1. Stephen Foster - Beautiful child of song 2:57
2.Elliott Carter - Three Poems of Robert Frost: Dust of Snow (1943) 1:05
3.Elliott Carter - Three Poems of Robert Frost: Rose Family (1943) 1:07
4. Charles Wakefield Cadman - Four American Indian Songs Opus 45 no 4: The moon drops low (1909) 2:21
5. Ruth Crawford - from "Five Songs to poems by Carl Sandburg": Home Thoughts (1929) 2:45
6. Ruth Crawford - from "Five Songs to poems by Carl Sandburg": White moon (1929) 1:54
7. Ruth Crawford - from "Five Songs to poems by Carl Sandburg": Joy (1929) 1:21
8. Milton Babbitt - The Widow's Lament in Springtime (1959) 3:13
9. Warren Benson - Three solitary songs: American Primitive 2:09
10. George Crumb - The Sleeper 5:07
11. Irving Fine - My Father 2:35
12. Carrie Jacobs Bond - Nothin' But Love (1912) 0:46
13. Carrie Jacobs Bond - I love you truly from "7 Songs as unpretentious as the Wild Rose" (1901) 1:55
14. Carrie Jacobs Bond - Her Greatest Charm (1901) 0:41
15. Sergius Kagen - The Junk Man 2:18
16. Mario Davidovsky - Lost 3:36
17. John Cage - Little Four Paws from Five Songs for Contralto (1938) 1:18
18. William Schuman - Dozing on the Lawn 2:59
19. Charles Ives - She is not fair (1893) 2:04
20. Charles Ives - The All-enduring (1896) 6:03
21. Rebecca Clarke - Lethe (1941) 3:04
22. Ned Rorem - Interlude 2:04
23. Samuel Adler - Time, You Old Gypsy Man 1:34
24. Stanley Walden - Grandma (Millie) 5:13
25. Aaron Jay Kernis - Stein X Seven: No 6 - 1:53
26. William Bolcom - Twelve Cabaret Songs, Volume 1 and 2: no 4, Waitin' (1977-85) 1:51
27. Aaron Copland - There Came a Wind Like a Bugle 1:39
28. Charles Ives - Sunrise (1926) 6:07
Performed by Jan Degaetani, voice and Gilbert Kalish, piano. Joyce Robbins, violin (in Sunrise)
Digital Recording: December 21-23, 1987 at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
Intially also released on LP: Nonesuch 9-79178-2.
CD released in 1988
