for mezzo-soprano, viola and piano
poetry by: Wallace Stevens, Robert Bly, Adelaide Crapsey, Ezra Pound
duration: 7 minutes
- Blackbird (Stevens)
- After Working (Bly)
- November Night (Crapsey)
- In a Station of the Metro (Pound)
- Night (Bly)
Five Short Songs was the winner of the Music Inter Alia Composition Prize in Winnipeg, 1987