The Seed of Dream

Song cycle: I Lie in This Coffin; A Load of Shoes; To My Child; Beneath the Whiteness of Your Stars; No Sad Songs, Please

2004 | baritone or mezzo-soprano/cello/piano

Poems by Vilna Ghetto survivor Abraham Sutzkever, with translations by C.K. Williams and Leonard Wolf.

Commissioned by Music of Remembrance, Seattle, WA in 2005. 18 minutes for the cycle.

To purchase the Naxos recording, please click here.

Independent Opera Company's marvelous film about The Seed of Dream can be viewed here.