“To Monica Ellis and the International Double Reed Society”
Dedicated to Susan Feder and written for Alex Laing
To Thomas Duffy and to the pregoneros of my childhood memories of the streets of La Habana
dedicated to Jennifer Koh
Text from Thornton Dial’s interviews
Composed for the members of the Da Capo Players
Text by Iraida Iturralde
Poetry by Carlos Pintado
dedicated to the memory of Isaiah Sheffer
Poetry by Jane Hirsfield
Poetry by Carlos Pintado
Texts by Maya Islas, Iraida Iturralde and Alina Galiano
Text by Rita Dove
written in honor of Noah Creshevsky's 60th Birthday
Text by Rita Dov
Text by Wole Soyinka
arr. León
Text by Derek Walcott
text by Jamaica Kincaid
Poetry by Mazisi Kunene, Oswald Mtshali, and Magoleng wa Selepe
text by Manuel Martin
Song cycle
Text by John Marsden
Text by Pedro Mir
Five Songs on Poems by Rita Dove
arr. Ryan, orch. León
Text by John Ashbery
Four Songs on poems by Alison Knowles
with Michel Camilo
Premiered Oct. 21, 1988, Merkin Concert Hall, NYC; For the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, 1990
Texts by R. Sandecki; American Indians
Three Songs on Poems by Nicolás Guillén
rev. 1988