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The Nightwatch           two tiny love songs for high voice and either chamber orchestra or piano   [5']

"Assurance," the first song, with astonishing melodic purity, opens the heart in a soaring yet poignantly simple expression of love: the words of the late poet William Stafford's assurance to his wife that, even after his death, she would never be alone because his presence, through the prism of her own devotion, would pervade her perceptions of the natural world.

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"Nightwatch," the second, eponymous song, is an outpouring of regret at leaving a lover, a river of flowing harmony in the melody reflects the flood of feelings as well as the water imagery of Madeleine Tiger's poem.

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