Bernard Rands: Memo 7 (2000)
Bernard Rands' Memo 7 (2000) is a tribute to the Berio Sequenzas, which sets Emily Dickinson's poem, #1005:
Bind me - I can still sing -
Banish - my mandolin
Strikes true within -
Slay - and my Soul shall rise
Chanting to Paradise -
Still thine.
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This live performance took place at Andrea Clearfield's Philadelphia Salon on March 20, 2016.
Whalen: Dawn (2013)
Text by Robert Whalen and Katherine Skovira
I see you now in a new beginning
Stretched wide across the horizon
Interspersed - among ashes of twilight,
Fragments - dissolve into unity
A quiet joy sings forth in my heart
The dawn.
Katherine Skovira, mezzo-soprano
Kyle Adam Blair, piano
Westminster Choir College Williamson Hall August 4, 2015