Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by L. Lehrman

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• An Australian Odyssey
• no. 1. Love sonnet #9 (Text: Edith Speers) [x]*
• no. 2. I remember (Text: Jacob Rosenberg) [x]*
• no. 3. No more boomerang (Text: Oodgeroo Noonuccal, née Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska) [x]*
• no. 4. The golem (Text: Alex Skovron) [x]*
• no. 5. Fugue (Text: Alison Croggon) [x]*
• no. 6. Credo (Text: Alex Skovron) [x]*
• no. 7. Missing him (Text: Jordie Albiston) [x]*
• no. 8. After Babel (Text: Peter Goldsworthy, AM) [x]*
• no. 9. Our love is so natural (Text: Judith Arundell Wright) [x]*
• no. 10. A strange bird (Text: Michael Dransfield) [x]*
• no. 11. Antipodean heads (Text: John Forbes) [x]*
• no. 12. Europe, endless (Text: John Forbes) [x]*
• no. 13. Crosstalk (Text: John Ernest Tranter) [x]*
• no. 14. Erstwhile (Text: Chris Wallace-Crabbe, AO) [x]*
• no. 15. Fairytale (Text: Ania Walwicz) [x]*
• no. 16. Portrait (Text: Judith Arundell Wright) [x]*
• no. 17. Woman's song (Text: Judith Arundell Wright) *
• no. 18. Equatorial (Text: Ian McBryde) [x]*
• An Edith Segal Love Song Cycle, op. 107
• no. 1. Remembrance (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*
• no. 2. Severance (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*
• no. 3. The two (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*
• no. 4. Loneliness (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*
• no. 5. Scars (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*
• no. 6. Your hand (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*
• no. 7. Waiting (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*
• Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen), op. 72
• no. 1. At the border [multi-text setting] (Text: Lehrman) ENG
• no. 1. An der Grenze [multi-text setting] (Text: Heine) ENG
• no. 2. Cologne [multi-text setting] (Text: Lehrman) ENG
• no. 2. Köln [multi-text setting] (Text: Heine) ENG
• no. 3. Eastward [multi-text setting] (Text: Lehrman) ENG
• no. 3. Ostwärts [multi-text setting] (Text: Heine) ENG
• no. 4. The wolves (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine) [x]
• no. 4. Mit den Wölfen (Text: Heinrich Heine)
• no. 5. The sun (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine) [x]
• no. 5. Die Sonne (Text: Heinrich Heine)
• no. 6. Die feste Burg (Text: Heinrich Heine)
• no. 6. The mighty fort (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine) [x]
• no. 7. At the inn (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine) [x]
• no. 7. Im Wirtshaus (Text: Heinrich Heine)
• no. 8. At mother's (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine)
• no. 8. Bei der Mutter (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
• no. 9. We Jews (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine)
• no. 9. Wir Juden (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
• no. 10. The goddess [multi-text setting] (Text: Lehrman) ENG
• no. 10. Die Göttin [multi-text setting] (Text: Heine) ENG
• no. 11. Das Versprechen (Text: Heinrich Heine) [x]
• no. 11. The promise (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine) [x] ⊗
• no. 12. What she revealed [multi-text setting] (Text: Lehrman) ENG
• no. 12. Was ich gesehn [multi-text setting] (Text: Heine) ENG
• Growing up woman, op. 54 [musical]
• no. 2. So low (Text: Barbara Tumarkin Dunham) [x]*
• I Love New York, op. 59
• no. 1. Dawn in New York (Text: Anonymous after Federico García Lorca) [x]
• no. 2. The subway beggar (Text: Eve Merriam) [x]
• Licht im Dunkel (A Light in the Darkness)
• Schifflein (Text: Harry Oschitzki , as Andy Orieli) * ENG
• Long Island Songs of Seasoned Women, op. 186
• no. 6. My song (Text: Lorraine Mund) *
• Simple songs, op. 35
• no. 1. Simple song (Text: John Suckling, Sir) GER
• no. 2. Advice to Virgins (Text: Robert Herrick) SPA
• Song Cyclette of Three Girls' Love Songs, op. 6
• no. 1. Love's secret (Text: William Blake)
• no. 2. When I am dead, my dearest (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER GER GER GER ITA
• no. 3. Sweet and low (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER GER GER
• The bourgeois poet , op. 28
• no. 1. Introductory (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
• no. 2. The bourgeois poet (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
• no. 3. Deep-thinking machine (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
• no. 4. When suffering is everywhere (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
