Monday, October 2, 2017

Phyllis McGinley Song Cycle

It's been a year since the bassoon world lost one of its leading figures; K. David Van Hoesen. I thought it would be fitting to upload the wonderful recording he made with Jan DeGaetani


and his daughter, Gretchen Van Hoesen


of Alec Wilder's Phyllis McGinley Song Cycle. Listen here:


Here are the poems he set: