Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by L. Lehrman

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Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman (b. 1949)

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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 Opus order

Schifflein (Text: Harry Oschitzki , as Andy Orieli) * ENG
Winter morning (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman; Emily Lehrman after Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin) CHI FRE

op. 6. Song Cyclette of Three Girls' Love Songs
op. 8. When smoke stood up from Ludlow (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
op. 11. Song (Text: Khalil Gibran) [x]
op. 12. Sonnetina #1 (Text: Marilyn Siegel ) [x]
op. 14. Sonnetina #2 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
op. 22. Monsieur Croche à la Boulangerie (Text: Claude Achille Debussy) ENG
op. 25. Moj universitet = Мой университет (Text: Vladimir Mayakovsky) ENG
op. 25. My university (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Vladimir Mayakovsky)
op. 28. The bourgeois poet
op. 28a. How do I love you? (Sonnetina #3) (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) *
op. 29. The circus sideshow (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman) [x]*
op. 32. Two Shelley songs
op. 35. Simple songs
op. 36. Two songs of a madman
op. 41. A songlet on an English love note (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE GER HUN
op. 44. Little Alice from Amherst, Ohio (Text: Polly Joan) [x]
op. 45. Sonnetina #5 (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE FRE GER ITA RUS RUS
op. 47. A red, red rose (Text: Robert Burns) CZE DAN FRE GER GER GER GER GRE HUN IRI RUS SWG
op. 48. Answer to a child's question (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
op. 49. Two Leigh Hunt Songs
op. 50a. There is a lady sweet and kind (Text: Anonymous) GER GER
op. 54. Growing up woman
op. 55. The cautious struggle (Text: Anonymous)
op. 56. Spiele (Text: Peter Maiwald) [x]*
op. 57. Deutschland (Text: Bertolt Brecht) [x]
op. 59. I Love New York
op. 60. Gesanglos war ich (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
op. 66. Remember me when I am gone away (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER GER ITA
op. 67. Ode to the City of Cologne (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
op. 70. The night is darkening round me (Text: Emily Brontë)
op. 72. Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)
op. 77. Liebeslied (Text: Mascha Kaléko, née Golda Malka Aufen) * ENG
op. 77. Love Song (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Mascha Kaléko, née Golda Malka Aufen) *
op. 83. If I could (Text: Marilyn Siegel ) [x]
op. 84. Man who man would be (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE
op. 86.
op. 93a. Conscience (Text: Abel Meeropol , as Lewis Allan) [x]*
op. 105. I'd like to go alone (Text: Jeanne Němcová after Alena Munkova-Synková) ⊗
op. 107. An Edith Segal Love Song Cycle
op. 109. Three School Songs
op. 110. Be gentle (Text: Richard S. Gilbert, Reverend) [x]
op. 119. Battle Cry of the Administration of the Music Library Association (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman) [x]
op. 130. Shalom rav (Text: Anonymous) [x]
op. 135. The stairway (Text: Anonymous) [x]
op. 138. Faith (Text: James Arthur Baldwin) [x]*
op. 142. The golem (Text: Alex Skovron) [x]*
op. 145. What can I give? (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) DUT FRI GER
op. 149. An Australian Odyssey
op. 150. Life is a gift (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x]
op. 151. A cereal Christmas carol (Text: Anonymous) [x]
op. 155. Two Abel Meeropol Rounds
op. 165. Where is the song of the artist on Long Island? (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman; George Wallace) [x]
op. 166. Not in a silver casket (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
op. 169. Second Inaugural (Text: Abraham Lincoln) [x]
op. 170. Hold fast to dreams (Text: Langston Hughes)
op. 177. The piper (Text: Karen Euler) [x]*
op. 179. Hillel Tripartite Mantra (Text: Anonymous) [x]
op. 185. Shadow love (Text: Emma Lazarus after Heinrich Heine) NOR
op. 185. Schattenküsse, Schattenliebe (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ENG NOR
op. 186. Long Island Songs of Seasoned Women
op. 193. The Prayer of St. Francis (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) GER

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