Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs
(1995)
Written for high voice and piano, Gordon has set ten poems of Langston Hughes in this late twentieth-century song cycle.
SONGS:
- 1. Winter Moon
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- 2. Genius Child
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- 3. Kid in the Park
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- 4. To Be Somebody
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- 5. Troubled Woman
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- 6. Strange Hurt: Short Version
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- 6. Strange Hurt: Long Version
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- 7. Prayer
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- 8. Border Line
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- 9. My People
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- 10. Joy
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
