Echo 2
Insomnia