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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by J. Heggie

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Jake Heggie (b. 1961)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

  • A Great Hope Fell: Songs from Civil War
    • no. 1. Prologue: Ships that pass in the night (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
    • no. 2. Africa (Text: Maya Angelou) *
    • no. 3. When Johnny comes marching home (Text: Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore , as Louis Lambert)
    • no. 4. Letter to President Lincoln from Annie Davis (Text: Annie Davis)
    • no. 5. Was my brother in the battle? (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
    • no. 6. A great Hope fell (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
    • no. 7. Glory (Text: Julia Ward Howe)
    • no. 8. America (Text: Maya Angelou) *
  • A Question of Light
    • no. 1. The Light of Coincidences [René Magritte] (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
    • no. 2. Eccentric Flint (Maya c. AD 600-900) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
    • no. 3. Yellow Roses in a Vase [Gustave Caillebotte] (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
    • no. 4. Place de la Concorde [Piet Mondrian] (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
    • no. 5. El Hombre (Tamayo) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
    • no. 6. Watch [Gerald Murphy] (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
  • Before the Storm
    • no. 1. Before the storm (Text: Judyth Walker) [x]*
    • no. 2. It sounded as if the Streets were running (Text: Emily Dickinson)
    • no. 3. What lips my lips have kissed (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) FRI GER
    • no. 4. The thin edge (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
  • Encountertenor
    • no. 1. Countertenor's conundrum (Text: John Hall) [x]*
    • no. 2. The trouble with trebles in trousers ... (Pitch can be a bitch!) (Text: John Hall) [x]*
    • no. 3. A gift to share (Text: John Hall) [x]*
  • Eve-Song
    • no. 1. My name (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
    • no. 2. Even (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
    • no. 3. Good (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
    • no. 4. Listen (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
    • no. 5. Snake (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
    • no. 6. Woe to man (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
    • no. 7. The wound (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
    • no. 8. The farm (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
  • Facing forward/Looking back
    • no. 1. Motherwit (Text: Charlene Baldridge) [x]*
    • no. 2. Grounded (Text: Eugenia Zukerman) [x]*
    • no. 3. Hummingbird (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) [x]*
    • no. 4. Mother in the Mirror (Text: Armistead Jones Maupin, jr.) [x]*
    • no. 5. Facing forward (Text: Jake Heggie) [x]*
  • Faith Disquiet
    • no. 1. "Why do I love" You, Sir? (Text: Emily Dickinson)
    • no. 2. What if I say I shall not wait! (Text: Emily Dickinson)
    • no. 3. If you were coming in the fall (Text: Emily Dickinson)
  • Friendly Persuasions: Songs in Homage to Poulenc
    • no. 1. Wanda Landowska (Text: Gene Scheer) *
    • no. 2. Pierre Bernac (Text: Gene Scheer) *
    • no. 3. Raymonde Linossier (Text: Gene Scheer) *
    • no. 4. Paul Éluard (Text: Gene Scheer) *
  • From Emily's Garden ( Aus Emilys Garten. Liederzyklus von Jake Heggie, translated by Bertram Kottmann) GER
    • no. 1. Here, where the Daisies fit my Head (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
    • no. 2. In lands I never saw (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
    • no. 3. To make a prairie (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
    • no. 4. It makes no difference abroad (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
  • Here and Gone
    • no. 1. The farms of home (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
    • no. 2. In praise of songs that die (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
    • no. 3. Stars (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
    • no. 4. The factory window song (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
    • no. 5. In the morning (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
    • no. 6. Because I liked you better (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
    • no. 7. The half-moon westers low (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • How Well I Knew the Light
    • no. 1. Ample make this bed (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
    • no. 2. The sun kept setting (Text: Emily Dickinson)
  • Natural Selection
    • no. 1. Creation (Text: Gini Savage) *
    • no. 2. Animal passion (Text: Gini Savage) *
