Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time
# Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time

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Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time is the eighth studio album of poetry spoken and sung by American singer-songwriter Joan Baez, released in 1968. Composer-conductor Peter Schickele (of P. D. Q. Bach fame) did the orchestration, as he had on Baez's previous albums Noël (1966) and Joan (1967).

The album was released during a time when many folk, pop and rock artists were experimenting with mixing their music with classical orchestration (e.g. The Beatles, Judy Collins, The Rolling Stones.)

## Track listing

### Side 1

* "Old Welsh Song" (Henry Treece)
* "I Saw the Vision of Armies" (Walt Whitman)
* "Minister of War" (Arthur Waley)
* "Song In the Blood" (Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jacques Prévert)
* "Casida of the Lament" (J.L. Gili, Federico García Lorca)
* "Of the Dark Past" (James Joyce)
* "London" (William Blake)
* "In Guernica" (Norman Rosten)
* "Who Murdered the Minutes" (Henry Treece)
* "Oh, Little Child" (Henry Treece)
* "No Man Is an Island" (John Donne)

### Side 2

* "Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man" (James Joyce)
* "All the Pretty Little Horses" (Traditional)
* "Childhood III" (Arthur Rimbaud, Louis Varese)
* "The Magic Wood" (Henry Treece)
* "Poems from the Japanese" (Kenneth Rexroth)
* "Colours" (Peter Levi, Robin Milner-Gulland, Yevgeny Yevtushenko)
* "All in green went my love riding" (E. E. Cummings)
* "Gacela of the Dark Death" (Federico García Lorca, Stephen Spender)
* "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" (Wilfred Owen)
* "Evil" (N. Cameron, Arthur Rimbaud)
* "Epitaph for a Poet" (Countee Cullen)
* "Mystic Numbers- 36"
* "When The Shy Star Goes Forth in Heaven" (James Joyce)
* "The Angel" (William Blake)
* "Old Welsh Song" (Henry Treece)

## Personnel

* Joan Baez – vocals, guitar
* Peter Schickele - composer, conductor

## Chart positions

| Year | Chart | Position |
| - | - | - |
| 1968 | Billboard Pop Albums | 84 |
