- Title
- Four Poems from the Japanese
- Year
- 1964
- Instrumentation
- women's voices, 5 harps, percussion
- Notes
- Written for the Harp and Vocal Ensemble of the Cass Technical High School in Detroit, as part of his year as Ford Foundation composer-in-residence to the Detroit Public Schools. The harpists are separated from each by groupings of singers and percussion; the sounds "fly" between the groups, both in terms of location and timbre. Translations by Kenneth Rexroth
- Reviews
- "...of 35 modern scores, my personal nominations for best pieces would start with Richard Felciano's "Four Poems from the Japanese."
—Finn, Cleveland Plain Dealer
