Composition:
1987 — Chesapeake, OH

Dedication:
For my very dear friends, Michael Dennis Browne and Lisa McLean

First Performance:
Dawn Upshaw, soprano
Margo Garrett, piano
Tuesday, December 8, 1987
McKnight Theater
St. Paul, MN

The audio selections feature Dawn Upshaw, soprano and Margo Garrett, piano (“Some Things Are Dark”) and Cherie Caluda, soprano and Juliana Hall, piano (“Sonnet”). Used with the permission of the composer.

1 – The Crickets sang (Emily Dickinson)
2 – The Night Dances (Sylvia Plath)
3 – Song (Emily Brontë)
4 – Sleep, mourner, sleep! (Emily Brontë)
5 – Some Things Are Dark (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
6 – A Spider sewed at Night (Emily Dickinson)
7 – Sonnet (Elizabeth Bishop)