What Time Is It Anyway? Across a Day in American Song @ Seattle Art Museum

What Time Is It Anyway? Across a Day in American Song
What Time Is It Anyway? Across a Day in American Song
DAYBREAK
Will There Really Be a Morning? by Ricky Ian Gordon (b. 1956); poem: Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
The Daisies by Samuel Barber (1920–1981); poem: James Stephens (1880–1950)
It’s All I Have to Bring Today by Craig Urquhart (b. 1953); poem: Emily Dickinson
Arise, My Love by Richard Hundley (1931–2018); Biblical text from The Song of Solomon
Early in the Morning by Ned Rorem (1923–2022); poem: Robert Hillyer (1895–1961)
MIDDAY
Spring Wind by Eric Thiman (1900–1975); poem: Christina Rossetti (1830–1894)
Silent Noon by Shona Mackay (b. unpublished); poem: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)
An Old Tune by Lockrem Johnson (1924–1977); poem: Robert Abraham
Afternoon on a Hill by Richard Hundley (1931-2018); poem: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
Heavenly Grass by Paul Bowles (1910–1999); poem: Tennessee Williams (1911–1983)
Silent Noon by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958); poem: D. G. Rossetti (1828–1882)
EVENING
There Will Be Stars by John Duke (1899–1984); poem: Sara Teasdale (1884–1933)
A Green Lowland of Pianos by Samuel Barber; Polish poem: Jerzy Harasymowicz (1933–1999), transl. Czesław Miłosz
O Boundless, Boundless Evening by Samuel Barber; Georg Heym (1887–1912), transl. Christopher Middleton
Sure on This Shining Night by Samuel Barber; poem: James Agee (1909–1955)
Good morning midnight by Lori Laitman (b. 1955); poem: Emily Dickinson
Good Night by Lockrem Johnson; lyrics from the tombstone of Mark Twain’s daughter
DAWN
Will There Really Be a Morning? by Richard Hundley; poem: Emily Dickinson
Clarice Alfonso (guest artist) and Susan Payne O’Brien, sopranos
Rhonda Kline, piano