Texts by J. Agee set in Art Songs and Choral Works
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Texts set in art song or choral works (not necessarily comprehensive):
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- A Chorale () (from Permit Me Voyage) [x] *
- All over Alabama () - W. Rogers [x] *
- A lullabye (Sleep, child, lie quiet, let be) - D. Welcher *
- A Lullaby (Sleep, child, lie quiet, let be) - M. Horvit, P. Klein, P. Nelson *
- Cabaret song () - S. Sargon [x] *
- Chorale () (from Permit Me Voyage) - D. Diamond [x] *
- Description of Elysium (Sure on this shining night) (from Permit Me Voyage) SPA *
- For love departed, lover, cease to mourn (from Permit Me Voyage) [x] *
- How many little children sleep (How many little children sleep) - J. Musto, T. Pasatieri *
- How many little children sleep * - J. Musto, T. Pasatieri
- I have been fashioned on a chain of flesh (from Permit Me Voyage) [x] * - T. Pasatieri
- In memory of my father () - D. Welcher [x] *
- Is love then royal on some holy height? (from Permit Me Voyage) [x] *
- It has become that time of evening when people sit on their porches * - S. Barber
- Just this: from now on, to go on foot (from The Collected Poems of James Agee) [x] * - T. Pasatieri
- Knoxville, Summer of 1915 (It has become that time of evening when people sit on their porches) - S. Barber *
- Lullaby (Sleep, child, lie quiet, let be) - P. Moravec, T. Pasatieri, R. Sowash *
- Morning Fair (Now stands our love on that still verge of day) (from Permit Me Voyage) - J. Carpenter [x] *
- Now stands our love on that still verge of day (from Permit Me Voyage) [x] * - J. Carpenter
- Open All Night (Wake up Threeish) - R. Gordon *
- Our doom is in our being. We began (from Permit Me Voyage) [x] *
- Permit me voyage () (from Permit Me Voyage) - T. Pasatieri [x] *
- Sleep, child, lie quiet, let be * - S. Cumberworth, M. Horvit, P. Klein, P. Moravec, P. Nelson, T. Pasatieri, R. Sowash, D. Welcher (A lullaby)
- Sleep, child (Sleep, child, lie quiet, let be) - S. Cumberworth *
- So it begins. Adam is in his earth (from Permit Me Voyage) [x] *
- Sonnet (Just this: from now on, to go on foot) (from The Collected Poems of James Agee) - T. Pasatieri [x] *
- Sure on this shining night (from Permit Me Voyage) SPA * - S. Barber, M. Lauridsen (Description of Elysium)
- Sure on this shining night (Sure on this shining night) (from Permit Me Voyage) - S. Barber, M. Lauridsen SPA *
- The storm () - D. Welcher [x] *
- The wide earth's orchard of your time of knowing (from Permit Me Voyage) [x] *
- The years have passed, and made a perfect wheel (from The Collected Poems of James Agee) [x] * - D. Diamond
- Wake up Threeish * - R. Gordon
- Warning (The years have passed, and made a perfect wheel) (from The Collected Poems of James Agee) - D. Diamond [x] *
- We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville Tennessee *
- What dynasties of destinies undreamed (from Permit Me Voyage) [x] *
- Why am I here? Why do you look at me (from Permit Me Voyage) [x] *
Last update: 2023-05-10 20:40:13