A harmonica improvisation leads into a reading of Rainer Maria Rilke’s “I Live My Life”
Johann Sebastian Bach: O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (Cantata 20, Movement 11)
Felix Mendelssohn: Quartet in A minor (1847; first movement)
“Crazy Dog” from the Crow Indian tradition
“Wild Nights” by Emily Dickinson
“Advice” by Bill Holm, with improvised harmonica introduction
Ludwig van Beethoven: Elegischer Gesang (op. 118)
Theodore Roethke: “In a Dark Time”
Olivier Messiaen: O sacrum convivium! (1937)
William Blake: From “Proverbs from Hell”
Li Ch’ing-Chao: “Where Am I Going?” with harmonica improvisation
William Byrd: Ave Verum Corpus
Tarik O’Regan: Ecstasies Above (2007)
Galway Kinnell: “Middle of the Way” with harmonica improvisation
John Keats: “Great Spirits now on Earth”
Steven Stucky: Whispers (from Walt Whitman’s “Whispers of Heavenly Death”)
Li Po: “Conversation in the Mountains” (translated by Robert Payne)
J.S. Bach: Soll’s ja so sein (Cantata 40, Movement 3)
Felix Mendelssohn: Quartet in A minor (second movement)
James Wright: “Milkweed”
Felix Mendelssohn: Quartet in A minor (third movement)
Rolf Jacobsen: “Sand” (translated by Roger Greenwald)
Arvo Pärt: Da pacem Domine (1935)
Frank Ticheli: There Will Be Rest (text by Sara Teasdale)
Beatrice of Nazareth: “Grandeur of Love” (translated by Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone) with harmonica improvisation
J.S. Bach: Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden (St. Matthew Passion, Movement 62)
Felix Mendelssohn: Quartet in A minor (fourth movement)
Friedrich Holderlin: “Bread and Wine” (translated by Robert Bly)
J.S. Bach: O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (Cantata 20, Movement 11)
