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American Song is Alive and Well SongFest 2008 Raitt Recital Hall, Pepperdine University 7:00pm, June 10 Waterbird (James Purdy) Richard Hundley (b. 1931) A Literary Dinner (Vladimir Nabokov) Four Songs on Poems of Vladimir Nabukov Christopher Berg (b. 1949) INTERMISSION My Best Beloved (Francis Quarles) David Sisco (b. 1975) The Crane at Gibbs Pond (William Heyen) The Long Island Songs Tom Cipullo (b. 1960) It's All I Have to Bring Today (Emily Dickinson) Love Is David Sisco (b. 1975) Poem (Frank O'Hara) Songs on poems of Frank O'Hara, Vol. I Christopher Berg (b. 1949) The Second Law (Stephen Sandy) Letting Go Daron Hagen (b. 1961) Infrastructure David Sisco (b. 1975) The Mystery (Sara Teasdale) Mystery Lori Laitman (b. 1955) Screw Spring (William Hoffman) Richard Hundley (b. 1931) The Sick Wife (Jane Kenyan) Briefly It Enters William Bolcom (b. 1938) On the Block: Mantel Clock, Imitation Sèvres (James Merrill) Merrill Songs Daron Hagen (b. 1961) Touch Me (Stanley Kunitz) Late Summer Tom Cipullo (b. 1960) Jenny Wren (James Purdy) Richard Hundley (b. 1931) This program was devised and coached by Paul Sperry.

SongFest is supported in part by grants from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The Marc and Eva Stern Foundation, The Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, and the generosity of many individual contributors. SongFest is a California 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. All donations are 100% fully tax deductible to the full extent permitted by law.