Thomas Buckner, baritone, and members of the SEM Ensemble perform new works for voice and instruments by three composers: Malcolm Goldstein – “wandering still”  for violin and voice (based on poetry of Basho); and “but one bird sang not” for solo violin; Jacques Bekaert – A Distant Harmony, for baritone, flute, viola, and bass clarinet, and Requiem, for baritone flute, bassoon, trumpet, french horn, trombone, timpani, violin, ‘cello, and contrabass (to poems of Whitman, Neruda, Thomas, Celan, Anna Akmatova and Jacques Bekaert); and Bun Ching Lam’s Songs from Cold Mountain (to poems by Han Shan) for baritone, flute, harp and viola; and Last Love Songs, for baritone and piano.