GENIUS CHILD

Composer: Ricky Ian Gordon
Lyricist: Langston Hughes

Opened: March 1993, Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, N.Y.C.
Performances: Unknown

Note: This is a song cycle.

Border Line:

1. Strange Hurt, CD/RCA Victor 61944 (Harolyn Blackwell with Warren Jones, piano)
2. Silver Rain, CD/Blue Griffin BGR (Nicole Cabell with Ricky Ian Gordon, piano)
3. Only Heaven, CD/PS Classics 207 (Jay Pierce with orchestra conducted by Joseph Bates)


Genius Child:

1. Strange Hurt, CD/RCA Victor 61944 (Harolyn Blackwell with Warren Jones, piano)
2. Silver Rain, CD/Blue Griffin BGR (Nicole Cabell with Ricky Ian Gordon, piano)
3. Only Heaven, CD/PS Classics 207 (Jay Pierce with orchestra conducted by Joseph Bates)


Joy:

1. Strange Hurt, CD/RCA Victor 61944 (Harolyn Blackwell with Warren Jones, piano)
2. Silver Rain, CD/Blue Griffin BGR (Nicole Cabell with Ricky Ian Gordon, piano)
3. Only Heaven, CD/PS Classics 207 (Adrienne Danrich, Jonita Lattimore, Darius de Haas, and Jay Pierce with orchestra conducted by Joseph Bates)
4. Bright-Eyed Joy: The Songs Of Ricky Ian Gordon, CD/Nonesuch 79626 (Audra McDonald, Darius de Haas, Theresa McCarthy, and Adam Guettel with musical direction by Eric Stern)
5. Island Of Hope: New American Choral Music, CD/Albany Music 545 (New Amsterdam Singers with orchestra conducted by Clare Longstretch)]
6. Piano Music Of Ricky Ian Gordon, CD/Blue Griffin Recoding BGR223 (John Nauman, piano)


Kid In The Park:

1. Strange Hurt, CD/RCA Victor 61944 (Harolyn Blackwell with Warren Jones, piano)
2. Silver Rain, CD/Blue Griffin BGR (Nicole Cabell with Ricky Ian Gordon, piano)
3. Only Heaven, CD/PS Classics 207 (Jay Pierce with orchestra conducted by Joseph Bates)
4. Bric-A-Brac: Ricky Ian Gordon Sings Ricky Ian Gordon, CD/Blue Griffin  BGR221 (Ricky Ian Gordon, piano and voice)
5. The New Amercian Art Song, CD/GPR Records (Daniel Okulitch)


My People:

1. Strange Hurt, CD/RCA Victor 61944 (Harolyn Blackwell with Warren Jones, piano)
2. Silver Rain, CD/Blue Griffin BGR (Nicole Cabell with Ricky Ian Gordon, piano)
3. Dreamer: A Portrait Of Langston Hughes, CD/Naxos 8.559136 (Darryl Taylor)
4. Only Heaven, CD/PS Classics 207 (Adrienne Danrich, Jonita Lattimore, Darius de Haas, and Jay Pierce with orchestra conducted by Joseph Bates)


Prayer:

1. Strange Hurt, CD/RCA Victor 61944 (Harolyn Blackwell with Warren Jones, piano)
2. Silver Rain, CD/Blue Griffin BGR (Nicole Cabell with Ricky Ian Gordon, piano)


Strange Hurt:

1. Strange Hurt, CD/RCA Victor 61944 (Harolyn Blackwell with Warren Jones, piano)
2. Silver Rain, CD/Blue Griffin BGR (Nicole Cabell with Ricky Ian Gordon, piano)


To Be Somebody:

1. Strange Hurt, CD/RCA Victor 61944 (Harolyn Blackwell with Warren Jones, piano)
2. Silver Rain, CD/Blue Griffin BGR (Nicole Cabell with Ricky Ian Gordon, piano)


Troubled Woman:

1. Strange Hurt, CD/RCA Victor 61944 (Harolyn Blackwell with Warren Jones, piano)
2. Silver Rain, CD/Blue Griffin BGR (Nicole Cabell with Ricky Ian Gordon, piano)


Winter Moon:

1. Strange Hurt, CD/RCA Victor 61944 (Harolyn Blackwell with Warren Jones, piano)
2. Silver Rain, CD/Blue Griffin BGR (Nicole Cabell with Ricky Ian Gordon, piano)