Die Räume wurden mir zu eng [ ... ]
Cantata da Requiem - WW II Poems for Peace (originally titled Voices of Women in Wartime)
Song Cycle by Gloria Coates (b. 1938)
Word count: 325
1. Aria: Junge Witwe [sung text checked 1 time]
Authorship
- by Charlotte Hagedorn , written 1941, copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
2. Recitative: BBC Weather Report [sung text checked 1 time]
Temperatures have soared to Almost summer levels Making conditions ideal for Bombing offensives.
Authorship
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, a BBC weather report [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
3. Aria: The Flying Bombers; ideas and thoughts of Phyllis McGinley in 1942 [sung text checked 1 time]
Through the air, beyond the breeze [ ... ]
Authorship
- by Gloria Coates (b. 1938), a paraphrase, copyright © [an adaptation] [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
- a text in English by Phyllis McGinley (1905 - 1978) [text unavailable]
4. Rezitativ: Brief der Lehrerin Elfriede Birndorfer [sung text checked 1 time]
Ein paar Zeilen, die ich gelesen habe [ ... ]
Authorship
This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.5. Aria: Rinne, Regen, Rinne; aus einer bayerischen Zeitung von 1943 [sung text checked 1 time]
Rinne, Regen, rinne Auf den Sand und Auf die Steine Rinne allerwegen Und weine.
Authorship
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, from a 1943 Bavarian newspaper [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
6. Aria: All These Dyings; thoughts of Marianne Moore from In Distrust of Merits, 1942 [sung text checked 1 time]
All the world is an orphans home [ ... ]
Authorship
- by Gloria Coates (b. 1938), copyright © [an adaptation] [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
- a text in English by Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852), "In Distrust of Merits", first published 1944, copyright ©