Living in the Body

Song cycle: Burning the Woods of my Childhood; Living in the Body; Not for Burning; Lost at Table; Bring on the Rain; Crossroads

2001, rev. 2017 | soprano or mezzo-soprano/alto saxophone

Poems by Joyce Sutphen, approximately 18 minutes long.

Commissioned through a Special Projects Grant from the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Georgia Southern University for soprano Sandra McClain and saxophonist Carolyn Bryan

Song 3 has a conversion for mezzo-soprano (see catalog listing); the others are fine for mezzo without changes.

Click here to see soprano Maureen McKay and saxophonist Gary Louie's October 10 2018 performance.