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Down by the Station, Early in the Morning is a setting for baritone
or tenor voice, clarinet, and piano of John Ashbery's poem of the same
name. In the score I wanted the instruments to dramatize the
concerns of memory and loss so beautifully and poignantly
expressed in the poem.
First performance: March 12, 1987, University of Nebraska--Lincoln; Music
Now! Festival; Patrick Mason - baritone, Mark Benson - clarinet, Karen
Sigers - piano, Randall Snyder - conductor.
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