2018

When Summer Goes

Composed by Khyle Wooten
"When Summer Goes" is a song composed by Khyle Wooten on the poetry of Langston Hughes. It is the third song in the song cycle "A Journey in Love"

Audio

“When Summer Goes” (from “A Journey in Love”)
Jacob Lay, baritone; Eileen Downey, piano1:28

Khyle Wooten

Composer

Langston Hughes

Poet(s)/Writer(s)

2022

Date

University of California, Irvine, Winifred Smith Hall

Location

This recording was part of a 10am concert ("In Memorium – Dorothy Rudd Moore 1940–2022") on Saturday, October 15, 2022 during the 25th Anniversary African American Art Song Alliance Conference. The concert venue was Winifred Smith Hall at the University of California, Irvine.

Text

Passing Love by Langston Hughes

Because you are to me a song
I must not sing you over-long.
Because you are to me a prayer
I cannot say you everywhere.Because you are to me a rose —
You will not stay when summer goes.