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An Offering |
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For Baritone, Clarinet, and Piano |
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Poems by Walt Whitman |
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Offerings (1:03) |
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Beautiful Women (0:41) |
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O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
(1:33) |
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O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
(1:33) |
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To Old Age (1:15) |
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From Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar |
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For Baritone, Clarinet, and Piano |
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Texts by Mark Twain |
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6. |
Introduction: It is by the goodness
of God (0:37) |
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Set
One: (2:50) |
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When in doubt |
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One of the most |
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Let us be thankful |
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Interlude I: In the first place (0:27) |
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Set Two: (4:08) |
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We should be careful |
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Man is the only animal |
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Nature made the locust |
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Interlude II: (0:17) |
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Noise proves nothing |
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The holy passion |
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Nothing so needs
reforming |
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She was not quite |
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Turning to the Center |
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For Baritone/Percussion, Clarinet/Bass
Clarinet, |
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Synthesizer, and Sound System |
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Poems by Rumi |
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12. |
Prelude (2:26) |
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13. |
You
have said (3:21) |
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A secret turning in us (1:36) |
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This moment is love (4:06) |
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Keep walking (2:51) |
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Walk to the well (2:22) |
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No better love (2:04) |
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I am so small (2:51) |
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The sun is love (2:02) |
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I have lived (2:25) |
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I stand up (2:03) |
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Dance (2:41) |
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Something opens our wings (1:34) |
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Robert Best, baritone &
percussion |
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Tamara Raatz, clarinet &
bass clarinet |
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Phillip Schroeder, piano &
synthesizer |