OKCD Presents: Orchestral Recapitulations

		Three Haiku and a Poem are just that, a four-song cycle based on 3 texts written by Korneitchouk and a fourth, a poem by the famous ancient Greek poet Sappho. The former were written when the composer was in grade school studying the well-known 5-7-5 syllable structure of Japanese haiku. He is bemused to note that he had cheated somewhat by providing leading titles which in themselves are at times longer than one of the tersely limited lines. The poem by Sappho was also one discovered in the composer's own handwriting such that at first he did not remember who wrote such a splendid verse. All four were "discovered," so to speak, from his more distant youth and set to music when he had just turned 21. This recording would be then a similar - and alas much later - "rediscovery."
	1) In a Cabin by the Sea Death perch'd on the wall; A radiant starfish hangs As decoration. 2) Indoors When the faucet drips, It is a clock telling time: I am growing old.	3) An Evening Request Artist of the Dusk, On your canvas paint for me A cold wintry sky! 4) Alone The Moon and Pleiades are set. Midnight and Time spins away. I lie in bed alone.