Motherwit

Motherwit is the first song from the Facing Forward/Looking Back song cycle composed by Jake Heggie. The original text was written by Charlene Baldridge, an American poet and literary critic.

Date: 2007Composer: Jake HeggieSong Collection: Facing Forward/Looking Back

Print vitals & song text

Recordings

Passing By

(Raymond Carver, Jake Heggie, A. E. Housman, Vachel Lindsay and Edna St. Vincent Millay)

2010

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