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The American composer William Bolcom (b. 1938) is best-known for his large-scale setting of William Blake's InchSongs of Innocence and Experience,Inch which is available on a 3-CD Naxos set. This new collection of Bolcom's songs also on Naxos shows the composers's lifelong fascination with Blake. It includes an early lyrical setting of Blake's poem, InchMaryInch which deals with a beautiful and intelligent young woman and her rejection by her society. In the several torch and cabaret-style works it includes, the collection also shows Bolcom's attempts to fuse classical with popular styles of music. Bolcom also has done so in his piano music, much of which is heavily influenced by ragtime. The songs on this CD are performed and selected by soprano Carole Farley with Bolcom himself at the piano. Album Tracks 1. You Cannot Have Me Now - or, the Military Orgy 2. Night, Make My Day 3. The Digital Wonder Watch 4. My Father the Ganster 5. The Last Days of Mankind 6. This Is a Face 7. Since I Have You 8. The Rabbit 9. I Am Not Free 10. For Me 11. From Wandering 12. Beware 13. I Wouldn't Die 14. I Remember 15. For Everything 16. I Have Climbed 17. Pity Me Not Because the Light of Day 18. How to Swing Those Obbligations Around 19. The Crazy Woman 20. Just Once 21. Never More Will the Wind 22. The Sage 23. O to Be a Dragon 24. The Bustle in a House 25. Night Practice 26. I Saw Eternity 27. The Fish 28. Costa Del Nowhere 29. Table 30. Mary 31. River Song 32. Messing About in Boats 33. Rat's Song 34. When We Built the Church
