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SONGS AND POETRY
(Voice and Piano)

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OP. 1 SEVEN SONGS FROM WILLIAM BLAKE (1964, 77)

  1. To Morning
  2. Love and Harmony Combine
  3. My Silks and Fine Array
  4. Memory, Hither Come
  5. How Sweet I Roamed
  6. The Wild Winds Weep
  7. I Love the Merry Dance

OP. 8 THREE SACRED SONGS ON POEMS OF JOSEPHINE ROYLE (1974-78)

  1. Lead Thou My Feet (1974)
  2. We Thank Thee (1975)
  3. The Christmas Star (1978)

OP. 9A SONG: INVOCATION OF UNITY (1974) (trad.)

OP. 9B SONG: INVOCATION OF UNITY (1985) (2nd version)

OP. 13 TWO SACRED SONGS (1975)

  1. In Prayer (Stephan Bordese, translated by Lurrine Burgess)
  2. A Psalm of Joy (Lurrine Burgess)

OP. 16 SONG: WHERE DID WE MEET BEFORE (1975) (Teresa Mitchell)

OP. 17 VISIONS FROM THE EARTH (1976) (Emily Brontë)

  1. A Vision
  2. Cold in the Earth
  3. To Imagination
  4. Come, Walk with Me
  5. Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee
  6. Child of Delight
  7. Stars
  8. The Night Wind
  9. How Clear She Shines
  10. The Messenger

OP. 19 SONG: THE INVOCATION OF PEACE (1976) (trad.)

OP. 20 SONG: THE EAGLE AND THE DOVE (1976) (Joan Dwyer)

OP. 22 SONG: LISTEN, O PILGRIM (1976) (Alice A. Bailey)

OP. 24 THE EARTH, THE WIND, AND THE SKY (1977) (Emily Brontë)

  1. For the Moors
  2. Winter Reflection
  3. Tell Me, Smiling Child
  4. The Darkened Woods
  5. Celebration
  6. Evening Landscape
  7. I'm Happiest When Most Away
  8. In Summer Moonlight
  9. The Old Hall
  10. The Harp
  11. The Traveler
  12. A Spell
  13. The Caged Bird
  14. The Pessimist
  15. No Coward Soul Is Mine

OP. 25 VISIONS FROM THE FLAME (1977) (William Blake)

  1. The Voice of the Bard
  2. The Lamb
  3. The Divine Image
  4. Ah! Sunflower
  5. I Asked a Thief
  6. The Garden of Love
  7. The Smile
  8. Mock On, Mock On
  9. The Tyger
  10. Eternity

OP. 3l TWO SONGS (1978, 81) (Howard Carey)

  1. The Voice of the Soul (1978)
  2. Wait Not (1981)

OP. 32 SONG: BE LOVED, BE JOYOUS BE FREE (1978) (Evelyn Grasing)

OP. 34 FOUR SONGS FROM SHARON (1978) (Sharon Olsen)

  1. Why Do I Miss You So?
  2. I Remember
  3. Sand and Sea
  4. Chapters

OP. 37 SONG: THE FINAL CHORD (1980) (Alice A. Bailey)

OP. 38 THE POOL OF SPIRIT (1980) (Cynthia Stuart)

  1. The Path
  2. Sleep
  3. Eclipse
  4. Be Still
  5. The Pool
  6. Morning
  7. Earth

OP. 38A SONG: MORNING (1980, arr. 1983) (Cynthia Stuart)

OP. 45 TWO CHANTS (1982,83) (unaccompanied)

  1. Send Forth (1982) (J. Mitchell)
  2. May the Holy Ones (1983) (A. Bailey)

OP. 47A SEVEN POEMS BY JOHN KENDALL (1982, arr. 1992)

  1. My Earnest Entreaties
  2. An Unwilling Boon
  3. The Unencumbered Heart
  4. The Trashmen
  5. Kinetic Force
  6. I Could Be Wrong
  7. In Each and Every One

OP. 48A FIVE POEMS OF ROBERT FROST (1982, arr. 1993)

  1. To the Thawing Wind
  2. Nightscene
  3. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
  4. Acquainted with the Night
  5. Riders

OP. 50 FIVE SONNETS BY EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1983)

  1. Night Is My Sister
  2. Columbine
  3. Time Does Not Bring Relief
  4. You'll Be Sorry
  5. Beauty

OP. 51 FIVE LYRICS BY EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1983)

