The Heart of the Stranger The Heart of the Stranger
Song Cycle for Voice & Wind Ensemble
Original Release: August, 2003
Released on: Albany Troy
(Troy 600)

Stephen Steele, conductor
John Koch, baritone
The Illinois State University Wind Symphony
David Maslanka, producer

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"Hagen's piece, a ten-song cycle on texts of diverse poets like Codrescu, Blake, Roethke, and Whitman, features Baritone John Koch ... It is tonal ... surprising, spiky, and at moments downright pretty." --- NewMusicBox, September 2003.