Songs with Piano
ARBUTUS (Adelaide Crapsey)
High Voice and Piano BERMUDAS (Andrew Marvell), Op. 37 Vocal Duet (High and Middle Voice) and Piano Publisher: G. Schirmer CHANT D’EXIL (Poems of Marcel Osterreith) (2002) Tenor and Piano 1. Lucioles. 2. Anniversaire 3. Chant du Kisandji Commissioned by Claudine Torfs CHRISTMAS 1951 (John Fandel) High Voice and Piano A CHRISTMAS SONG (Jacques Mitchell) (1974) Middle Voice and Piano A CRADLE SONG (W. B. Yeats) (2007) Middle Voice and Piano CUT GRASS (Philip Larkin) (2003) High Voice & Piano or Middle Voice and Piano, (Also, High Voice and String Quartet) DAPHNE (Harry Duncan) (1955) High Voice and Piano THE DARKLING THRUSH (Thomas Hardy) (2004) Middle Voice and Piano THE DUST OF SNOW (Robert Frost) (1954) High Voice and Piano ELEVEN SONGS Middle Voice and Piano 1. Where the Music Comes From (Lee Hoiby) 2. Beginning My Studies (Walt Whitman) 3. A Clear Midnight (Walt Whitman) 4. The Lamb (Wm. Blake) 5. The Shepherd (Wm. Blake) 6. An Immorality (Ezra Pound) 7. What If . . ? (S. T. Coleridge) 8. Jabberwocky (Lewis Carroll) 9. Lady of the Harbor (Emma Lazarus) 10. She Tells Her Love (Robert Graves) 11. To an Isle in the Water (W. B. Yeats) Publisher: G. Schirmer THE ENGLISH PAINTER (Ruth Draper) (1990) Scene for Middle Voice and Piano O FLORIDA (Five Poems by Wallace Stevens) (1983 Middle Voice and Piano (also with string quartet) 1. Floral decorations for bananas 2. Gubbinal 3. Continual Conversation with a Silent Man 4. Before my door 5. O Florida, venereal soil! GO AND CATCH A FALLING STAR (John Donne) High Voice and Piano INVESTITURE AT CECCONI’S (James Merrill) (1991) Baritone and Piano, Written for the AIDS Quilt Songbook I HAVE A DREAM (M.L. King), Op. 46 Low voice and Piano (or orchestra) Publisher: Rock Valley/Schott Music I WAS THERE (Five Poems of Walt Whitman), Op. 4 Baritone and Piano 1. Beginning My Studies 2. I Was There 3. A clear midnight 4. O Captain, My Captain! 5. Joy, Shipmates, Joy! Publisher: G. Schirmer JEAN QUI RIT (Tennessee Williams) (1979) High Voice and Piano LIED DER LIEBE (Holderlin) (1984) Middle Voice and/or High Voice and Piano THE LIFE OF THE BEE (Five Poems by Jeffrey Beam) (2002), Op. 68 Mezzo Soprano, Cello and Piano Commissioned by Shauna Holiman LOVE, LOVE TODAY (Charlotte Mew) (1970) High Voice and Piano NERO AND SPORUS (Aldous Huxley) (1952, rev. 1999) High Voice and Piano NIGHT (Alkman) Bass-Baritone and Piano NIGHT SONGS (Four Poems of Adelaide Crapsey) (1950, rev. 1979) High Voice and Piano 1. Night 2. Pierrot 3. Angelique 4. The Shroud NUITS (Marguerite Duras) (2005) High Voice and Piano O LET US HOWL (John Webster, Duchess of Malfi) (rev. 2000) In High and Medium keys ON THE MOUNTAIN (P. B. Shelley) Middle and High versions and Piano O STAR (John Fandel) (1951, rev. 1979) High Voice and Piano PAS DANS MON COEUR (Marcia Nardi) High Voice and Piano A POCKET OF TIME (Elizabeth Bishop) High Voice and Piano RAIN FOREST (Four Poems by Elizabeth Bishop) (1996), Op. 65 Baritone and/or Mezzo Soprano, Wind Quintet and Piano 1. Giant Toad 2. Strayed Crab 3. Giant Snail 