  1. Summer, the Lovely
  2. The Wild Swans
  3. Travel
  4. The Dream
  5. The Return from Town

OP. 55 THREE SONGS FROM THE MYSTIC TRUMPETER (1984) (Walt Whitman)

  1. I Hear Thee Trumpeter
  2. The All-enclosing Theme
  3. A Culminating Song

OP. 61 TWO SONGS FROM ELIZABETH (1986)

  1. Within My Heart
  2. A Single Red Rose

OP. 62 THREE SONNETS OF KEATS (1986)

  1. O Solitude
  2. In City Pent
  3. My Golden Pen

OP. 68 FOUR SONNETS OF MICHELANGELO (1988)
(translated by William Wordsworth)

  1. Yes! Hope May
  2. No Mortal Object
  3. The Prayers I Make
  4. Rapt Above Earth

OP. 71 SEVEN JOURNEYS TO EARTH (1989) ( Emily Brontë)

Part One

  1. My Lady Dreams
  2. Hope
  3. Death
  4. Bright or Cloudy
  5. Douglas' Ride

Part Two

  1. The Old Stoic
  2. My Comforter
  3. Flowers to Come
  4. Lost Vision
  5. Plead for Me

Part Three

  1. Sleep Not
  2. Alone I Sat
  3. Lullaby
  4. I Am the Only Being
  5. Spirit of the Wilderness

Part Four

  1. A Holiday
  2. In Summer's Mellow Midnight
  3. The Waveless Calm
  4. The Land of Rest
  5. Always Back Returning

Part Five

  1. O Wander Not
  2. Evening Sun
  3. Love and Friendship
  4. Let the Bleeding Branch Atone
  5. In the Greenwoods

Part Six

  1. The Wind
  2. The Bluebell
  3. Her Guitar
  4. To a Bluebell
  5. A Day Dream

Part Seven

  1. To the Enduring Seas
  2. Star of Love
  3. Fall Leaves Fall
  4. The Hours of Yesternight
  5. The Wanderer from the Fold

OP. 72 SIX SONNETS BY MICHELANGELO (1989)
(translated by John Addington Symonds)

  1. From Heaven His Spirit came
  2. A Heart of Flaming Sulphur
  3. Blest Spirit
  4. He Who Ordained
  5. Choice Soul
  6. When Divine Art

OP. 73 THREE SONGS: FIRST CORINTHIANS THIRTEEN (1989)

  1. Though I Speak
  2. Love Suffereth Long
  3. For We Know in Part

OP. 78B SONG: ALWAYS MINE (1990, arr. 1991) (K.L. Anthony)

OP. 83 EIGHT POEMS BY MICKEY KING (1991)

  1. Far Away Dream
  2. Seasons
  3. Evening Prayer
  4. One Day
  5. Beyond the Sky
  6. One Day I Sat Athinkin'
  7. About Knowing Myself
  8. I'm a Special Person

OP. 84 SONG: THE MASTER'S LIFE ( 1992) (Claudia Humphrey)

OP. 88 THREE POEMS OF CÉSAR VALLEJO (1993)

  1. Los heraldos negros
  2. Idilio muerto
  3. Masa

OP. 89 LA CORONA (1993) (John Donne)

  1. Deign at My Hands (introduction)
  2. Salvation to All (annunciation)
  3. Immensity Cloistered (nativity)
  4. With His Kind Mother (temple)
  5. By Miracles Exceeding (crucifixion)
  6. Moist With One Drop (resurrection)
  7. Salute the Last (ascension)

OP. 90 THREE SONGS FOR VICKY (1993)

  1. To Dorothy (Marvin Bell)
  2. Echo (Lawrence Durrell)
  3. Country Stars (William Meredith)

OP. 92 FINAL CHANT (1993)
(unaccompanied)

OP. 94 THREE SONGS: ODE ON A GRECIAN URN (1993) (John Keats)

  1. Thou Still Unravished Bride
  2. Fair Youth Beneath the Trees
  3. Who Are These Coming to the Sacrifice?

OP. 95 FOUR SONGS IN SPANISH (1993)

  1. Muerte (Federico García Lorca)
  2. Jóvenes (Nicanor Parra)
  3. La araña (César Vallejo)
  4. La United Fruit Co. (Pablo Neruda)

