Love In A Life (1981-1998), which sets poems by Browning, Alsadir, Dickinson, Byron, Roethke, Whitman and Lodge and The Heart of the Stranger (1983-1999), which includes poems by Codrescu, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Blake and Houseman, among others. Songbook also includes a Foreword by famed Tenor Paul Sperry, an Introduction by Dr. Carrie de Lapp Culver, and a useful after word by the composer that gives the background on the writing of the songs and a complete bibliography of related publications by and about Daron Hagen. This is a publication all musicians interested in serious vocal literature will want to own and cherish.