• no. 5. How do I love you? (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) *
• no. 6. The first time (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
• no. 7. The world is my dream (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
• no. 8. A'men (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
• Three School Songs, op. 109
• no. 1. Cultural elite round (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• no. 2. Presidents' song (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• no. 3. Music - the beginning (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• Two Abel Meeropol Rounds, op. 155
• no. 1. The purple couch (Text: Abel Meeropol) [x]
• no. 2. If all of the papers (Text: Abel Meeropol) [x]
• Two Leigh Hunt Songs, op. 49
• no. 1. Jenny kissed me (Text: Leigh Hunt) DUT
• no. 2. Abou Ben Adhem (Text: Leigh Hunt)
• Two Shelley songs, op. 32
• no. 1. Sonnetina #4 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE
• no. 2. Love's philosophy (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE FRE GER POL RUS
• Two songs of a madman, op. 36
• no. 1. My soul is dark (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) DAN DUT FRE GER GER GER GER RUS
• no. 2. They say that Hope is happiness (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) FRE

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• Abou Ben Adhem, op. 49 no. 2 (in Two Leigh Hunt Songs) (Text: Leigh Hunt)
• A cereal Christmas carol, op. 151 (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• Advice to Virgins, op. 35 no. 2 (in Simple songs) (Text: Robert Herrick) SPA
• After Babel, op. 149 no. 8 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Peter Goldsworthy, AM) [x]*
• A'men, op. 28 no. 8 (in The bourgeois poet ) (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
• An der Grenze, op. 72 no. 1 [multi-text setting] (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Heine) ENG
• Answer to a child's question, op. 48 (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
• Antipodean heads, op. 149 no. 11 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: John Forbes) [x]*
• A red, red rose, op. 47 (Text: Robert Burns) CZE DAN FRE GER GER GER GER GRE HUN IRI RUS SWG
• A songlet on an English love note, op. 41 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE GER HUN
• A strange bird, op. 149 no. 10 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Michael Dransfield) [x]*
• At mother's, op. 72 no. 8 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine)
• At the border, op. 72 no. 1 [multi-text setting] (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Lehrman) ENG
• At the inn, op. 72 no. 7 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine) [x]
• Battle Cry of the Administration of the Music Library Association, op. 119 (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman) [x]
• Be gentle, op. 110 (Text: Richard S. Gilbert, Reverend) [x]
• Bei der Mutter, op. 72 no. 8 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
• Cologne, op. 72 no. 2 [multi-text setting] (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Lehrman) ENG
• Conscience, op. 93a (Text: Abel Meeropol , as Lewis Allan) [x]*
• Credo, op. 149 no. 6 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Alex Skovron) [x]*
• Crosstalk, op. 149 no. 13 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: John Ernest Tranter) [x]*
• Cultural elite round, op. 109 no. 1 (in Three School Songs) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• Das Versprechen, op. 72 no. 11 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Heinrich Heine) [x]
• Dawn in New York, op. 59 no. 1 (in I Love New York) (Text: Anonymous after Federico García Lorca) [x]
• Deep-thinking machine, op. 28 no. 3 (in The bourgeois poet ) (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
• Deutschland, op. 57 (Text: Bertolt Brecht) [x]
• Die feste Burg, op. 72 no. 6 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Heinrich Heine)
• Die Göttin , op. 72 no. 10 [multi-text setting] (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Heine) ENG
• Die Sonne, op. 72 no. 5 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Heinrich Heine)
• Eastward, op. 72 no. 3 [multi-text setting] (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Lehrman) ENG
• Equatorial, op. 149 no. 18 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Ian McBryde) [x]*
• Erstwhile, op. 149 no. 14 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Chris Wallace-Crabbe, AO) [x]*