OP. 96 FOUR SACRED SONGS (1993) (Gerard Manley Hopkins)

  1. A Daily Offering
  2. Pied Beauty
  3. Thee God I Come From
  4. The Windhover

OP. 97 TWO SONGS (1994) (Bill Rainwater)

  1. I Tell It
  2. Walk Through That Wall

OP. 98 THREE SONNETS (1994) (William Shakespeare)

  1. Sonnet 63
  2. Sonnet 64
  3. Sonnet 65

OP. 99 SONG: MARY STOOD WEEPING (1996) (John 20: 11-16)

OP. 103 THREE SONGS IN SPANISH (2000)

  1. La hora (Juana de Ibarbourou)
  2. Sátira filosófica (Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz)
  3. Último árbol (Gabriela Mistral)

OP. 104 FOUR POEMS BY SYLVIA PLATH (2000)

  1. Morning Song
  2. The Couriers
  3. Sheep in Fog
  4. The Applicant

OP. 106 THREE SONGS FOR A NEW MILLENIUM (2001)

  1. A Face Remembered (Stephen Clark Rose)
  2. The Kraken (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
  3. Dover Beach (Matthew Arnold)

OP. 114 FOURTEEN POEMS BY ANNE SEXTON (2002)

  1. The starry night
  2. The balance wheel
  3. I Remember
  4. Her kind
  5. With mercy for the Greedy
  6. Music swims back to me
  7. O Mary, fragile mother
  8. Frenzy
  9. Housewife
  10. Small wire
  11. Mr. Mine
  12. Where it was at back then
  13. Just once
  14. In Excelsis

OP. 115 FIVE POEMS BY VICKY (2002)

  1. It's Wise to Be Careful
  2. In the Summer of '94
  3. Every Breath I Take
  4. Lay the Chilled Body
  5. Over a Pint of Brandy

OP. 121 VISIONS FROM THE FLAME, PART TWO (2002) (William Blake)

  1. The Little Boy Lost
  2. The Shepherd
  3. My Pretty Rose Tree
  4. The Sick Rose
  5. London
  6. The Chapel of Gold
  7. To Tirzah
  8. The Fly
  9. The Lilly
  10. The Little Boy Found

OP. 126 FIVE POEMS OF HENRY VAUGHAN (Tenor and Baritone) (2004)

  1. Vain Wits and Eyes (Baritone)
  2. The Retreat (Tenor)
  3. The Pursuit (Tenor)
  4. Midnight (Baritone)
  5. The World (Tenor and Baritone)

OP. 129 TRES CUADRUPEDOS (Voice and Piano) (Jorge Luis Borges) (2004)

  1. La cierva blanca
  2. El bisonte
  3. La pantera

OP. 130 SIX POEMS OF DYLAN THOMAS (Voice and Piano) (2004)

  1. I Have Longed to Move Away
  2. Love in the Asylum
  3. The Force That Through the Green Fuse
  4. In My Craft of Sullen Art
  5. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
  6. This Is the World

OP. 131 NINE POEMS OF DELMIRA AGUSTINI (Voice and Piano) (2004)

  1. El poeta leve el ancla
  2. El intruso
  3. Lo inefable
  4. Una chispa
  5. A Eros
  6. Tu amor
  7. La cita
  8. Anillo
  9. Tus ojos

OP. 132 DIARIO ESPIRITUAL, Six Poems by Delmira Agustini (Voice and Piano) (2004)

  1. Un lago fue mi alma
  2. Mi alma fue una fuente
  3. Fue un arroyo mi alma
  4. Mi alma fue un torrente
  5. Y mi alma fue mar
  6. Mi alma es un fangal

OP. 133 TWENTY POEMS AND A LETTER OF EMILY DICKINSON (Voice and Piano) (2004)

  1. There Is Another Sky
  2. It's All I Have to Bring Today
  3. Exultation
  4. Heart, Not So Heavy As Mine
  5. Some Things That Fly
  6. To Fight Aloud
  7. Flowers
  8. An Awful Tempest
  9. You're Right
  10. Wild Nights
  11. Hope
  12. I Felt a Funeral in My Brain
  13. There's a Certain Slant of Light
  14. I Should Not Dare to Leave My Friend
  15. I'm Nobody
  16. Alone I Cannot Be
  17. The Soul Selects Her Own Society
  18. I'll Tell You How the Sun Rose
  19. No Rack Can Torture Me
  20. Reverse Cannot Befall
  21. I Smile When You Suggest

