Judy Kuhn - Let The Wind Carry Me/Departure

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From her American Songbook "Finding Home" show, this is certainly the core and the centerpiece of that set (Stephen Holden of The New York Times called it, I recall, "revelatory"). It's Joni Mitchell's Let The Wind Carry Me, leading into Departure -- an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem set to music by Jeff Blumenkrantz. Just stunning. I don't think you can see it here, but at the very tail end of Departure, there's a lighting shift which reflects the final italicized lines of Millay's poem ...