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Songs for Leontyne

Song Cycle by Lee Hoiby (1926 - 2011)

1. The doe  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Through the snow
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Text Authorship:

  • by John Fandel (b. 1925), copyright ©

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2. Evening  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Evening, when the measure skips a beat
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Text Authorship:

  • by Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955), copyright ©

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3. Autumn
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Language: English 
The leaves are falling, falling down
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Text Authorship:

  • by Harry Duncan , "Autumn", copyright ©

Based on:

  • a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Herbst", appears in Das Buch der Bilder, first published 1920
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4. Winter song  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
The browns, the olives, and the yellows died,
And were swept up to heaven; where they glowed
Each dawn and set of sun till Christmastide,
And when the land lay pale for them, pale-snowed,
Fell back, and down the snow-drifts flamed and flowed.

From off your face, into the winds of winter,
The sun-brown and the summer-gold are blowing;
But they shall gleam with spiritual glinter,
When paler beauty on your brows falls snowing,
And through those snows my looks shall be soft-going.

Text Authorship:

  • by Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918), "Winter song"

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Chant d'hiver", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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5. In the wand of the wind  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
This was the day the trees turned silver
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Text Authorship:

  • by John Fandel (b. 1925), copyright ©

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6. The serpent  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
There was a Serpent who had to sing
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Text Authorship:

  • by Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963), "The serpent", appears in Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse of Theodore Roethke, first published 1958, copyright ©

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Total word count: 511
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