OP. 134 TEN POEMS OF FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA (2004)

  1. Narciso
  2. Canción cantada
  3. Murió al amanecer
  4. Variación
  5. De otro modo
  6. Media luna
  7. El concierto interrumpido
  8. La luna asoma
  9. Claro de reloj
  10. La soltera en misa

OP. 135 FIVE POEMS OF NICANOR PARRA (2004)

  1. La poesía terminó conmigo
  2. La montaña rusa
  3. Pido que levante la sesión
  4. Cartas a una desconocida
  5. Pensamientos

OP. 137 SEVEN SONGS ON POEMS OF FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA (2004)

  1. Gacela del amor imprevisto
  2. Gacela de amor desesperado
  3. Gacela de la raíz amarga
  4. Gacela de la huída
  5. Casida del llanto
  6. Casida de la mujer tendida
  7. Casida de la muchacha dorada

OP. 140 TEN POEMS OF KABIR (2004)

  1. Purify Your Thinking
  2. Why Should We Two?
  3. Why Should I Flail About?
  4. Between the Conscious and Unconscious
  5. Heard or Not
  6. Are You Looking for Me?
  7. Listen Friend
  8. Friend, Please Tell Me
  9. The Notes of His Flute
  10. The Guest Is Inside Me

OP. 141 A HYMN TO GOD THE FATHER (Three Songs) (John Donne) (2005)

OP. 147 TWO POEMS BY ROBERT LOWELL (2005)

  1. The Slough of Despond
  2. The Holy Innocents

OP. 149 SEVEN SONGS ON POEMS OF THEODORE ROETHKE (2005)

  1. Open House
  2. The Unextinguished
  3. Interlude
  4. Root Cellar
  5. It Was Beginning Winter
  6. Night Crow
  7. Reply to a Lady Editor

OP. 150 THREE POEMS BY JAMES STEPHENS (2005)

  1. The Goat Paths
  2. The Snare
  3. In Waste Places

OP. 152A SEVEN SONGS ON POEMS BY WILFRED OWEN (2005)

  1. Be Slowly Lifted Up
  2. The Imbecile
  3. The Last Laugh
  4. Greater Love
  5. At a Calvary Near the Ancre
  6. The Next War
  7. The End

OP. 152B FOUR POEMS OF WILFRED OWEN (2005)

  1. This Is the Track
  2. Spring Offensive
  3. Anthem for Doomed Youth
  4. Strange Meeting

OP. 154 SEIS POEMAS DE CÉSAR VALLEJO (2005)

  1. Me desvinculo del mar
  2. Romería
  3. A mi hermano Miguel
  4. Los anillos fatigados
  5. La cólera que quiebra al hombre en niños
  6. Piedra negra sobre una piedra blanca

OP. 156 FOURTEEN POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON (2005)

  1. Beauty - Be Not Caused
  2. I Started Early
  3. Nature Is What We See
  4. The Wind Took Up the Northern Things
  5. The Spider Holds a Silver Ball
  6. I Never Saw a Moor
  7. As If the Sea Should Part
  8. Empty My Heart, of Thee
  9. There Is a Pain - So Utter
  10. I Went to Heaven
  11. The Bible Is an Antique Volume
  12. To Make a Prairie
  13. I Like to See It Lap the Miles
  14. Because I Could Not Stop for Death

OP. 157 EIGHT POEMS FROM ARIEL BY SYLVIA PLATH (2005)

  1. The Night Dances
  2. Kindness
  3. Cut
  4. Contusion
  5. The Rival
  6. Lady Lazarus
  7. Poppies in October
  8. Balloons

OP. 158 FOURTEEN POEMS BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (2005)

  1. Up-Hill
  2. A Green Cornfield
  3. By the Sea
  4. A Ring Posy
  5. Charades
  6. Confluents
  7. Beauty Is Vain
  8. Consider the Lilies of the Field
  9. From Sunset to Star Rise
  10. Who Shall Deliver Me?
  11. Some Ladies Dress
  12. A Life's Parallels
  13. Hollow Sounding and Mysterious
  14. To My Flor-di-Lisa

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