Texts by A. Smith set in Art Songs and Choral Works

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Alan Louis Smith

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Texts set in art song or choral works (not necessarily comprehensive):

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Baudelaire’s invalid flowers, scented with opium - A. Smith (Baudelaire’s invalid flowers)
Baudelaire’s invalid flowers (Baudelaire’s invalid flowers, scented with opium) - A. Smith
Colored glass * - A. Smith (Kaleidoscope)
Daniel Boone sings to the night sky (Orion! Hunter!) - A. Smith
Did you know that you were dying? * - A. Smith (To My Dying Father, Fifty-six Years Later)
Francis Poulenc’s Thank-you Note to Louise de Vilmorin (To you, seductive woman-child) - A. Smith
Heart windows (Looking out, looking in) - A. Smith *
Hide with me here a little longer in this cradling manger - A. Smith
How did they know * - A. Smith (Lapiz lazuli)
If every ear (Mondnacht) (If every ear were a trumpet) - A. Smith
If every ear were a trumpet - A. Smith (If every ear (Mondnacht))
If only you would smile every now and then… Then… then * - A. Smith (Wenn du nur zuweilen lächelst)
I kiss your hair, dark with olives and pomegranates and the smoke of campfires - A. Smith
I sing you to sleep - Lullaby (I sing you to sleep) - A. Smith *
I sing you to sleep * - A. Smith (I sing you to sleep - Lullaby)
Kaleidoscope (Colored glass) - A. Smith *
Là ci darem la mano - A. Smith (Là ci darem la mano)
Là ci darem la mano (Making out of life what we want it to be) - A. Smith
Lapiz lazuli (How did they know) - A. Smith *
Looking out, looking in * - A. Smith (Heart windows)
Making out of life what we want it to be (Là ci darem la mano) - A. Smith
Oh, to be a constellation together with you! - A. Smith
Orion! Hunter! - A. Smith (Daniel Boone sings to the night sky)
Puppies on the Other Side of the Door (When I write) - A. Smith *
Some enchanted evening broidered with stars - A. Smith (Some enchanted evening)
Some enchanted evening (Some enchanted evening broidered with stars) - A. Smith
The headlong rush of star to star - A. Smith
There are many types of blindness. Some cannot see * - A. Smith (To my Beloved Narcissist)
To my Beloved Narcissist (There are many types of blindness. Some cannot see) - A. Smith *
To My Dying Father, Fifty-six Years Later (Did you know that you were dying?) - A. Smith *
To you, seductive woman-child - A. Smith (Francis Poulenc’s Thank-you Note to Louise de Vilmorin)
Training wheels (When we were boys) - A. Smith *
Wenn du nur zuweilen lächelst (If only you would smile every now and then… Then… then) - A. Smith *
When I write * - A. Smith (Puppies on the Other Side of the Door)
When we were boys * - A. Smith (Training wheels)
When you carry me to the stars (When you carry me to the stars) - A. Smith *
Your sunburned fingers that thrum my enthralled heart - A. Smith

Last update: 2023-05-10 16:27:14