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Catalog: Song Information: Page 16 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. "Cloud River"
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/22/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 2:20 Languid piano introduction and coda frames vaguely rocking vocal line in 6/8. Text Comments: The unborn children are rowing out to the far edge of the sky, Looking for warm beds to appear in. How lucky they are, dressed In their lake-colored gowns, the oars in their oily locks Taking them stroke by stroke to circumference and artery... I'd like to be with them still, pulling my weight, Blisters like small white hearts in the waxed palms of my hands. I'd like to remember my old name, and keep the watch, Waiting for something immense and unspeakable to uncover its face. This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/22/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "Continual Conversation with a Silent Man"Song 3 (extractable) from set O Florida
This entry contributed by G&K around 11/10/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Con moto espressivo" quarter = 96. Octave jump F4 to piano F5. Hoiby's style is singable, audience-pleasing, and musically satisfying. Text Comments: The text begins thusly: "The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die--The broken cartwheel on the hill. As if, in the presence of the sea, We dried our nets and mended sail and talked of never-ending things, of the never-ending storm of will, One will and many wills, and the wind, Of many meanings in the leaves . . ." and the poem ends saying that the other voice in the conversation is not a real voice but "the sound of things and their motion . . . ." Recordings: Recorded by Peter Stewart and Lee Hoiby on a CD, Continual Conversation with a Silent Man (CRI CD 685). Link below is to this recording. See Continual Conversation with a Silent Man (Stewart, Hoiby) (Recordings) This entry contributed by G&K around 11/10/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Correspondances (1918)"Song 1 (extractable) from set Trois poèmes pour chant et piano
This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/20/99
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Initial marking: Lent. 3 pages, approximately 3 min.
Recordings: Not recorded. See Sorabji: A Critical Celebration (Biographies) This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/20/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Could Be"Song 4 (extractable) from set Shadow of the Blues
This entry contributed by G&K around 5/15/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Marked "Smoothly, moderately". Has a swing to it. Hangs the highest of any of the songs in the cycle, but optional notes bring the highest note in the piece to F4 in the original key. Text Comments: Could be Hastings Street, Or Lenox Avenue, Could be Eighteenth and Vine, and still be true. Could be Fifth and Mound, Could be Rampart: When you pawned my watch You pawned my heart. Could be you love me, Could be you don't. Might be that you'll come back, Like as not you won't. Hastings Street is weary, Also Lenox Avenue. Any place is dreary Without my watch and you. This entry contributed by G&K around 5/15/99. The contributor(s) heard the song. "Count my Bones"Song 7 (extractable) from set First there was light
This entry contributed by anonymous around 10/17/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments:
Timing ca. 3'30".
Very spare piano accompaniment with use of piano harmonics.
Text Comments: The poem deals with shamanism, with some Native American imagery. Four songs in the cycle use Native imagery and may be extracted as a separate cycle. [1, 3, 7, 9] This entry contributed by anonymous around 10/17/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Crépuscule du soir mystique (1918)"Song 2 (extractable) from set Trois poèmes pour chant et piano
This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/20/99
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Initial marking: Lent avec nostalgie et langueur. 3 pages, approximately 3 min.
Recordings: Not recorded. See Sorabji: A Critical Celebration (Biographies) This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/20/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Croquet By Moonlight"Song 2 (not extractable) from set Three Sentimental Songs
This entry contributed by Robert Jordahl around 10/5/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Carol Lines has a remarkable coloratura voice. It was shown to full advantage in a recital of Brahms, Poulenc, Mozart, Blitstein, and a humorous cycle " Three Sentimental Songs" for high voice, Violin, and Piano by Robert Jordahl( may be purchased ) from CPCC or Daring Diva. Text Comments:
The poetry of Julia Moore, the "Sweet Singer of Michigan" may be viewed online on a site celebrating bad poetry.
This entry contributed by anonymous around 5/7/00. The contributor(s) looked over the song. Music Comments:
The violin part contributes just the right amount of hokiness to this and the other songs in the set.
Text Comments: Ever play a game of croquet? It used to be the "cat's pajamas". This entry contributed by Robert Jordahl around 10/5/99. The contributor(s) composed the song. "Dans la grotte (c. 1919)"Song 3 (extractable) from set Trois fêtes galantes de Verlaine
This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/19/99
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Initial marking: Modéré avec une afféterie ironique. 3 pages, approximately 3 min.
Recordings: Not performed See Sorabji: A Critical Celebration (Biographies) This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/20/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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