An a capppella setting or Ms. Willard's fanciful poem describing a musical instrument in a most unusual way. Ms. Willard was a Professor of Creative Writing at Vassar College and a Newbury Medal winer.

These three choral compositions by Boston composer Barry Singer are settings of poems by Emily Dickenson, W H Auden, and Edgar Alan Poe. They may be performed separately or as a set. Two are a cappella and