Performance of Quatrains on a Loss at Rhymes with Opera Salon

April 3, 2017

Soprano Michele Kennedy and Pianist Emily Manzo perform Quatrains on a Loss: Aaron Siegel, Composer and Tess Taylor, Poet. March 2017.

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