Bolcom, Harbison, Kernis et al Heartbeats New Classical,    Innova 500    CD   15
	New songs from Minnesota for the AIDS Quilt Songbook See One Sheet
	Composers Performers Related Links Aaron Jay Kernis Aaron Jay Kernis Sample and Download Carol Barnett Bradley Greenwald Liner Notes Carolyn Jennings Brian Kent Buy from iTunes Cary John Franklin Carolyn Geltzer   Chris DeBlasio Cynthia Lohman   Craig Carnahan Douglas Shambo   Daniel Kallman Elizabeth Comeaux   David John Olson James Bohn   Janika Vandervelde John Jensen   John Harbison Jorja Fleezanis   John Musto Maria Jette   Libby Larsen Marsha Hunter   Richard Wilson MCAE Women's Choir   Stephen Houtz Patricia Kent   William Bolcom Peter Halvorsen     Stephanie Wendt     Tom Linker     Tony Holt     William Huckaby     William Parker

Title	Composer(s)	Performer(s)	Length
The Flute of Interior Time	John Harbison	John Jensen Brian Kent	2:53
The Enticing Lane	Stephen Houtz	Tom Linker Peter Halvorsen	9:03
Positive Women: Susan	Janika Vandervelde	Carolyn Geltzer Jorja Fleezanis MCAE Women's Choir	4:35
Perineo	Libby Larsen	Tom Linker Bradley Greenwald	4:57
Let it Go	Carol Barnett	Maria Jette Tom Linker	4:48
Vaslav's Song	William Bolcom	Tom Linker Tom Linker James Bohn James Bohn	2:40
We're All Pharoahs When we Die	David John Olson	John Jensen Marsha Hunter	4:44
Domination of Black	Craig Carnahan	Tom Linker Cynthia Lohman	7:20
The Loons	Carolyn Jennings	Maria Jette Bradley Greenwald	3:05
The Second Law	Richard Wilson	John Jensen Tony Holt	4:29
When I am Dead, my Dearest	Daniel Kallman	Tom Linker Patricia Kent Douglas Shambo Aaron Jay Kernis	2:47
The Blue Animals	Aaron Jay Kernis	Douglas Shambo Aaron Jay Kernis	5:54
Heartbeats	John Musto	William Parker William Huckaby	6:22
As Imperceptibly as Grief	Cary John Franklin	Elizabeth Comeaux Stephanie Wendt	3:02
Walt Whitman in 1989	Chris DeBlasio	John Jensen Brian Kent	4:07
The AIDS Quilt Songbook was conceived by the late baritone Will Parker as a continually growing collections of art songs articulating the range of emotions occasioned by the impact of the AIDS epidemic on society. This recording includes: premiére recordings of six new songs for soprano voice commissioned by Parker for his last public appearance at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis on December 1, 1992; premiére recordings of three songs for baritone voice from Parker's original collection not included on his earlier premiere Mundi compact disc; two new songs contributed to the Songbook by Aaron Jay Kernis and Cary John Franklin; alternative performances of previously recorded songs by John Harbison, William Bolcom, and Chris Deblasio; and a live recording of John Musto's songHeartbeats. from Parker's own intensely moving final public performance.
Fanfare "To date, there have been two releases of music from the AIDS-Quilt Songbook, a compilation conceived by the later baritone William Parker. The first, on Harmonia Mundi, takes the crown, thanks to Parker's greater involvement, although the second, on innova, is actually a more varied recording, per se. Both remain urgently recommended, for all kinds of reasons . . . [Heartbeats] constitutes a gripping and powerful musical and emotional experience." by John Lambert
Los Angeles Reader "... repeated listenings reveal more and more of the pieces' beauty.... The power of this material and, ultimately, the CD itself is similar to the effect of the AIDS Memorial Quilt: [the] remembrance of the joy of life, of the people who come into our lives and then leave, and the release of sadness and pain." by Sharon Smith