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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by L. Bernstein

 𝄞 Composer 𝄞 

Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)

(Also see this composer's texts set to music.)

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The symbol [x] indicates a placeholder for a text that is not yet in the database.
The symbol ⊗ indicates a translation that is missing an original text.

A * indicates that a text cannot (yet?) be displayed on this site because of its copyright status.
Note: A language code in a blue rectangle like ENG indicates that a translation to that language is available.
A grey rectangle like FRE indicates a particular translation (usually one set to music) exists but isn't yet available.

Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

  • Chichester Psalms
    • no. 1. א   שִׁיר מִזְמוֹר לְדָוִד [multi-text setting] (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE LAT ENG
    • no. 2. א   מִזְמוֹר לְדָוִד [multi-text setting] (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER FRE LAT ENG CAT
    • no. 3. א   שִׁיר הַמַּעֲלוֹת, לְדָוִד [multi-text setting] (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG FRE LAT
  • I Hate Music!: A Cycle of Five Kid Songs (Je déteste la musique, translated by Guy Laffaille) FRE
    • no. 1. My name is Barbara (Text: Leonard Bernstein) * FRE
    • no. 2. Jupiter has seven moons (Text: Leonard Bernstein) * FRE
    • no. 3. I hate music! (Text: Leonard Bernstein) * FRE
    • no. 4. A big Indian and a little Indian (Text: Leonard Bernstein) * FRE
    • no. 5. I'm a person too (Text: Leonard Bernstein) * FRE
  • La Bonne Cuisine (Four recipes) ENG
    • no. 1. Plum Pudding (Text: Émile Dumont) ENG ENG
    • no. 2. Queues de Boeuf (Text: Émile Dumont) ENG
    • no. 3. Tavouk Gueunksis (Text: Émile Dumont) ENG
    • no. 4. Civet à Tout Vitesse (Text: Émile Dumont) ENG
  • Mass [stage composition]
    • Simple song (Text: Stephen Lawrence Schwartz) * SPA
  • Songfest
    • no. 2. The pennycandy store beyond the El (Text: Lawrence Ferlinghetti) *
    • no. 3. A Julia de Burgos (Text: Julia de Burgos) *
    • no. 4. To what you said (Text: Walt Whitman)
    • no. 5. I, too, sing America (Text: Langston Hughes) GER
    • no. 6. To my dear and loving husband (Text: Anne Bradstreet)
    • no. 9. Music I heard with you (Text: Conrad Aiken)
    • no. 10. Zizi's Lament (Text: Gregory Nunzio Corso) *
    • no. 11. What lips my lips have kissed (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) FRI GER
    • no. 12. Israfel (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)
  • Symphony no. 3
    • no. 1. Kaddish (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
  • Two Love Songs
    • no. 1. Extinguish my eyes (Text: Jessie Lemont after Rainer Maria Rilke) FRE GER
    • no. 2. When my soul touches yours (Text: Jessie Lemont after Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT FRE GER ITA ITA

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • A big Indian and a little Indian (in I Hate Music!: A Cycle of Five Kid Songs) (Text: Leonard Bernstein) * FRE
  • Afterthought (Text: Leonard Bernstein) *
  • A Julia de Burgos (in Songfest) (Text: Julia de Burgos) *
  • Civet à Tout Vitesse (in La Bonne Cuisine) (Text: Émile Dumont) ENG
  • Extinguish my eyes (in Two Love Songs) (Text: Jessie Lemont after Rainer Maria Rilke) FRE GER
  • If you can't eat you got to (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
  • I hate music! (in I Hate Music!: A Cycle of Five Kid Songs) (Text: Leonard Bernstein) * FRE
  • I'm a person too (in I Hate Music!: A Cycle of Five Kid Songs) (Text: Leonard Bernstein) * FRE
  • Israfel (in Songfest) (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)
  • It must be me (Text: Richard Wilbur) *
  • I, too, sing America (in Songfest) (Text: Langston Hughes) GER
  • Jupiter has seven moons (in I Hate Music!: A Cycle of Five Kid Songs) (Text: Leonard Bernstein) * FRE
  • Kaddish (in Symphony no. 3) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
  • Music I heard with you (in Songfest) (Text: Conrad Aiken)
  • My name is Barbara (in I Hate Music!: A Cycle of Five Kid Songs) (Text: Leonard Bernstein) * FRE
  • Plum Pudding (in La Bonne Cuisine) (Text: Émile Dumont) ENG ENG
  • Queues de Boeuf (in La Bonne Cuisine) (Text: Émile Dumont) ENG
  • Silhouette (Text: Leonard Bernstein) *
  • Simple song (in Mass) (Text: Stephen Lawrence Schwartz) * SPA
  • Tavouk Gueunksis (in La Bonne Cuisine) (Text: Émile Dumont) ENG
  • The pennycandy store beyond the El (in Songfest) (Text: Lawrence Ferlinghetti) *
  • To my dear and loving husband (in Songfest) (Text: Anne Bradstreet)
  • To what you said (in Songfest) (Text: Walt Whitman)
  • What lips my lips have kissed (in Songfest) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) FRI GER
  • When my soul touches yours (in Two Love Songs) (Text: Jessie Lemont after Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT FRE GER ITA ITA
  • [No title] [multi-text setting] (in Chichester Psalms) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG FRE LAT
  • Zizi's Lament (in Songfest) (Text: Gregory Nunzio Corso) *
  • [No title] [multi-text setting] (in Chichester Psalms) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG CAT GER FRE LAT
  • [No title] [multi-text setting] (in Chichester Psalms) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE LAT ENG

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