SONGS FOR SOLO VOICE AND PIANO
"I Shot an Arrow..." for female voice and piano
This is a setting of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1845 poem on the theme of enduring friendship, The Arrow and the Song, which begins:
I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
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Mad Gardener's Song for male or female voice and piano
Lewis Carroll's Mad Gardener is a series of funny, clever metaphors which ponder the difficulties of life. Our Gardener's marriage is unhappy, debts have eaten away his savings, and the future is murky at best.
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Beautiful Soup for male or female voice and piano
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A Lewis Carroll Songbook for male or female voice and piano
The complete set of eleven songs for voice and piano which celebrate Lewis Carroll’s wit, loopy logic, and love of the world of children. Includes settings of favorite poems such as Beautiful Soup, Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat, and The Mad Gardener’s Song as well as less-known poems such as Pen & Ink, Voice of the Lobster, Salmon Song, Doll Song, How Doth The Little Crocodile, and the darker poem Be As a Child.
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Going to the Dogs for male or female voice and piano
An affectionate tribute to dogs and the humans who love them, Going to the Dogs is a song-cycle of five short, diverse, funny, and poignant poems by Dylan Thomas, Alexander Pope, Herbert Asquith, Jonathan Swift, and John E. Donovan. Available in versions. Cover art and video by Jennifer Winn, soprano.
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"Beautiful Soup, so rich and green,
Waiting in a hot tureen! Who for such dainties would not stoop
Soup of the evening, Beautiful Soup!"
Central Park - song-cycle for two voices, male & female, and piano
A collaboration between poet Ezra Wasserman Mitchell and Bruce Lazarus, Central Park is a unified cycle of five tender, dramatic, and adoring poems descriptive of New York City's most beloved park. Themes include Bethesda Fountain, the Maine Memorial at Columbus Circle, and inscriptions on park benches.
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