Album · 1991
Songs My Children Taught Me
Tracklist
1
The Doors of Life Unveiled
Songs My Children Taught Me
4:02
2
Love Song to a Ballerina
Songs My Children Taught Me
2:27
3
A Nocturnal Waltz
Songs My Children Taught Me
1:34
4
Entering the Kingdom of Nature
Songs My Children Taught Me
2:28
5
Journey Through the Poem of a Tempestuous Sea
Songs My Children Taught Me
4:44
6
Love's Ash Dissolves
Songs My Children Taught Me
1:21
7
A Spangled Heart - Belonging to All Time and Earth
Songs My Children Taught Me
2:28
8
In China, You Know, the Emperor Is Chinese
Songs My Children Taught Me
4:12
9
Travellers From Foreign Lands
Songs My Children Taught Me
2:17
10
A Journey to the Edge of the Sea
Songs My Children Taught Me
2:14
11
The Nightingale at Court
Songs My Children Taught Me
1:25
12
High Imperial Bedsidetablesinger (Firstclass on the Left)
Songs My Children Taught Me
2:00
13
Awaiting the Angel of Death
Songs My Children Taught Me
1:05
14
A Visitation
Songs My Children Taught Me
2:05
15
The Nightingale Returns
Songs My Children Taught Me
2:27
16
The Emperor and the Nightingale
Songs My Children Taught Me
2:13
17
Thumbelina
Songs My Children Taught Me
2:59
18
The Son of Mrs. Toad
Songs My Children Taught Me
0:56
19
Butterflies Frolic and Junebugs Despair
Songs My Children Taught Me
1:29
20
In the Forest of Life
Songs My Children Taught Me
1:13
21
Invitation From a Field Mouse
Songs My Children Taught Me
2:08
22
Mr. Mole - Of the Grey Coat
Songs My Children Taught Me
1:13
23
To Step From the Border of Death
Songs My Children Taught Me
1:06
24
The Landscape of Summer Comes to an End
Songs My Children Taught Me
1:12
25
The Swallow's Song
Songs My Children Taught Me
1:14
26
Home to the Sunny Countries
Songs My Children Taught Me
2:13
27
Alina
Songs My Children Taught Me
3:26
28
An Imperial Praeludium
Songs My Children Taught Me
2:35
29
Here Come the Weavers
Songs My Children Taught Me
0:37
30
Quatracinium (Opus 87)
Songs My Children Taught Me
0:23
31
A Faithful Old Minister
Songs My Children Taught Me
0:59
32
A Complicated Fish Motif (Woven)
Songs My Children Taught Me
0:45
33
Fanfare for the Imperial Portrait
Songs My Children Taught Me
0:29
34
A Trusted Official
Songs My Children Taught Me
0:20
35
The Emperor's Dream
Songs My Children Taught Me
1:00
36
An Imperial Inspection
Songs My Children Taught Me
0:35
37
The Weaver's Nocturne
Songs My Children Taught Me
0:52
38
The Imperial Fitting
Songs My Children Taught Me
1:01
39
The Emperor's Procession - An Imperial Postludium
Songs My Children Taught Me
4:17
In print
First pressed 1991 — 3 pressings across 2 countries.
Credits
Charlie Bisharat
Instrument · violin
Charlie Haden
Instrument · double bass
Kurt Wortman
Instrument · drums [snare], cymbal, gong, tambourine, other [various other struck objects]
Paul McCandless
Instrument · oboe, english horn, clarinet [bass], saxophone [soprano, and sopraninorota], flute [selje]
Peter Maunu
Instrument · guitar
Mark Isham
Producer
Sam Sutherland
Producer · executive producer
Gary Barlough
Programming
Mark Birmingham (2)
Programming
Ben Rogers
Recording
Fred Vogler
Recording
Larry Mah
Recording
Rusty Striff
Recording
Stephen Krause
Recording