PROGRAM NOTE

The Burning Heart song cycle was composed for the 2012 Staunton Music Festival. The work consists of settings of Japanese love poems (Haiku) translated by Kenneth Rexroth and are in four large volumes, each volume composed for a different voice type and piano. The poems express in very little words, young and mature love, conveying intimacy, sensuality and angst. 

PERFORMANCE HISTORY

April 14, 2019: Wayne Arthur Paul (Bar.) and Hsin-Chiao Liao (Piano), National Sawdust, NY

April 11, 2019: Wayne Arthur Paul (Bar.) and Hsin-Chiao Liao (Piano), Bard Conservatory of Music, NY

August 24, 2013: Ryland Pope (Baritone), Gabriel Dobner (Piano), Staunton, VA