What Time Is It Anyway? Across a Day in American Song @ Seattle Art Museum

Join us for a captivating exploration of time through the lens of American song at the Seattle Art Museum!

🌅 DAYBREAK

• Will There Really Be a Morning? by Ricky Ian Gordon (Poem: Emily Dickinson)
• The Daisies by Samuel Barber (Poem: James Stephens)
• It’s All I Have to Bring Today by Craig Urquhart (Poem: Emily Dickinson)
• Arise, My Love by Richard Hundley (Biblical text from The Song of Solomon)
• Early in the Morning by Ned Rorem (Poem: Robert Hillyer)

🌞 MIDDAY

• Spring Wind by Eric Thiman (Poem: Christina Rossetti)
• Silent Noon by Shona Mackay (Poem: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
• An Old Tune by Lockrem Johnson (Poem: Robert Abraham)
• Afternoon on a Hill by Richard Hundley (Poem: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Heavenly Grass by Paul Bowles (Poem: Tennessee Williams)
• Silent Noon by Ralph Vaughan Williams (Poem: D. G. Rossetti)

🌆 EVENING

• There Will Be Stars by John Duke (Poem: Sara Teasdale)
• A Green Lowland of Pianos by Samuel Barber (Polish Poem: Jerzy Harasymowicz, transl. Czesław Miłosz)
• O Boundless, Boundless Evening by Samuel Barber (Poem: Georg Heym)
• Sure on This Shining Night by Samuel Barber (Poem: James Agee)
• Good Morning Midnight by Lori Laitman (Poem: Emily Dickinson)
• Good Night by Lockrem Johnson (Lyrics from the tombstone of Mark Twain’s daughter)

🌄 DAWN

• Will There Really Be a Morning? by Richard Hundley (Poem: Emily Dickinson)

Featuring guest artists Clarice Alfonso and Susan Payne O’Brien (sopranos), with live piano by Rhonda Kline.

📍 Location: 1300 1st Ave, Seattle, WA 98101
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