20th / 21st Century Song Collections

Lauridsen, Morten. Poem By Rilke Published by Peer Music, New York. Copyright 1995. The work is adapted and arranged from Les Chansons Des Roses, a choral cycle based on poems of Rainer Maria Rilke.

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 opening of Stanley Moss's poem unfurls the spirit captured in Zwilich's musical setting for bass voice, djembe, and piano: "I salute a word, I stand up and give it my chair, because this one Zulu word,

A collection of seven English art songs for vocal study for high, medium, and low voices. Invocation, for high voice, sets a poem by Stephen Vincent Benet from "John Brown's Body." In the Pale

These four songs, composed in 1928, are settings of poems by Sara Teasdale published in 1924 in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, founded and edited by Harriet Monroe, was perhaps the most

A song cycle for mezzo-soprano comprised of five songs based on texts from Marie Howe's book, What the Living Do. The texts are plain spoken, and the music sets the lyrics intimately and expressively. Songs

Perhaps best known to the music world as a guitar recitalist, David Leisner turned to composing his own guitar repertoire and soon expanded his work to create a rich catalog in the grand tradition of art

Richard Nickson wrote the texts for these three songs by Larry Allan Smith for tenor or soprano soloist and piano. These modern pieces resemble the songs of Benjamin Britten in their use of the voice,

While the title is French for "Eight Flower Songs," the texts are all in English. The poems' flowers metaphorically evoke fragrance, love and loss, life and death, rebirth and regrowth. This 20-minute song

Perhaps best known to the music world as a guitar recitalist, David Leisner turned to composing his own guitar repertoire and soon expanded his work to create a rich catalog in the grand tradition of art

A 30-minute dramatic song cycle for soprano, baritone, and piano with brilliant and witty texts by Mark Twain, this four-movement work is both whimsical and deeply moving. The narrative expresses the

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,