In Song Tapestry, mezzo-soprano Patricia Stiles performs the music of David N. Baker, Thomas Beversdorf, Don Freund, Marian L. Harrison, Émile Naoumoff, Edwin Penhorwood, P. Q. Phan, and Sven-David Sandström. Although the musicians assembled here represent varied musical traditions, they share an academic and geographical connection, practicing their craft in Bloomington, Ind., as professors and instructors at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
Tracks
CD 1
Three Songs by Don Freund
- God's Grandeur by Geraed Manley Hopkins
- Sephehstis's Song to Her Child by Robert Greene
- I Sying of a Mayden by Anonymous
Hailu by Edwin Penhorwood
- Summer Evening by Masaoka Shiki
- The Way of Zen by Matsuo Basho
- Clouds by Matsuo Basho
- Coolness by Matsup Basho
- Onitsura's First (age8) by Onitsura
- Loneliness by Hasin
- Where The Cuckoo Flies by Matsuo Basho
- Spring by Ryota
- The Sudden Chillness by Yosa bUSON
- Maple Leaces by Shiko
- Bell Tones by Matsuo Basho
- The Mushroom by Issa
- The Cuckoo by Matsuo Basho
Confession by P.Q. Phan
- Confession I by Ho xuan Huang
- Floatiing Cake by Ho Xuan Huang
- Jackfruit by Ho Xuan Huang
- Confessions II by Ho Xuan Huang
- On Sharing a Husband by Ho Xuan Huang
- Confession III by Ho Xuan Huang
Three Song by Thomas Beversdorf
- For Also Then's Until by E. E. Cummings
- Love is a Place by E.E. Cummings
25 Chanson Innocentes II by E.E. Cummings
CD 2
Songs of Living and Dying by David Baker
- Forever by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- The Place Where the Rainbow Ends by P.L Dunbar
- To a Dead Frien by P.L. Dunbar
- To Satch by Samuel Allen
- Trifle by Georgia Douglas Johnson
- Without Benefit of Declaration by Langston Hughes
Songs by Emile Naoumoff
- Compagnon de silence by Paul Valery
- Ta bonte by Emile Nerhaeren
- O mort! by Armand Marquiset
Three Songs of Love by Sven-David Sandstrom
- Vack mig till somns i dig by Gunnar Ekelof
- Hon gar med vinden I sitt har by Claes Anderson
- Manskaran lyser by Bertel Gripenberg
Songs of Nature by Marian L. Harrison
- Snow by Edward Thomas
- The Wind by Christina Rossetti
- Now Silence after Petrarch by Nicholas Kilmer