Song cycle: My Hand Forever; A Blessing; A Birth; The War God’s Horse Song; Two Horses Playing in the Orchard
2006, Revised 2017 | soprano/piano.
Poems by Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), James Wright (1927-1980), James Dickey (1923-1997), and a traditional Navajo poem.
Commissioned by Jean del Santo, University of Minnesota.
Premiere recording on the December 2019 Naxos release Living in the Body: Songs of Lori Laitman, with soprano Jennifer Check and pianist Warren Jones. To purchase, please click here.