Chor & Gesang

The songs Homecoming and Quilt were commissioned by the West Chester University Poetry Conference, West Chester, Pennsylvania, and were premiered by baritone Robert Barefield and pianist Carl Cranmer...

This text has been adapted from Mark Twain's The War Prayer, which he wrote in 1904-5 to protest America's involvement in the Spanish-American War. His family convinced him to keep if from publication...

Many attribute this text to to Noah S. ('Soggy') Sweat, a judge and member of the Mississippi legislature, circa 1952. This may or may not be true, but to whomever spoke the words used here, my sincer...