Dedicated to Susan Feder and written for Alex Laing
“To Monica Ellis and the International Double Reed Society”
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
Poetry by Carlos Pintado
Text by Iraida Iturralde
Poetry by Jane Hirsfield
dedicated to the memory of Isaiah Sheffer
Poetry by Carlos Pintado
Texts by Maya Islas, Iraida Iturralde and Alina Galiano
Text by Rita Dov
written in honor of Noah Creshevsky's 60th Birthday
Text by Rita Dove
arr. León
Text by Wole Soyinka
Text by Derek Walcott
text by Jamaica Kincaid
Song cycle
text by Manuel Martin
Poetry by Mazisi Kunene, Oswald Mtshali, and Magoleng wa Selepe
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
Texts by R. Sandecki; American Indians
Premiered Oct. 21, 1988, Merkin Concert Hall, NYC; For the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, 1990
Three Songs on Poems by Nicolás Guillén
rev. 1988