Cedille Chicago Presents

This program features works inspired by verses of Carl Sandburg, François Villon, Wallace Stevens, Nikolaus Lenau, and Billy Collins. Playlist LEO SOWERBY (1895–1968) Prairie – Poem for Orchestra after Carl Sandburg (16:41) From Prairie: Tone Poems by Leo Sowerby Cedille Records CDR 90000 033 (Track 2) Czech National Symphony Orchestra Paul Freeman, conductor COLERIDGE-TAYLOR PERKINSON (1932–2004) Grass: Poem for Piano, Strings & Percussion (1956) (16:08) From Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: A Celebration Cedille Records CDR 90000 087 (Track 4) Joseph Joubert, piano Chicago Sinfonietta Paul Freeman, conductor JEHAN ALAIN (1911–1940) Dans le rêve laissé par la ballade des pendus de Villon (6:34) From Radical Piano Cedille Records CDR 90000 027 (Track 14) Easley Blackwood, piano THOMAS ALBERT (b. 1948) Thirteen Ways (1997) III. Nimble, capricious (2:28) From thirteen ways Cedille Records CDR 90000 067 (Track 14) eighth blackbird AUGUST KLUGHARDT (1847–1902) Schilflieder (Songs of the Reeds), Op. 28 (1872) Feur