Here’s a performance by Stephanie Jenkins 

and Liz Gundlogson, from a conference performance in Miami.

10:00 minutes

I have wanted to write something for my friend Stephanie Ratté ever since she suggested and performed in the quartet that became "Avaloketeshvara's Taxi." These pieces are very pictoral, inspired as they are by stanzas of Stevens' famous poem, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." 

This performance is by Stephanie Jenkins and Liz Gundlogson

1.

 The river is moving. 

 The blackbird must be flying.

2.

 I do not know which to prefer, 

 The beauty of inflections 

 Or the beauty of innuendoes,

 The blackbird whistling

 Or just after 

3.

 The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.

 It was a small part of the pantomime.

4.

 When the blackbird flew out of sight,

 It marked the edge 

 Of one of many circles. 

5.

 I know noble accents

 And lucid, inescapable rhythms; 

 But I know, too,

 That the blackbird is involved

 In what I know.