The Heart of the Stranger
Stephen Steele, conductor
John Koch, baritone
The Illinois State University Wind Symphony
David Maslanka, producer
"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.