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Catalog: Song Information: Page 4 of 83Please keep this site alive by contributing song listings and other information to the catalog. See the bottom of every catalog page for how. "A Summer Twilight"
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/22/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 2:50 Needs good soft high F#s from the start -- balmy, a dreamy summer night. This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/22/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "a thousand captains"Song 23 (extractable) from set haiku
This entry contributed by G&K around 10/15/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Visually striking in the cycle because it is the only one more than a page long (this is two pages). A grand 12/8 militaristic beginning (marked "With fury" and dotted quarter = 126-138) calls for a sustained high G5. On the revelation that tall grass is the only monument for the grand military aspirations of the thousand captains, vocalist must have a mp F#5. One of the more technically challenging songs. Text Comments: tall grass is the only monument for the grand military aspirations of a thousand captains. This entry contributed by G&K around 10/15/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island"Song 12 (not extractable) from set Songs on Poems of Frank O'Hara
This entry contributed by G&K around 11/30/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: to be annotated by composer Text Comments: Beginning of text: "The Sun woke me this morning loud and clear, saying "Hey! I've been trying to wake you up for fifteen minutes. Don't be so rude, you are only the second poet I've chosen to speak to personally so why aren't you more attentive? If I could burn you through the window I would to wake you up. I can't hang around here all day." "Sorry, Sun, I stayed up late last night talking to Hal." [more--the sun likes the poet's poetry and is generally affirming of life and of the poet. Funny and touching. This entry contributed by G&K around 11/30/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "A Warm Day for December"Song 4 (not extractable) from set Songs on Poems of Frank O'Hara
This entry contributed by G&K around 11/28/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: to be annotated by composer in '99 Text Comments: Beginning of text: "Fifty-seventh Street--street of joy--I am a microcosm in your macrocosm--and then a macrocosm in your microcosm a hydrogen bomb too tiny to make an eye water and yet I toddle along past the reverential windows of Tiffany with its diamond clips on paper bags--street of dreams" [more] This entry contributed by G&K around 11/28/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "A Winter Night"Song 2 (extractable) from set The Metropolitan Tower and Other Songs
This entry contributed by Lori Laitman around 9/28/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Lyrical, quarter = 69. Begins with slow block chords in the left hand and quiet dissonance; builds to more warmth and passion as narrator pleads to God for the poor; and freezes again when the narrator reflects on her own comfort and her heart's pain. Closing piano passage marked "dirge-like." Not too high for voice, but requires free high G. Text Comments: My window pane is starred with frost, The world is bitter cold tonight, The moon is cruel, and the wind Is like a two-edged sword to smite. God pity all the homeless ones, The beggars pacing to and fro, God pity all the poor tonight Who walk the lamp-lit streets of snow. My room is like a bit of June, Warm and close-curtained fold on fold, But somewhere, like a homeless child, My heart is crying in the cold. This entry contributed by G&K around 9/28/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "A.J. Dayton"Song 6 (not extractable) from set Songs of Madness and Sorrow
This entry contributed by G&K around 2/21/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Voice travels almost entirely along the same wave of G4, Ab4, C#5, D5, C#5, Ab4, G4, repeat, for the entire song (a perpetual motion). Very fast vibraphone line throughout the song with occasional additions from most of the rest of the ensemble. Text Comments: Constant worrying over the thought that he wouldn't solve the mysteries of perpetual motion has driven A.J. Dayton of Janesville insane.... For the past fourteen years he has studied at night until way into morning. It is said he spent considerable money in efforts to solve the mystery of perpetual motion. This entry contributed by G&K around 2/21/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Ad Luciam Beatricem"Song not from a cycle or set
This entry contributed by John Eaton around 3/20/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: 6'. Premiered at the American Academy in Rome by Nelda Nelson and David Keberle, Aug.6, 1995. Text Comments:
Ad Luciam Beatricem (Lullaby) This entry contributed by John Eaton around 3/20/99. The contributor(s) composed the song. "Adieu de la Mariée"Song 2 (extractable) from set Three Métis Folk Songs from Saskatchewan
This entry contributed by CounterPoint Musical Services around 10/31/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments:
Slow and sad, then Lightly and quicker, then Flowing, with childlike simplicity, then Slow and sad again. 4'05". Text Comments:
(The Farewell of a Bride) This entry contributed by G&K around 10/31/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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