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Catalog: Song Information: Page 80 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. "What if I say I shall not wait!"Song 2 (extractable) from set At Last, To Be Identified!
This entry contributed by G&K around 10/25/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: (3:49) Fast, rhythmic, almost breathless; some tricky passages, both notes and rhythms; piano accompaniment very orchestral and challenging Text Comments: Full text: "What if I say I shall not wait! What if I burst the fleshly Gate And pass escaped to thee! What if I file this Mortal off See where it hurt me that's enough And wade in Liberty! They cannot take me any more! Dungeons can call and Guns implore Unmeaning now to me As laughter was an hour ago or Laces or a Travelling Show Or who died yesterday!" This entry contributed by Richard Pearson Thomas around 10/25/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "What the Hyena Said"Song 2 (extractable) from set The Moon Songs
This entry contributed by Meredith Ryan Taylor around 5/7/00 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments:
A blend of tonality and modality. Soprano Rebekkah Graves said of the cycle, "I REALLY enjoyed it! Cheeky, and accessible without being simplistic, complex enough to be interesting without being absolutely impossible!"
Text Comments: American poet Vachel Lindsay (author of 'The Congo') composed a great number of moon poems, these texts are extracted from those poems. This entry contributed by Meredith Ryan Taylor around 5/7/00. The contributor(s) composed the song. "What the Little Girl Said"Song 3 (extractable) from set The Moon Songs
This entry contributed by Meredith Ryan Taylor around 5/7/00 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments:
A blend of tonality and modality. Soprano Rebekkah Graves said of the cycle, "I REALLY enjoyed it! Cheeky, and accessible without being simplistic, complex enough to be interesting without being absolutely impossible!"
Text Comments: American poet Vachel Lindsay (author of 'The Congo') composed a great number of moon poems, these texts are extracted from those poems. This entry contributed by Meredith Ryan Taylor around 5/7/00. The contributor(s) composed the song. "What the Miner in the Desert Said"Song 4 (extractable) from set The Moon Songs
This entry contributed by Meredith Ryan Taylor around 5/7/00 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments:
A blend of tonality and modality. Soprano Rebekkah Graves said of the cycle, "I REALLY enjoyed it! Cheeky, and accessible without being simplistic, complex enough to be interesting without being absolutely impossible!"
Text Comments: American poet Vachel Lindsay (author of 'The Congo') composed a great number of moon poems, these texts are extracted from those poems. This entry contributed by Meredith Ryan Taylor around 5/7/00. The contributor(s) composed the song. "What the Rattlesnake Said"Song 5 (extractable) from set The Moon Songs
This entry contributed by Meredith Ryan Taylor around 5/7/00 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments:
A blend of tonality and modality. Soprano Rebekkah Graves said of the cycle, "I REALLY enjoyed it! Cheeky, and accessible without being simplistic, complex enough to be interesting without being absolutely impossible!"
Text Comments: American poet Vachel Lindsay (author of 'The Congo') composed a great number of moon poems, these texts are extracted from those poems. This entry contributed by Meredith Ryan Taylor around 5/7/00. The contributor(s) composed the song. "What Will It Be?"Song not from a cycle or set
This entry contributed by G&K around 5/9/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: a very sweet, delicate and touching song. "Grazioso". In the opera, this is sung by the resident soprano ingenue, Regina's daughter; around the same time, the sweetest character in the show, Birdie, is brutally slapped by her husband, adding a special bit of piquancy to the song's text. Text Comments: What will it be for me? Will someone say "I love you?" What will it be, to be the one to say "I love you?" Will it be all real and right? And how will it feel to really love a perfect stranger? Look in his eyes, and look, and kiss that perfect stranger? I cannot imagine it quite. It's like nothing else before, the opening of a door to the light. I stand at the door, and wait, And wonder who'll come knocking. Who'll stand outside, and wait, And wonder--will I open? Open to what dazzling light? My life is waiting for me. I wonder what will it be? See Marc Blitzstein: Songs (Sharp, Holvik, Blier) (Recordings) This entry contributed by G&K around 5/9/99. The contributor(s) heard the song. "When First I Loved You"Song 6 (extractable) from set Six Love Songs
This entry contributed by David Wolfson around 11/14/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: half note=80. Flowing. Highest tessitura of set. Text Comments: When first I loved you It was a narrow love, Bright and pointed. My only cares Were you and me And the thin sweat between us. I loved you longer. It was a broader love, Rolling and rumbling, A living continent Between two oceans. And at the last, When I rejoin The waiting universe, That ever vaster love Will outreach the fleeing galaxies, Including all there is. This entry contributed by G&K around 11/14/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "When I Am Old"Song 6 (extractable) from set Metamorphosis
This entry contributed by G&K around 4/27/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: marked "Quite Slowly" but subdivisions make this song feel faster than that would suggest. Low A3 and G#3 in vocal part marked "very nasty". Bb5 is sustained but song hangs much lower. A particularly beautiful, powerful, bittersweet , angry song. Text Comments: When I am old I will be very nasty. I will lean out my attic window, My hair all cobwebs, And shout, "You're all crazy!" The children I will turn to pebbles in the stream The young women to willow trees Young men to apricots. I will mutter around the house: I am this chair I am this Flower. I will be myself for myself Change the clouds' colours To my anger black To my anger green. I will be a long dream of childhood cry like rain on the sill Shine like a migrant bird And each day at dusk, I will bang a yellow gong. The heavens will open, I will rise and greet them all and they will scorn me or applaud me As they wish. Recordings: in progress; from Albany records eventually, with Carol Webber, soprano and Benton Hess, piano This entry contributed by G&K around 4/27/99. The contributor(s) analyzed the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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