Bittersuite. For a good dog ; The middle ; Time marches on ; Old men / text from poems by Ogden Nash -- All my pretty ones. In a tree at dawn to listen to birds ; And the birds arrive ; Purple finch ; Feeder ; Little life ; The bird inside ; Night bird ; All my pretty ones / text by Michael Dennis Browne -- Artsongs. Archaic torso of Apollo / Ranier Maria Rilke, trans. Stephen Mitchell ; The dance / William Carlos Williams ; Museum piece / Richard Wilbur ; Seurat / Ira Sadoff ; On seeing Larry River's Washington crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art / Frank O'Hara ; Moor swan / John Logan ; Warrior with shield / Michael Dennis Browne.
Compact disc. Program notes by Michael Dennis Browne and by the composer, texts in English ([15] p.) inserted in container. Håkan Hagegård, baritone ; Warren Jones, piano (1st work) ; Ruth Jacobson, soprano ; Paul Schoenfield, piano (2nd work) ; Paul Sperry, tenor ; Irma Vallecillo, piano (3rd work). English words.
