English Art Songs

A collection of seven English art songs for vocal study for high, medium, and low voices. Invocation, for high voice, sets a poem by Stephen Vincent Benet from "John Brown's Body." In the Pale

Bells and Grass portrays five intimate scenes, in which small things come into focus and the world recedes: a nightingale’s song echoing from a nearby wall, the bright sun and the waves of

This collection of songs for soprano and piano by Zachary Wadsworth includes the following titles: Lay Thy Cheek to Mine, Love (text by Duncan Campbell Scott); Deep Inside the Woods

With renewed interest in the music of Poldowski in recent years, this critical edition of her songs is a welcome addition to the vocal repertoire. The edition, in two volumes, present all 36 of Poldowski's

This song is from a projected musical film created by director/writer Margaret Constantas. On the Wentloog Levels near Cardiff, two artisan shoemakers, husband and wife, have fallen on hard times. Their

The poetry of Emily Dickinson is especially appealing due to the wide range of topics, diversity of mood, and peculiar imagination of the poet. The writings are reflective, passionate, witty, sensuous,

Fables for a Prince evokes images of aristocratic life in days past, when a young prince would be taught his lessons always with an appreciation of him one day becoming the king. Both animals and

Letters from Edna presents eight letters sent by the great American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay to members of her family, friends, and business associates. The letters describe the people Millay

Lincoln was commissioned for the Lincoln Symposium, Concord, Massachusetts, in celebration of the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth, February 13, 2009. The string orchestra is scored for

Lovestars is a set of five love songs on the poetry of E. E. Cummings, which is at once celebratory of both the spiritual and physical realms that are part of our common human experience of

O Mistress Mine follows a narrative arc illuminating the ever-changing nature of love, from the time we first encounter it as youths to our awareness as we age of its many varying qualities.

The Poet's Calendar is based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's set of 12 poems of the same name, in which each song describes a month of the calendar year. Longfellow invokes vivid imagery from

The title Propriety comes from an archaic use of that word, meaning the "peculiarity" or "essential quality" of a person or thing, and in the case of this song cycle that subject is classical music itself.

The five letters which provide the lyrics for these songs (written by John Muir and adapted by the composer) were selected for their range of topics and sentiments. Some portray wildlife in the mountains,

Winter Windows is a cycle of songs that each offer a "window" into a different wintry scene. There is, of course, a snow-man, and there are snowflakes and fields piled high in snow drifts, but the

The title of the song cycle A World Turned Upside Down comes from an entry in "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank, reflecting the sense she felt of her world being upturned when suddenly the