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Songs and Song Cycles
On the Fault of a Crooked Earth
Soprano, piano
Year Written: 1997
Duration: 10:00
Premiered By
Nancy Ogle, soprano; American Composers Alliance Festival, NYC, 1997
Text: Richard Carlson
Outside of Minneapolis, the Grecian landscape I would tend is frozen white
The Russian olive trees no longer dressed with leaves
No wild roses where they ought to be nor trumpet flowers on the vine
Not a single dandelion to brave with me this funereal procession
My spring to summer child that was of so much promise
Now to the bone, pale and dying a’lay its mother’s frosted arms
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