English.
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
1. Monet's "Waterlilies"
2. Hey Nonny No
3. The Point (Stonington, Connecticut)
4. The Whipping
5. Those Winter Sundays
6. Frederick Douglass
Glances
1. Echo
2. Impossible
3. Unbroken
4. Between Verses
5. A Plea for Mercy
6. Glance
7. Echo 2
Insomnia
