"does anybody know from where it comes?"
I was listening to an interview on MPR Mid-morning in which psychology researcher Dacher Keltner, discussing communal structures, mentioned that “babies ensure their own care” by being cute and helpless. And if you’ve ever seen a sleeping baby, you can’t help but smile and say, “AWWWwwww.” Carpenter captures that sense in music paired with Tagore’s magical/mystical text.
- Audio (Lila Deis) – last.fm
- Score – artsongcentral.com
- Text (Rabindranath Tagore) – recmusic.org
- Article on Carpenter – pbs.org
Carpenter is a minor figure in American art song, but his handful of songs are well-crafted, and a pleasure both to hear and to sing. This particular song comes from his cycle of six songs, Gitanjali.
An art song a day 