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2.1.2.5.4: Cascaras
2.1.2.5.5: Cello Suite No. 4, Prelude
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2.1.2.5.7: A Charm for the Night Fire
2.1.2.5.8: Charms and Blessings
2.1.2.5.9: Colette's Heirlooms
2.1.2.5.10: Come, Come, Arise!
2.1.2.5.11: Dost thou in a manger lie
2.1.2.5.12: Essex Songs
2.1.2.5.13: Etz Harimon
2.1.2.5.14: Incantations
2.1.2.5.15: Irish Songs: The Praties
2.1.2.5.16: Irish Songs: Parting Glass
2.1.2.5.17: Kol Dodi
2.1.2.5.18: No Fame, No Trace
2.1.2.5.19: Old Walt
2.1.2.5.20: Phantoms and Visitations
2.1.2.5.21: Prayer
2.1.2.5.22: A Rocking Hymn
2.1.2.5.23: Songs from the F Train
2.1.2.5.24: Songs of Lament and Praise
2.1.2.5.25: A Very Special Call, Just for Her!
2.1.2.5.26: Hymns: Idumea
2.1.2.5.27: Hymns: Wayfaring Stranger
2.1.2.5.28: Hymns: Angel Band
2.1.2.5.29: Three Robes
2.1.2.5.30: Thy Lucifer
2.1.2.5.31: The Wallabout Martyrs

Chariot Wheel

song cycle for soprano, tenor, violin, and piano (2005)

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Instrumentation

S,T,Pf, Vn

Duration

18'

Text By

Omar Khayyam

Program Note

1. Come, Come, Arise!
2. I Watched a Potter at His Wheel
3. O Wheel of Heaven
4. How Beautiful They Are
5. Thanks to This Wheel of Heaven
6. The Clouds Are Still Spread Out

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