    • no. 3. Alas! Alack! (Text: Gini Savage) *
    • no. 4. Indian Summer - Blue (Text: Gini Savage) *
    • no. 5. Joy Alone (Connection) (Text: Gini Savage) *
  • Newer Every Day: Songs for Kiri (Täglich neuer: Lieder für Kiri, translated by Bertram Kottmann) GER
    • no. 1. Silence (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
    • no. 2. I’m Nobody! Who are You? (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER GER ITA
    • no. 3. Fame (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
    • no. 4. That I did always love (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
    • no. 5. Goodnight (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
  • Of Gods and Cats
    • no. 1. In the beginning (Text: Gavin Geoffrey Dillard) [x]*
    • no. 2. Once upon a universe (Text: Gavin Geoffrey Dillard) [x]*
  • On the Road to Christmas
    • no. 1. The night is freezing fast (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
    • no. 2. The car ride to Christmas (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]*
    • no. 3. Good King Merrily on high (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
    • no. 4. I wonder as I wander (Text: John Jacob Niles) FRE FRE
    • no. 5. The Road to Bethlehem (Text: Emily Dickinson)
    • no. 6. And then the setting sun (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]*
    • no. 7. Christmas time of year (Text: Jake Heggie) [x]*
  • Paper Wings
    • no. 1. Bedtime story (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]*
    • no. 2. Paper wings (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]*
    • no. 3. Mitten smitten (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]*
    • no. 4. A route to the sky (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]*
  • Rise and Fall
    • no. 1. Water Stone (Noguchi) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
    • no. 2. Incantation Bowl (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
    • no. 3. Angels Wings (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
    • no. 4. The Shaman (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
  • Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia
    • no. 1. The Spring is Arisen; Ophelia's Song (Text: Jake Heggie) [x]*
    • no. 2. Women have loved before as I love now (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
    • no. 3. Not in a silver casket cool with pearls (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
    • no. 4. Spring (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
  • Songs for Murdered Sisters
    • no. 1. Empty Chair (Text: Margaret Atwood) *
    • no. 2. Enchantment (Text: Margaret Atwood) *
    • no. 3. Anger (Text: Margaret Atwood) *
    • no. 4. Dream (Text: Margaret Atwood) *
    • no. 5. Bird Soul (Text: Margaret Atwood) *
    • no. 6. Lost (Text: Margaret Atwood) *
    • no. 7. Rage (Text: Margaret Atwood) *
    • no. 8. Coda: Song (Text: Margaret Atwood) *
  • Songs to the Moon, Part 1: "Fairy-Tales for the Children"
    • no. 1. Prologue: Once More - To Gloriana (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
    • no. 2. Euclid (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
    • no. 3. The Haughty Snail-king (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
    • no. 4. What the Rattlesnake Said (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
    • no. 5. The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky (What the little girl said) (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
    • no. 6. What the Scarecrow Said (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
    • no. 7. What the Gray-winged Fairy Said (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
    • no. 8. Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be (What Grandpa told the children) (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
  • Statuesque
    • no. 1. Henry Moore: Reclining Figure of Elmwood (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
    • no. 2. Pablo Picasso: Head of a Woman, 1932 (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
    • no. 3. Hapshetsut: The Divine Potter (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
    • no. 4. Alberto Giacommetti: Standing Woman #2 (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
    • no. 5. Winged Victory: We're through (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
  • The Deepest Desire: Four Meditations on Love
    • no. 1. Prelude: The Call - More is required (Text: Helen Prejean, Sister) *
    • no. 2. I catch on fire (Text: Helen Prejean, Sister) *
    • no. 3. The deepest desire (Text: Helen Prejean, Sister) *
    • no. 4. Primary colors (Text: Helen Prejean, Sister) *
  • The Moon is a Mirror
    • no. 1. The Strength of the Lonely (What the Mendicant Said) (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
