Inhalt:
Songs about Spring:
Who knows if the moon's a balloon
Spring is like a perhaps hand
In Just-spring
In Spring comes
When faces called flowers float out of the ground -
Six Elizabethan Songs:
Spring
Sleep
Winter
Dirge
Daiphenia
Hymn
Letters from Composers:
Fréderic Chopin
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Franz Schubert
Johann Sebastian Bach
Claude Debussy
Giacomo Puccini -Robert Schumann
To Be Sung Upon the Water:
Prologue: Shadow and substance
The lake at evening
Music on the Water
Fair is the swan
In remembrance of Schubert
Hymn near the rapids
The lake at night
Epilogue: De profundis
Miss Manners on Music:
Prologue
Manners at a concert
Manners at a ballet
Manners for contemporary music
Manners at a church recital
Manners at the opera
Envoi