daron aric hagen
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Heart of the Strangersong cycle for voice and piano (1983-1999) Premiere buy the music 11 June 1999
Ham Concert Hall, Las Vegas, Nevada
Paul Kreider, baritone / Daron Hagen, pian
20 September 1999
Baylor University Concert Hall, Waco, Texas
Paul Kreider, baritone / The Baylor Wind Ensemble / Michael Haithcock Instrumentationvoice and piano
Duration17'
TextAndrei Codrescu, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, William Blake, John Keats, Kim Roberts, A.E. Houseman, Gwen Hagen, Walt Whitman, Theodore Roethke (E)
Program Note1. Symmetry(Andre Codrescu)
2. Even Twilight(Charles Baudelaire, trans. by the composer) 3. It Weeps in My Heart(Paul Verlaine, translated by the composer) 4. To Nobodaddy(William Blake) 5. Dawlish Fair(John Keats) 6. Under the Night Sky(Kim Roberts) 7. O, When I Was in Love With You(A.E. Houseman) 8. An Irony(Gwen Hagen) 9. Specimen Case(Walt Whitman) 10. Song(Theodore Roethke) The cycle was first recorded and premiered by baritone Paul Kreider, accompanied by the composer, at Ham Concert Hall in Las Vegas, Nevada on 11 June 1999. — Burning Sled, 1999
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