    • no. 2. What the Miner in the Desert Said (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
    • no. 3. The Old Horse in the City (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
    • no. 4. What the Forester said (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
    • no. 5. What the Snowman said (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
  • These Strangers (Ces étrangers) FRE
    • no. 1. These Strangers, in a foreign World (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
    • no. 2. In the midst of thousands (Text: Frederick Douglass) FRE
    • no. 3. I did not speak out (Text: Martin Niemöller) * FRE
    • no. 4. To a Stranger (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE
  • The Starry Night
    • no. 1. The starry night (Text: Anne Sexton) *
    • no. 2. Celestial locomotion (Text: Anonymous after Vincent Willem van Gogh) [x] ⊗
    • no. 3. Go thy great way! (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
    • no. 4. Reflection (Text: Anonymous after Vincent Willem van Gogh) [x] ⊗*
    • no. 5. The sun kept setting (Text: Emily Dickinson)
    • no. 6. Touch (Text: Anonymous after Vincent Willem van Gogh) [x] ⊗*
    • no. 7. I would not paint a picture (Text: Emily Dickinson)
  • Thoughts Unspoken
    • no. 1. A learning experience over coffee... (Text: John Hall) [x]*
    • no. 2. You enter my thoughts (Text: John Hall) [x]*
    • no. 3. To speak of love (Text: John Hall) [x]*
    • no. 4. Unspoken thoughts at bedtime (Text: John Hall) [x]*
  • Three Folk Songs
    • no. 1. Barb'ry Allen (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
    • no. 2. He's gone away (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
    • no. 3. The leather-winged bat (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
  • Times of Day
    • no. 1. The minuet (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) [x]*
    • no. 2. Simple (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) [x]*
    • no. 3. The best time of the day (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) [x]*
  • Trois poèmes intérieurs de Rainer Maria Rilke (Three Interior Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Grant Hicks) ENG
    • no. 1. Portrait intérieure (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG
    • no. 2. La Porteuse de fleurs (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG
    • no. 3. Epilogue: C'est pour t'avoir vue (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG
  • Winter Roses
    • no. 1. Prologue: Winter Roses (Text: Charlene Baldridge) *
    • no. 2. The wren (Text: Charlene Baldridge) [x]*
    • no. 3. The robin (Text: Emily Dickinson) [x]
    • no. 4. A hero (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]
    • no. 5. Sleeping (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) *
    • no. 6. To my Dad (Text: Frederica von Stade) *
    • no. 7. Sweet Light (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) *
    • no. 8. Epilogue: Late Fragment (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) [x]*

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • Africa (in A Great Hope Fell: Songs from Civil War) (Text: Maya Angelou) *
  • A gift to share (in Encountertenor) (Text: John Hall) [x]*
  • A great Hope fell (in A Great Hope Fell: Songs from Civil War) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
  • A hero (in Winter Roses) (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]
  • Alas! Alack! (in Natural Selection) (Text: Gini Savage) *
  • Alberto Giacommetti: Standing Woman #2 (in Statuesque) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
  • A learning experience over coffee... (in Thoughts Unspoken) (Text: John Hall) [x]*
  • All that I do (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
  • America (in A Great Hope Fell: Songs from Civil War) (Text: Maya Angelou) *
  • Ample make this bed (in How Well I Knew the Light) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
  • And then the setting sun (in On the Road to Christmas) (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]*
  • Angels Wings (in Rise and Fall) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
  • Anger (in Songs for Murdered Sisters) (Text: Margaret Atwood) *
  • Animal passion (in Natural Selection) (Text: Gini Savage) *
  • Anna Madrigal Remembers (Text: Armistead Jones Maupin, jr.) [x]*
  • A route to the sky (in Paper Wings) (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]*
  • As well as Jesus? (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
  • At last, to be identified! (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
  • Away in a manger (Text: Volkslieder )
  • Barb'ry Allen (in Three Folk Songs) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
  • Because I liked you better (in Here and Gone) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Bedtime story (in Paper Wings) (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]*
