20th / 21st Century Song Collections

The vocal and musical abilities of high school and college singers have guided the song choices in this series. These volumes introduce classical voice students to 20th-century American art songs through

All three songs from Prayers and Blessings are interconnected motivically, yet distinct in meter, tonality and message. Peace and reverence flow throughout. The version for bass-baritone was

Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) dedicated his "Cien Sonetos de Amor" to his wife, and it remains among the world's most revered collections of love poems. Among these hundred poems is the gorgeous

This collection of 12 songs continues Cipullo's outstanding art songs for baritone and piano. An Earth to Walk Upon, a set of six songs, reflects on life in this physical world and compares our

Cipullo's vocal works are becoming increasingly popular. The 14 songs in this volume for baritone and piano were composed between 2002 and 2009. A set of six, America 1968, represent poet Robert

Based on the poetry of Langston Hughes, American composer Gwyneth Walker has created a twelve minute set of songs for either tenor or baritone voice based on themes of water and rivers. These titles are

Here is a collection of modern art songs for voice and piano by American composer John Conahan in which he sets poems and texts that have been a source of inspiration for him. Available in four separate

This invaluable collection features editions for the soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, and baritone voice taken from contemporary American opera featuring composers David Conte, Daron Hagen, Libby Larsen,

Previously included in the collection Winter Windows.

Commissioned by Roderick Williams, this characterful trilogy of songs sets poems by John Greening that present a vibrant, modern take on each of Schubert's song cycles. The song cycle includes: A

This extended setting is a sort of meditation on memories of past love, as the speaker remembers traveling old paths of place and memory. It captures the quiet calm of graceful scenes that poet Conrad Aiken

The monodrama Ahab is the third that Hall has created with librettist Caitlin Vincent. This ten-minute work takes an imaginary approach to the final moments in the life of Herman Melville's

Based on texts by Robert Service, this cycle of 5 songs for baritone and piano includes: The Heart of the Sourdough, The Lure of the Little Voices, Premonition,

The text of Juliana Hall's musical setting for baritone and piano is the famous sonnet The New Colossus by American poet Emma Lazarus, written in 1883 and now inscribed on a plaque on the

Song of the Silkie (String Quartet No. 2) is a dramatic work for high baritone (or baritone and soprano, or mezzo-soprano, or countertenor) and string quartet. The work is based on a folk tale

Powerfully poignant and equally tender, My Dearest Ruth is a musical setting of the final love letter from Martin Ginsburg to his wife, the opera-loving Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,

Winter Windows is a cycle of songs that each offer a "window" into a different wintry scene. There is, of course, a snow-man, and there are snowflakes and fields piled high in snow drifts, but the