You can listen and see the text here. You can find the music here and on this page of the IMSLP.
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Showing posts with label vocal music. Show all posts
Dawn
You can find the music here and on this page of the IMSLP.
Here is a link to a computer-generated audio recording.
"Dawn" is a companion song to "Daybreak" (2013), which is also set to a poem by William Carlos Williams, and is also for medium voice and piano. If performing these songs as a group, "Dawn" should follow "Daybreak."
When it's time to move on
You can listen to a computer-generated file here, and find the music here. The music is also available on this page of the IMSLP.
I wrote this piece in memory of the pianist Eric Larsen (1952-2024), who was a dear friend and chamber music partner of my very dear friend Daniel Morganstern. The poem, written by Danny's mother Milly (1913-2000), is one that he shared with me only recently, and a poem that was at the very front of both his mind and my mind during Eric's last days.
We are single threads
intertwined
in the fabric
of each other’s lives
We are words
in each other’s stories
We are notes
in each other’s songs
When it’s time to move on
We step
over the edge
into a new space
where we are transformed
as color
in the thread
as meaning
in the word
as overtone
in the note
We continue
intertwined
through life, death
and transformation
On our journey
--Milly Morganstern
Four Songs from Sunset Gun
The Forest Near Ingolstadt
The music and a computer-generated recording are available on this page of the IMSLP. You can also listen here.
Will you dance for me Vashti?
The Year, a New Year's Greeting for 2023
You can find the music for medium voice here (there's also a version for high voice). You can listen to the medium voice version here, and you can find the music for both on this page of the IMSLP.
Hope and I
You can find the music on this page of the IMSLP, and you can listen to a computer-generated recording here.
This is Susan Coolidge's complete poem. You can find out more about her here. It had been sitting on my computer for a year or so, and had been sitting on my desk for several months. It helped me a great deal to make my way emotionally through yesterday and today to work on it. And it helps to be able to share it right away.
Adventures with Alice
I. How doth the little crocodile
II. Beautiful Soup
III. I sing this song for your delight
You can find the music on this page of the IMSLP.
Evolution for high or medium voice with harp or piano
The music is available on this page of the IMSLP, and the text comes from Alice Duer Miller's 1915 Are Women People?
"My House, I Say" for Tenor and Piano
Pierrot spends a little while in the twilight
You can hear a virtual performance of it about 41 minutes into this video. UPDATE: I made a transcription for soprano or tenor with violin, and one for soprano and clarinet that you will find on the same page of the IMSLP.
I'm Staying Home for Christmas
It started bothering me. The tune fragment kept running through my head with the words, "I'm staying home this Christmas," so I had to use it in a brand-new Christmas song addressing the stamp issue and the current Christmas season. You will find the tune on the stamp at the half-way point of the song. The "original" is in F major, and this song is a whole-step lower, in the key of E-flat major.
Here's recording by Susan Nelson!
(Thank you, Susan.)
She Calls it a Fairy Tree for Mezzo-soprano, oboe, bassoon, viola, and double bass
The Months of the Year
You can listen to a computer-generated recording here.
You can find a PDF on this page of the IMSLP.
All of the things that belong to the day for low voice and piano
You can find the music here and listen to a computer-generated audio file here. It is also avaiable on this page of the IMSLP.
Listen to Susan Nelson's beautiful recording of "The Moon."
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