The monodrama Ahab is the third that Hall has created with librettist Caitlin Vincent. This ten-minute work takes an imaginary approach to the final moments in the life of Herman Melville's
"American Death Ballads was composed especially for tenor Brian Thorsett and premiered by him at the San Francisco Conservatory, November 1, 2015, with pianist John Churchwell, and at the National
Written as one continuous movement, the music begins with a haunting Aria. A chromatic musical language creates a mysterious mood. The pianist and violinist trade musical motives back and forth as equal but
A stand-alone art song for mezzo-soprano and piano on a text by Linda Pastan. Also included in Cipullo's collection Songs for Mezzo-Soprano.
Two arias from the Western opera "Riders of the Purple Sage" are included in this score for bass or baritone and piano: Ballad of Milly Erne and The Gun Song.
Love and loss are the themes of this moving poem by A.E. Housman. The musical setting for tenor and piano encapsulates the deep emotion inherent in the poem.
Singer Molly Fillmore commissioned Hall to compose songs based on six of her own poems, each poem being a poetic illumination of a lesser-known woman visual artist. Their names are also the song titles:
Excerpted from the ten-movement, 30-minute work "Insomnia," this stand-alone art song for baritone and piano is also included in Cipullo's collection Songs for Baritone, Volume 2.
Collected Songs for Soprano and Piano includes music from the following four sets of songs: Five Love Songs; Suenos de Esperanza; Three Simple Songs; and five excerpts from
A set of songs for baritone and piano included in Cipullo's collection Songs for Baritone, Volume 2 and based on the poetry of Linda Pastan. Titles include: blizzard; The Almanac of Last
A set of songs from Tom Cipullo for baritone and piano based on the poetry of Dana Gioia. Also included in the collection Songs for Baritone, Volume 2. Titles include: Rough Country; Prayer at
Emily Dickinson's nature–inspired text has sparked the creativity of many song writers. This newly engraved 2020 version of Perera song cycle is available for mezzo-soprano with piano or with
Flowers of the Soul was commissioned by Ms. Jane Wait to commemorate the renovation of the beautiful rose gardens at Yaddo, the artists' colony in Saratoga Springs, New York. I have always found
A set of seven songs based on texts by Polish poet Agata Tuszynska for mezzo-soprano and piano. Also included in Cipullo's collection Songs for Mezzo-Soprano. Titles include: Echo; Impossible;
Art song composer Juliana Hall wrote this monodrama as a gift for admired English mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately. Godiva is based on the legendary Lady Godiva and sets a libretto by Caitlin Vincent.
Commissioned by Lynx Project for its 2017 Autism Advocacy Project which sets the words of individuals with autism to music in newly commissioned art songs, Hall's six-minute song cycle for tenor
A cycle of songs for mezzo-soprano and piano set on texts by Marilyn Kallet. Also included in Cipullo's collection Songs for Mezzo-Soprano. Titles include: Why I Wear My Hair Long; Saying
William Carpenter's prose poem expresses the longing of a group of widows as they reunite with their husbands in memory. This musical setting for soprano and baritone duet with flute, viola, and piano
A set of four songs for tenor and piano based on the poetry of William Heyen. These are included in Cipullo's collection Songs for Tenor, Volume 1. Titles: Invocation; The Odor of Pear; The
Mrs. Noah is about middle-aged love. It centers around the relationship between Noah and his wife, Mrs. Noah, a name she hates being called. In this lighthearted aria, she complains that,
Walt Whitman's eight-part poem is the basis for the text of this art song composed for either soprano, mezzo-soprano, or tenor and piano. Very brief pause may be taken between each of the eight sections;
This extended setting is a sort of meditation on memories of past love, as the speaker remembers traveling old paths of place and memory. It captures the quiet calm of graceful scenes that poet Conrad Aiken