For baritone and piano. A song cycle written for Stephen Salters, winner of the Naumburg Vocal Award. Commissioned by The Walter W. Naumburg Foundation. World premiere on April 29, 2002 by Stephen Salters at the Alice Tully Hall. Contents: Lady Death; The Next Table; Histrion; Ballad of the Landlord; The Embrace; Africa; To My Old Addresses. Duration: ca. 24'. Includes a guide to idiomatic notation as well as the poems from which the music was written. Score, 48 p.