2025 credits for music, poetry and prose
PRE-SHOW
Clay Pigeons - Blaze Foley
Song For The Life - Rodney Crowell
Let The Mystery Be - Iris Dement
Deportees - Woody Guthrie
Sally's Song - Clara Carroll
THE PLAY
How Can I Keep From Singing - traditional
PROLOGUE
PART 1
Misino Horo - trad. Macedonian
Kooks - David Bowie
In First Grade - William Stafford
After Making Love We hear Footsteps - Galway Kinnell
from Beautiful Boy - John Lennon
On Being Pushed When I Was Seven - Myra Shapiro
Learning in First Grade - Jane Kenyon
Gabriel and the Water Shortage - Sharon Olds
from Pomp and Circumstance March #1 in D — Edward Elgar
Thirteen - Eamon Grennan
from The Mother - Brandi Carlisle
With Kit Aged Seven At The Beach - Kim Stafford
Be thou my Vision — trad. Christian hymn based on older traditional Irish melody (Slane)
Those Winter Sundays - Robert Hayden
fragment from Die Gedanken Sind Frei - traditional German
fragment from Meg and Jay's Theme - Aaron Marcus
I Come From a Hunting Family - based on an actual event locally
Thank You For Loving Me - Sinead O'Connor
PART 2
from The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack
I Fell In Love When I Was in Fifth Grade - with thanks to Dick Nessen
Oranges - Gary Soto
"You know, in Mojave..." - from If What I Mean is Hummingbird... - Natalie Diaz
from La Macorina - Alfonso Camin; Chavela Vargas, adapted by Susana Baca
Mad Love - Mary Oliver
Coming Home - Mary Oliver
Lime Tree Arbor - Nick Cave
To Truly Love The World - Owen Kelliher
from Sympnony #10, Gustav Mahler, 5th movement, piano arr. Aaron Marcus
Fish and Bird - Tom Waits
Give My Love To Rose - Johnny Cash
Marriage - Margaret Atwood
Homecoming - Maxine Kumin
Conversation with a Holy Woman Not Seen For Many Years - Robert Bly
from Fields of Gold - Sting
The Indigo Bunting - Robert Bly
Dance Me To The End of Love - Leonard Cohen
PART 3
from Ring Them Bells - Bob Dylan
"When I was eight" - from And There Was Light - Jacques Lusseyran
"How is it that you are still alive?" - from Patriot by Alexei Navalny
On The Wild Steppes Beyond The Baikal - traditional Russian
"Growing Up I lived With Fear All the Time" - from an interview by Krista Tippett with Dr. Melba Patillo Beals
from Beyond The Horizon - Aaron Marcus
We Are Timeless - music by Moira Smiley, text by Moira, Shruti Ramani and Kiarah O'Kane
fragment from Old Man River - Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein
Crossing the Line - Naomi Shihab Nye
PART 4
from Ride Me Down Easy, Lord - Billy Joe Shaver
"I lived for thousands of years..." a flipping of Rumi's poem
Planting Trees - Wendell Berry
"Dear relatives and friends..." - from Testament Part 1 - Wendell Berry
Crossing The Bar - Alfred Lord Tennyson, Rani Arbo, arr. the Longest Johns
Her Death - Mary Oliver
from Blackwater Woods - Mary Oliver
Gracias a la Vida - Violeta Parra
Bring Me Little Water Sylvie - Leadbelly, arr. Moira Smiley, body percussion Evie Ladin
from Make Way for the Living - Harry Manx
Boza Zvezda
Her First Calf - Wendell Berry
EPILOGUE
Hello Babies... - Kurt Vonnegut
The Main Thing is... - Grace Paley's father
Now We Press Into The Night - Whitebear
The Rose - Bette Midler
THANK YOU AND FAREWELL TO THE AUDIENCE
Never-Ending Love - Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett
(Any spoken words not listed above by Marianne Lust)
