Bird Songs for soprano and piano (2009)

texts by William Carlos Williams

i    The Manœuvre
ii    The Predicter of Famine
iii    The Woodthrush
iv    Against the Sky
v    Silence

14 minutes

This set represents the third time that I have drawn on the poetry of William Carlos Williams for texts (although the last song is a reworking of an earlier setting).   Each poem captures a scene in which the presence of one or more birds, while seemingly incidental in some instances, somehow refocuses the way we see the world and ourselves.