CITY VIGNETTES is a song cycle of three Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) poems* for Tenor Vocal Solo with Oboe and Piano composed by Amy Dunker. Duration: 6:15

*From Helen of Troy and Other Poems Part III

I: Dawn

The greenish sky glows up in misty reds,

The purple shadows turn to brick and stone,

The dreams wear thin, men turn upon their beds, And hear the milk-cart jangle by alone.

II: Dusk

The city’s street, a roaring blackened stream Walled in by granite, thro’ whose thousand eyes

A thousand yellow lights begin to gleam, And over all the pale untroubled skies.

III: Rain at Night

The street-lamps shine in a yellow line Down the splashy, gleaming street,

And the rain is heard now loud now blurred By the tread of homing feet.