Randall Potts
Updated 2/14/21
An archived edition of a concert by Duo Cortona at the University of Missouri School of Music that features several compositions by John Liberatore with lyrics drawn from my poems in Trickster, published by the University of Iowa Press (Kuhl House Poets) 2014. John Liberatore's entire composition is titled "Songs of Bright Orange Notes," and is the second piece in the concert beginning at 8:54.
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Cover art by Esther Traugot.
© 2014 by Randall Potts.