Before Mr. Schwarzenegger took his oath of office, Ms. Shriver read from a Maya Angelou poem.

The album also included "Still I Rise," a dedication to Rosa Parks, which was inspired by the Maya Angelou poem of the same name.

Most impressive was "Morning Grace," the quartet's arrangement of a Maya Angelou poem into an exquisite exercise in romantic minimalism whose verses rode on repetitive piano and guitar figures that dissolved into one another before cresting on a triumphal burst of drums.

Horace Jordan and Brittani Jones, both 14, delivered the Maya Angelou poem that has been repeated at graduations all over Philadelphia this year, "Still I Rise."

In August, the bikini-clad star showed off the words "Still I Rise" - the title of a Maya Angelou poem - on her pelvic bone.

But the choreography's atmosphere is also related to the lines of the Angelou poem.