4. Sandpiper First performance Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival THE RIVER-MERCHANT’S WIFE (Ezra Pound) (1962, rev. 1995) High Voice and Piano THE SHINNING PLACE (Five Poems of Emily Dickinson) High Voice and Piano 1. The shining place 2. A letter 3. The drowned boy 4. Wild nights 5. There came a wind like a bugle Publisher: Peer/Southern SOMEDAY I’LL KNOW (Hoiby) (1942) Voice and Piano SONG FOR LEONTYNE, Op. 32 High Voice and Piano 1. The doe (John Fandel) 2. Evening (Wallace Stevens) 3. Autumn (Rainer Maria Rilke) 4. Winter song (Wilfred Owen) 5. In the wand of the wind (John Fandel) 6. The serpent (Theodore Roethke) Written for Leontyne Price Publisher: Peer/Southern SONG IN SEPTEMBER (John Fandel) High Voice and Piano SONGS OF THE FOOL (“Twelfth Night”) High Voice, Lute, Guitar (or Keyboard) 1.O Mistresse Mine 2. Come Away, Death 3. When that I was an a little tiny boy |
SONNETS AND SOLILOQUIES (Shakespeare) (2003), Op. 69
Soprano and Piano ( or string quartet) 1. If Music Be the Food of Love (Twelfth Night) 2. Let me not to the marriage of true minds (CXVI) 3. Oft, when thou, my music, music play’st (CXXVIII) 4. The quality of mercy is not strained (The Merchant of Venice) Commissioned by the Arizona Chamber Music Festival SOUTHERN VOICES (1990-1996), Op. 53 Mezzo Soprano and Piano 1. Butterflies (A. R. Ammons) 2. Lullaby (Robert Penn Warren) 3. Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter (J. C. Ransom) 4. Berenice Sadie Brown (Carson McCullers) Commissioned by Lester Senter THREE AGES OF WOMEN (Elizabeth Bishop) (1990), Op. 51 Middle or High Voice and Piano 1. Manners 2. Filling station 3. Insomnia Publisher: Peer/Southern Commissioned for Phyllis Bryn-Julson THREE FRENCH SONGS (Text by Arthur Rimbaud) (1952-82), Op.36 Middle Voice and Piano 1. Le coeur vole 2. L’eternite 3. Reve pour l’hiver Commissioned by William Parker THREE WOMEN, Op. 47 High Voice and Piano (also for voice, clarinet/saxophone and piano) 1. Miss Alma Calls (Tennessee Williams) 2. Goodby, Goodby World (Thornton. Wilder) 3. The Waltz, (Dorothy Parker) Commissioned for Karen Beardsley THIRTEEN SONGS High Voice and Piano. 1. Summer Song (John Fandel) 2. She Tells Her Love (Robert Graves) 3. To an Isle in the Wateer (W. B. Yeats) 4. Where the Music Comes From (Lee Hoiby) 5. The Lamb (Wm. Blake) 6. The Shepherd (Wm. Blake) 7. An Immorality (Ezra Pound) 8. always it’s spring (e. e. cummings) 9. What if . . ? (S. T. Coleridge) 10. Jabberwocky (Lewis Carroll) 11. The Message (John Donne) 12. Lady of the Harbor (Emma Lazarus) 13. Twenty-eight Young Men (Walt Whitman) Publisher: G. Schirmer TWO PATHWORK SONGS (Hoiby) 1. Let Go, Let God 2. As the Work Is Done Voice and Piano TWO POEMS OF VILLIERS DE L’ISLE ADAM (trans. R. Wilbur) (1952, rev. 1979) High Voice and Piano 1. The Gifts 2. The Avowal WHEN TO HER LUTE (Thomas Campion) Middle Voice and Piano WHERE THE MUSIC COMES FROM (From, choral versions) Publisher: G. Schirmer WHY DON’T YOU? (Robert Beers) (1983) Middle Voice and Piano WINTER AND SUMMER (Ricardo Castro) (2004) High and Medium Keys and Piano |