Hillary LaBonte – soprano, Kenneth Cox – flute, Derek Emch – clarinet, Gunnar Hirthe – bass clarinet, Christopher Murphy – baritone saxophone, Aaron Hynds – tuba, Kathryn Kibbe – viola, Aleksander Tengesdal – cello, Henrique Batista – percussion, Nick Fox and Zachary Nyce – piano, Maria Mercedes Diaz-Garcia – conductor

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Text: Williams, William Carlos. "Winter Sunset." A Book of Poems: Al Que Quiere! Boston: Four Seas, 1917. 21-22.

Then I raised my head

and stared out over

the blue February waste

to the blue bank of hill

with stars on it

in strings and festoons---

but above that:

one opaque

stone of a cloud

just on the hill

left and right

as far as I could see;

and above that

a red streak, then

icy blue sky!

It was a fearful thing

to come into a man's heart

at that time; that stone

over the little blinking stars

they'd set there.

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