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for high voice and piano | 1'50" | The text comes from Whitman’s “When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d,” a lengthy elegy in memory of Abraham Lincoln. My choral setting of another part of this poem has been my most popular work to date. I composed “Sing on there in the swamp” just a few months later and it is in a […] More info & view score » | ||||
for high voice and piano | 3'45" | A setting of a serene, winter poem by the great Elinor Wylie. More info & view score » | ||||
for lyric tenor and piano | 15' | “Chamber Music” is an eight-song cycle for tenor and piano that sets love poems written by James Joyce. More info & view score » | ||||
for male voice and piano | approx. 25' if performed complete | A celebration of Lewis Carroll’s wit, loopy logic, and love of the world of children, “A Lewis Carroll Songbook” includes settings of favorite poems such as Beautiful Soup, Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat, and The Mad Gardener’s Song. Also included are Pen & Ink, Voice of the Lobster, Salmon Song, Speak Softly to Your Little Boy, […] More info & view score » | ||||
for high voice and piano | 1'00" | A brief, energetic setting of a poem from Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Jungle Book.’ More info & view score » | ||||
for high voice and piano | 2'00" | A short, ethereal setting of a lesser-known passage from Song of Solomon. More info & view score » | ||||
Tenor solo, men's chorus, and piano | approx. 2' | They Shall Not Hurt, a short Jewish hymn with a flowing melody, expresses clear-eyed but heart-felt devotion. Sung in Hebrew and English and relatively easy to perform, it is an ideal work for Friday night Sabbath service or concert setting. Arthur Lazarus (1925-1993) was music director for Temple Beth Sholom in New City, New York, […] More info & view score » | ||||
male voice and piano | approx. 3'30" | Lewis Carroll’s Mad Gardener, often mistaken for a nonsense poem, is actually a series of humorous metaphors relating to the minor disappointments and hassles of everyday life, a list of complaints still relevant now in the 21st century. While the protagonist attempts to peacefully cultivate his garden, e.g. live his life, his relatives overstay their […] More info & view score » | ||||
male or female voice and piano | approx. 2' | Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen! Who for such dainties would not stoop? Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! Beau–ootiful Soo-oop! Beau–ootiful Soo-oop! Soo–oop of the e–e–evening, Beautiful, beautiful Soup! Beautiful Soup! Who cares for fish, Game, or any other dish? Who would not […] More info & view score » | ||||
Soprano and organ | 4' 00" | Sacred song for voice and organ. My setting of Shema Israel. Margaret Tyler, soprano Simon Holt, organ More info & view score » |