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Carl Fischer new and unusual solo vocal music
Samuel Adler
- "Of Saints and Sinners"
- Texts by Jehoash, Charles Reznikoff, Robert Mezey, Irving Feldman, Walter Kaufmann.
- Solo Mezzo soprano, piano
- "Canto V"
- arr. Hyam Plutzik
- Solo soprano, Flute, Cello, 3 percussion
- "The Passionate Sword"
- Text by Jean Starr Untermeyer, Louis Untermeyer
- Solo baritone, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion
- "Nuptial Scene" (1975) 10’
- Text: 15th century Catalonian-Hebrew wedding text
- Solo mezzo-soprano, flute, oboe, bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, celesta,
percussion
Steven Albert
- "To Wake the Dead" 28’
- Text by James Joyce
- Solo soprano, flute, alto flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano,
harmonium
Warren Benson
- "Three Solitary Songs" 5’
- Text by Earle Birney, William Jay Smith, Kenneth Patchen
- Medium voice, piano
Henry Brant
- "Curriculum" 15’
- Text by Patricia Brant
- Solo baritone, bass flute, bass clarinet, timpani, percussion, piano, viola, cello, bass
- "An Era Any Time of Year" 18’
- Text by Paul Zukovsky
- Solo baritone, piano, percussion
- "The Fire Garden" 12’
- Text by Cia Brant
- Solo tenor or Soprano, optional unison voices, flute, harp, piano, timpani, percussion
- "Pathways to Security"
- Solo baritone, flute, picc., clarinet, bass clarinet, timpani, perc., violin, viola,
cello, bass
Ernest Chausson
- "Chanson Perpetuelle" 8’
- Text by Charles Cros
- Solo soprano, string quartet, piano
Michael Colgrass
- "Mystery Flowers of Spring" 4’
- Solo soprano, piano
- "New People" 17’
- Solo mezzo-soprano, viola, piano
- "Night of the Raccoon" 15’
- Solo soprano, alto flute, perc., harp, piano, elec. piano, celesta
Sebastian Currier
- "Vocalissimus"
- Soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano perc.
Conrad De Jong
- "Song and Light" 5’
- Text by Irving Feldman
- High voice, tuned percussion, piano
- "Four Songs for High Voice and Piano" 8’
- Text by Tom McKeown
- High voice, piano
Jon Deak
- "The Ugly Duckling"
- Solo soprano, contrabass, 2 violins, viola, cello
Norman Dello Joio
- "Lamentation of Saul" 20’
- Text by D.H Lawrence
- Solo baritone, flute, oboe, clarinet, viola, cello, piano
David Epstein
- "Excerpts from a Diary" 12’
- Text by Walter Benton
- Solo baritone, piano
- "Fancies" 9’
- Text by Emily Dickinson
- Solo high voice, clarinet
- "The Seasons" 12’
- Text by Emily Dickinson
- Solo soprano, piano
- "The Song of Isaiah" 10’
- solo soprano, piano
Lukas Foss
- "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" 17’
- Solo soprano or mezzo soprano, flute, perc., piano
Daron Hagen
- "Songs of Madness and Sorrow" A Dramatic Cantata 25’
- Solo tenor, fl., ob., cl., bn.; hn., trp.; perc.; vn.(3), va., vc., cb., pno.
- "Muldoon Songs"
- Solo Voice, piano.
- "Three Silent Things"
- Solo Soprano; vn., va., vc., pno.
Howard Hanson
- "Four Psalms" 18’
- Solo baritone, 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos
Arthur Honegger
- "Les Paques a New York" 5’
- Solo medium voice, string quartet
Jean Eichelberger Ivey
- "Terminus" 10’
- Solo mezzo-soprano, two-channel tape
- "Three Songs of Night" 14’
- Text by Walt Whitman
- Solo soprano, alto flute, Bb clarinet, viola, cello, piano
- "Solstice" 15’
- Solo soprano, flute, percussion, piano
- "Prospero" 8’
- Solo bass, four-channel tape, horn, percussion
Ulysses Kay
- "Fugitive Songs" 18’
- Texts: Elsa Barker, Witter Bynner, Hermann Hagedorn, Lizette W. Reese, Cole Young Rice,
Ridgely Torrence, Florence Wilkinson
- Solo mezzo soprano, piano
- "Jersey Hours"
- Voice, harp or piano
David Maslanka
- "Five Songs"
- Solo soprano/baritone, piano
Jan Pfischner McNeil
- "Three Preludes to the Aureate Earth"
- Solo soprano, six instruments
Peter Mennin
- "Voices" 15’
- Texts by Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman
- Solo mezzo-soprano, timp., perc., piano
Lawrence Moss
- "Unseen Leaves"
- Text by Walt Whitman
- Solo soprano, Oboe, Two tapes, slide projections, lights
Harold Oliver
- "Another Spring"
- Solo tenor, piano
Russell Peck
- "Automobile"
- Solo soprano, flute, bass, percussion
Artur Schnabel
- "Notturno" 12’
- Solo Contralto (tenor), piano.
Elie Siegmeister
- "City Songs" 13’
- Text by Norman Rosten
- Solo high voice, piano
- "A Cycle of Cities" 5’
- Text by Langston Hughes
- Solo tenor, piano
- "Euclid" 1’
- Text by Vachel Lindsay
- Solo high voice, piano
- "Five Langston Hughes Songs" 8’
- Solo voice flute, clarinet, violin, cello, perc., piano
- "Four Songs" 8’
- Text by Richard Eberhart
- Solo low voice, piano
- "Robert Frost Songs"
- Solo high voice, piano
- "Sing Out Sweet Land. As I Was Going along" 3’
- Text by Edward Eager
- Medium voice, piano
- "Songs of Experience" 15’
- Text by William Blake
- Solo low voice, piano
- "Songs of Innocence" 12’
- Text by William Blake
- Solo high voice, piano
Leo Smit
- "Cock Robin" 14’
- Solo soprano, piccolo (or flute),perc.
- "Magic Water. Girl-Widow’s songs"
- Solo soprano, piano
Joel Spiegelman
- "Daddy" 13’
- Text by Sylvia Plath
- Solo soprano, speaking voice, flute, oboe, conga drum, synth.
Louise Talma
- "Thirteen Ways of Looking At A Blackbird"
- Solo tenor/soprano, flute, piano
- "Seven Songs"
- Voice, piano
- "Infanta Marina"
- Voice, piano
- "Terre De France" Cycle of five songs
- Solo soprano, piano
John Thow
- "Chinese Poems
- Solo soprano, flute
Anton Webern
- "Schmerz immer Blick nach oben"
- Solo mezzo-soprano, string quartet
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