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Catalog: Song Information: Page 49 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. "On His Queerness"Song 2 (extractable) from set Boy Mad
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 2:30 Uses 'the Roman Camp' and 'the Aquarium' as metaphors for homosexual and heterosexual love. Langorous. Text Comments: When I was young and wanted to see the sights, They told me: 'Cast an eye over the Roman Camp If you care to, But plan to spend most of your day at the Aquarium - Because, after all, the Aquarium - Well, I mean to say, the Aquarium - Till you've seen the Aquarium you ain't seen nothing.' So I cast an eye over The Roman Camp - And that old Roman Camp, That old, old Roman Camp Got me Interested. So that now, near closing-time, I find that I still know nothing - And am not even sorry that I know nothing - About fish. This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "On the Block: Lamp, Terracotta Base, US, ca. 1925"
This entry contributed by ECS Publishing around 12/29/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Allegro" dotted quarter = 138. Continues attacca from previous song. Raging piano part with many tritones. Voice part really hangs quite low for a high voice. Text Comments: If when you're old and musing Upon my whats and whys Another one should flicker Its last before your eyes Don't worry, they give out, too, Those burning filaments, imagination's debris Englobed still in a sense Briefly too hot to handle, Too dim a souvenir, Then, for the deft unscrewing Unless you first, my dear, Feel for what it shone from, Ribbed clay each night anew Hardened to its mission: Light for the likes of you. See Songs by Daron Hagen (Recordings) This entry contributed by G&K around 12/29/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "On the Block: Mantel Clock, Imitation Sèvres"
This entry contributed by ECS Publishing around 12/29/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Allegretto" quarter = 108. Quotes an aria ("There Is No Balm In Gilead") from Hagen's opera, Shining Bow, and Ned Rorem's "Go Lovely Rose." Text Comments: Time, passing, glances at the clock Perhaps with pity--who's to say? Still rose and ormolu, its hands..."Stay then, thou art so fair," he smiles, To put the pretty thing at ease. "I will, I have," the latter sighs. "Now what, please? Teach me to tick without the touch I took my life from--ah, those years!" It's dusk; the dial brims with faint firefly tears. The arbeiter reviews a face Flawless in all its partial knowing: "Child, think well of me, or try. I must be going." See Songs by Daron Hagen (Recordings) This entry contributed by G&K around 12/29/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "on the temple's great bronze bell"Song 9 (extractable) from set haiku
This entry contributed by G&K around 10/14/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Slowly and freely." "nobly." 0:40. The first half of the haiku is sung "nobly" over a held chord that reaches down to the lowest A on the keyboard and up to a D#6. The butterfly is portrayed by a fluttering motive done twice in the piano and once in the voice. Text Comments:
I will succumb to quoting an entire haiku once--if somebody tells me to take it off for copyright reasons I will. So here it is: This entry contributed by G&K around 10/14/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "On the Terrace"Song 4 (not extractable) from set Four Quotations
This entry contributed by G&K around 3/27/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: 1:15. based on a Sonny Stitt solo on "All the Things You Are". fast. Frequent meter changes. challenging. Text Comments: We were on the terrace drinking gin and tonics When the squall hit See Selected Poems [by John Ashbery] (Poetry) This entry contributed by G&K around 3/27/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "One Thought Ever at the Fore"Song not from a cycle or set
This entry contributed by G&K around 9/25/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Andante sostenuto" & "molto espressivo e legato" are the introductory markings. In dm. Although the text is on one level a message of equality of all peoples, the music seems more interested in the idea of the shared experience of death. Not technically challenging for either performer. Text Comments: Full text: One thought ever at the fore: That in the divine ship, the World, breasting Time and Space, All peoples of the globe together sail, Sail the same voyage, are bound to the same destination. Recordings: unknown This entry contributed by G&K around 9/25/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Ophelia"Song 2 (extractable) from set Metamorphosis
This entry contributed by G&K around 4/27/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Marked "Andante mosso". Piano part begins marked "tolling" but moves into more delicate texture as speaker describes more of the dream. Ends Lento, "quasi religioso", and very beautifully! One vocal phrase ends with a G#5 which can be optionally lowered an octave, but another G#5 (mid-phrase) keeps the range the same. Text Comments: Whenever, like Ophelia, I'm in jeopardy, I dream I am she in time's aspic (the eternal river)-- an eternal fish locked beyond words. The moon beams down on me, has the face of Hamlet, his dark body invisible, but is not he, has not even read the play, and lifts me warm and fresh into a second life where I dance with him in a field of flowers whose names I cannot remember. 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. "Out of this World I Shall Discover Horses"Song 1 (extractable) from set Household Tales
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 1:50 Introductory, piano alternates between tinkling and swaying music. This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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