• Premiere: 7 October 2008 / Tarrytown, NY / Pocantico Hills / Kykuit / Donna Smith, Adrienne Danrich, and Matthew Curran, voice / Kelly Horsted, music direction
• Instrumentation: three unaccompanied voices
• Duration: 4'
• Text: Langston Hughes

Program Note

Commissioned by American Opera Projects and the Fort Greene Park Conservancy.