• Europe, endless, op. 149 no. 12 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: John Forbes) [x]*
• Fairytale, op. 149 no. 15 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Ania Walwicz) [x]*
• Faith, op. 138 (Text: James Arthur Baldwin) [x]*
• Fugue, op. 149 no. 5 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Alison Croggon) [x]*
• Gesanglos war ich, op. 60 (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
• Herz, mein Herz, op. 86 no. 1 (Text: Heinrich Heine) CAT ENG ENG ENG FRE ITA POL RUS
• Hillel Tripartite Mantra, op. 179 (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• Hold fast to dreams, op. 170 (Text: Langston Hughes)
• How do I love you? (Sonnetina #3), op. 28a (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) *
• How do I love you?, op. 28 no. 5 (in The bourgeois poet ) (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) *
• I'd like to go alone, op. 105 (Text: Jeanne Němcová after Alena Munkova-Synková) ⊗
• If all of the papers, op. 155 no. 2 (in Two Abel Meeropol Rounds) (Text: Abel Meeropol) [x]
• If I could, op. 83 (Text: Marilyn Siegel ) [x]
• Im Wirtshaus, op. 72 no. 7 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Heinrich Heine)
• Introductory, op. 28 no. 1 (in The bourgeois poet ) (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
• I remember, op. 149 no. 2 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Jacob Rosenberg) [x]*
• Jenny kissed me, op. 49 no. 1 (in Two Leigh Hunt Songs) (Text: Leigh Hunt) DUT
• Köln, op. 72 no. 2 [multi-text setting] (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Heine) ENG
• Liebeslied, op. 77 (Text: Mascha Kaléko, née Golda Malka Aufen) * ENG
• Life is a gift, op. 150 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x]
• Little Alice from Amherst, Ohio, op. 44 (Text: Polly Joan) [x]
• Loneliness, op. 107 no. 4 (in An Edith Segal Love Song Cycle) (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*
• Love Song , op. 77 (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Mascha Kaléko, née Golda Malka Aufen) *
• Love sonnet #9, op. 149 no. 1 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Edith Speers) [x]*
• Love's philosophy, op. 32 no. 2 (in Two Shelley songs) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE FRE GER POL RUS
• Love's secret, op. 6 no. 1 (in Song Cyclette of Three Girls' Love Songs) (Text: William Blake)
• Man who man would be, op. 84 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE
• Missing him, op. 149 no. 7 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Jordie Albiston) [x]*
• Mit den Wölfen, op. 72 no. 4 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Heinrich Heine)
• Moj universitet = Мой университет, op. 25 (Text: Vladimir Mayakovsky) ENG
• Monsieur Croche à la Boulangerie, op. 22 (Text: Claude Achille Debussy) ENG
• Music - the beginning, op. 109 no. 3 (in Three School Songs) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• My song, op. 186 no. 6 (in Long Island Songs of Seasoned Women) (Text: Lorraine Mund) *
• My soul is dark, op. 36 no. 1 (in Two songs of a madman) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) DAN DUT FRE GER GER GER GER RUS
• My university, op. 25 (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Vladimir Mayakovsky)
• No more boomerang, op. 149 no. 3 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Oodgeroo Noonuccal, née Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska) [x]*
• Not in a silver casket, op. 166 (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Ode to the City of Cologne, op. 67 (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
• Ostwärts , op. 72 no. 3 [multi-text setting] (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Heine) ENG
• Our love is so natural, op. 149 no. 9 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Judith Arundell Wright) [x]*
• Portrait, op. 149 no. 16 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Judith Arundell Wright) [x]*
• Presidents' song, op. 109 no. 2 (in Three School Songs) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• Remember me when I am gone away, op. 66 (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER GER ITA
• Remembrance, op. 107 no. 1 (in An Edith Segal Love Song Cycle) (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*
• Scars, op. 107 no. 5 (in An Edith Segal Love Song Cycle) (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*
• Schattenküsse, Schattenliebe, op. 185 (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ENG NOR
• Schifflein (in Licht im Dunkel (A Light in the Darkness) ) (Text: Harry Oschitzki , as Andy Orieli) * ENG
