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Beautiful art songs using classic American poetry by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and others. Accessible, emotionally resonant, dramatic, and frisky. Performed by mezzo soprano Barbara Hume and composer-pianist David Paul Mesler. Titles include O You Whom I Often And Silently Come, I Dream'd In A Dream, When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd, Alone And Not Alone, Thy Fingers Make Early Flowers, If I Could Tell You, The Birthplace, I Could Bring You Jewels, Yes Is A Pleasant Country, Mr Youse Needn't Be So Spry, Good Hours, and There Is A Morn By Men Unseen.

Second volume of beautiful art songs using classic American poetry by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and others. Titles include When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd, O Powerful Western Fallen Star!, In The Dooryard Fronting An Old Farm-House, Jazz Fantasia, Forgotten Wars, Snatch Of Sliphorn Jazz, Wild Nights! Wild Nights!, Ample Make This Bed, Tie The Strings To My Life, My Lord, This Is My Letter To The World, There Is No Frigate Like A Book, Me! Come! My Dazzled Face, and "Going To Him! Happy Letter! Tell Him."