Rebellious to the end, the 16th century Hindu mystical poetess Mirabai refused to submit to a customary death on her husband's funeral pyre. Instead, she left her family behind, wrote poems to Krishna, and sang and danced them in the streets. We hear composer John Harbison's setting of some of those poems in the "Mirabai Songs," as featured on Dawn Upshaw's album Knoxville: Summer of 1915.

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