Side 1: “Kyoto,” “At the Detached Palace,” “The Charioteers of Delphi,” “Last Words,” “At a Texas Wishing Well,” and excerpts from The Changing Light at Sandover. Side 2: “Little Fanfare for Felix Magowan,” and “In the Hall of Mirrors.” Recorded April 26, 1985. Performers: Michael Beckerman, Harold Blumenfeld, Michael Ludwig, David Patterson, John McIvor Perkins and Rhian Samuel. 

All recordings from “James Merrill, An Evening of Words and Music: Settings of James Merrill's Poems by Faculty and Alumni Composers of WU Composers,” Recording 0100, Modern Literature Recorded Multimedia Collection, Washington University Libraries Department of Special Collections. 

Special thanks to Joel Minor, Curator, Modern Literature Collection/Manuscripts, Washington University Olin Library, and Jim Hone, Film & Media Digital Archivist, Washington University Film & Media Archive. 


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