• Second Inaugural, op. 169 (Text: Abraham Lincoln) [x]
• Severance, op. 107 no. 2 (in An Edith Segal Love Song Cycle) (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*
• Shadow love, op. 185 (Text: Emma Lazarus after Heinrich Heine) NOR
• Shalom rav, op. 130 (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• Simple song, op. 35 no. 1 (in Simple songs) (Text: John Suckling, Sir) GER
• So low, op. 54 no. 2 (in Growing up woman) (Text: Barbara Tumarkin Dunham) [x]*
• Song, op. 11 (Text: Khalil Gibran) [x]
• Sonnetina #1, op. 12 (Text: Marilyn Siegel ) [x]
• Sonnetina #2, op. 14 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
• Sonnetina #4, op. 32 no. 1 (in Two Shelley songs) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE
• Sonnetina #5, op. 45 (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE FRE GER ITA RUS RUS
• Sonnetina #7, op. 66 (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER GER ITA
• Spiele, op. 56 (Text: Peter Maiwald) [x]*
• Sweet and low, op. 6 no. 3 (in Song Cyclette of Three Girls' Love Songs) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER GER GER
• The bourgeois poet, op. 28 no. 2 (in The bourgeois poet ) (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
• The cautious struggle, op. 55 (Text: Anonymous)
• The circus sideshow, op. 29 (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman) [x]*
• The first time, op. 28 no. 6 (in The bourgeois poet ) (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
• The goddess, op. 72 no. 10 [multi-text setting] (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Lehrman) ENG
• The golem, op. 149 no. 4, op. 142 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Alex Skovron) [x]*
• The mighty fort, op. 72 no. 6 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine) [x]
• The night is darkening round me, op. 70 (Text: Emily Brontë)
• The piper, op. 177 (Text: Karen Euler) [x]*
• The Prayer of St. Francis, op. 193 (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) GER
• The promise, op. 72 no. 11 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine) [x] ⊗
• The purple couch, op. 155 no. 1 (in Two Abel Meeropol Rounds) (Text: Abel Meeropol) [x]
• There is a lady sweet and kind, op. 50a (Text: Anonymous) GER GER
• The stairway, op. 135 (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• The subway beggar, op. 59 no. 2 (in I Love New York) (Text: Eve Merriam) [x]
• The sun, op. 72 no. 5 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine) [x]
• The two, op. 107 no. 3 (in An Edith Segal Love Song Cycle) (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*
• The wolves, op. 72 no. 4 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine) [x]
• The world is my dream, op. 28 no. 7 (in The bourgeois poet ) (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
• They say that Hope is happiness , op. 36 no. 2 (in Two songs of a madman) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) FRE
• Waiting, op. 107 no. 7 (in An Edith Segal Love Song Cycle) (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*
• Was ich gesehn, op. 72 no. 12 [multi-text setting] (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Heine) ENG
• We Jews, op. 72 no. 9 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine)
• What can I give?, op. 145 (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) DUT FRI GER
• What she revealed , op. 72 no. 12 [multi-text setting] (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Lehrman) ENG
• When I am dead, my dearest, op. 6 no. 2 (in Song Cyclette of Three Girls' Love Songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER GER GER GER ITA
• When smoke stood up from Ludlow, op. 8 (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• When suffering is everywhere, op. 28 no. 4 (in The bourgeois poet ) (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
• Where is the song of the artist on Long Island? , op. 165 (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman; George Wallace) [x]
• Winter morning (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman; Emily Lehrman after Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin) CHI FRE
• Wir Juden, op. 72 no. 9 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
• Woman's song, op. 149 no. 17 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Judith Arundell Wright) *
• Your hand, op. 107 no. 6 (in An Edith Segal Love Song Cycle) (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*

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