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Catalog: Song Information: Page 46 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. "Nightfall"Song 1 (extractable) from set Mystery
This entry contributed by Lori Laitman around 9/28/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: quarter=76. Begins with murmuring piano part and vocal part centering around A4 (A3 men). Spring memories quicken the tempo, but the music eventually subsides. Ends with wistful vocalese. Text Comments: We will never walk again As we used to walk at night, watching our shadows lengthen under the gold street light When the snow was new and white We will never walk again Slowly, we two, In spring when the park is sweet with midnight and with dew, And the passerby are few. I sit and think of it all, And the blue June twilight dies, Down in the clanging square A street piano cries And stars come out in the skies This entry contributed by G&K around 9/28/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Nocturne"Song 4 (extractable) from set On This Island, Op.11
This entry contributed by G&K around 4/10/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: moderately slow. must have ability to sing piano at highest part of song's range. Sustained chords in piano. Text Comments: Now through night's caressing grip.... This entry contributed by G&K around 4/10/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Non so (1923)"Song 2 (extractable) from set Cinque sonetti di Michelangiolo Buonarroti
This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/20/99
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8 pages.
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. "Nothing Gold Can Stay"Song 1 (extractable) from set Two by Frost
This entry contributed by G&K around 5/16/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: A short song requiring excellent control of soft dynamics in the top range of the song. Marked "Moderately". A short, spare setting. Text Comments: Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. This entry contributed by G&K around 5/16/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast"Song 2 (extractable) from set On This Island, Op.11
This entry contributed by 16 around 3/27/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: The song itself ends up sounding fast due to the number of words but you and your pianist need to come to some agreement about a fairly steady tempo or you'll never get the words out. It can be quite tricky as one minute your building up nicely to a FF and the next you must produce a perfectly floated piano G5. Depending on the speed you find you can cope with, it should last approx. 2.5mins. Text Comments: The mood is fairly bleak, the basic topic seems to be about the war, but in a fairly abstract fashion. This has implications about the level of accessibility to an unsophisticated audience, its not exactly a frothy, fun filled piece although at times the tune almost could be. See Collected Poems [of W. H. Auden] (Poetry) This entry contributed by 16 around 3/27/99. The contributor(s) performed the song. "o by the by"Song 1 (extractable) from set From Marion's Book
This entry contributed by 31 around 5/7/00 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Not difficult vocally; no key signatures; generally polytonal; spare in texture; linear; more erudite than most of Blitzstein's vocal music, but, at the same time, lyrical, colorful and warm. Text Comments: Blitzstein is light with Cummings' verbal magic and, with a deft, sensitive touch, imaginatively conveys the modern poet's many romantic moods; rarely heard Recordings: Recorded by Sharp on Koch CD (3-7050-2). See Singer's Guide to Auditioning in Unified Germany (Auditioning and Audition Preparation) This entry contributed by 31 around 5/7/00. The contributor(s) rehearsed the song. "O Florida, Venereal Soil"Song 5 (extractable) from set O Florida
This entry contributed by G&K around 11/10/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Moderato, dotted half = 44. Piano part looks almost orchestral (of course, this set is also written for string quartet). A fairly long song. Hoiby's style is singable, audience-pleasing, and musically satisfying. Text Comments: A longish poem. This is the beginning: A few things for themselves, Convulvulous and coral, Buzzards and live-moss, Tiestas from the Keys, A few things for themselves, Florida, venereal soil, Disclose to the lover. The dreadful sundry of this world, The Cuban, Polodowsky, The Mexican women, The Negro undertaker Killing time between corpses, Fishing for crayfish. . ." Wonderful sounding words continue. I love the word music of Stevens' poetry, but often he leaves me confused. 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. "O Friend!"Song not from a cycle or set
This entry contributed by G&K around 11/10/98
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Sustained and with fervour." Half note = 44-50. Music swells in volume to support upper tessitura. Flowing, late Romantic sound. Long lines. Text Comments: Full text: "Alter? When the hills do. Falter? When the sun Question if his glory Be the perfect one. Surfeit? When the daffodil Doth of the dew: Even as herself, O friend! I will of you! This entry contributed by G&K around 11/10/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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