  • Before the storm (in Before the Storm) (Text: Judyth Walker) [x]*
  • Bird Soul (in Songs for Murdered Sisters) (Text: Margaret Atwood) *
  • Celestial locomotion (in The Starry Night) (Text: Anonymous after Vincent Willem van Gogh) [x] ⊗
  • Christmas time of year (in On the Road to Christmas) (Text: Jake Heggie) [x]*
  • Coda: Song (in Songs for Murdered Sisters) (Text: Margaret Atwood) *
  • Countertenor's conundrum (in Encountertenor) (Text: John Hall) [x]*
  • Creation (in Natural Selection) (Text: Gini Savage) *
  • Dream (in Songs for Murdered Sisters) (Text: Margaret Atwood) *
  • Eccentric Flint (Maya c. AD 600-900) (in A Question of Light) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
  • El Hombre (Tamayo) (in A Question of Light) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
  • Empty Chair (in Songs for Murdered Sisters) (Text: Margaret Atwood) *
  • Enchantment (in Songs for Murdered Sisters) (Text: Margaret Atwood) *
  • Epilogue: C'est pour t'avoir vue (in Trois poèmes intérieurs de Rainer Maria Rilke) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG
  • Epilogue: Late Fragment (in Winter Roses) (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) [x]*
  • Euclid (in Songs to the Moon, Part 1: "Fairy-Tales for the Children") (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
  • Even (in Eve-Song) (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
  • Everyone sang (Text: Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon)
  • Facing forward (in Facing forward/Looking back) (Text: Jake Heggie) [x]*
  • Fame (in Newer Every Day: Songs for Kiri) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
  • Glory (in A Great Hope Fell: Songs from Civil War) (Text: Julia Ward Howe)
  • Good King Merrily on high (in On the Road to Christmas) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
  • Goodnight (in Newer Every Day: Songs for Kiri) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
  • Good (in Eve-Song) (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
  • Go thy great way! (in The Starry Night) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
  • Grounded (in Facing forward/Looking back) (Text: Eugenia Zukerman) [x]*
  • Grow old along with me! (Text: Robert Browning)
  • Hapshetsut: The Divine Potter (in Statuesque) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
  • Henry Moore: Reclining Figure of Elmwood (in Statuesque) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
  • Here, where the Daisies fit my Head (in From Emily's Garden) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
  • He's gone away (in Three Folk Songs) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
  • Hummingbird (in Facing forward/Looking back) (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) [x]*
  • I catch on fire (in The Deepest Desire: Four Meditations on Love) (Text: Helen Prejean, Sister) *
  • I did not speak out (in These Strangers) (Text: Martin Niemöller) * FRE
  • If you were coming in the fall (in Faith Disquiet) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
  • I’m Nobody! Who are You? (in Newer Every Day: Songs for Kiri) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER GER ITA
  • Incantation Bowl (in Rise and Fall) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
  • Indian Summer - Blue (in Natural Selection) (Text: Gini Savage) *
  • In lands I never saw (in From Emily's Garden) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
  • In praise of songs that die (in Here and Gone) (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
  • In the beginning (in Of Gods and Cats) (Text: Gavin Geoffrey Dillard) [x]*
  • In the midst of thousands (in These Strangers) (Text: Frederick Douglass) FRE
  • In the morning (in Here and Gone) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • I shall not live in vain (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
  • It makes no difference abroad (in From Emily's Garden) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
  • It sounded as if the Streets were running (in Before the Storm) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
  • I wonder as I wander (in On the Road to Christmas) (Text: John Jacob Niles) FRE FRE
  • I would not paint a picture (in The Starry Night) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
  • Joy Alone (Connection) (in Natural Selection) (Text: Gini Savage) *
  • La Porteuse de fleurs (in Trois poèmes intérieurs de Rainer Maria Rilke) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG
  • Letter to President Lincoln from Annie Davis (in A Great Hope Fell: Songs from Civil War) (Text: Annie Davis)
  • Listen (in Eve-Song) (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
  • Lost (in Songs for Murdered Sisters) (Text: Margaret Atwood) *
  • Mitten smitten (in Paper Wings) (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]*
  • Mother in the Mirror (in Facing forward/Looking back) (Text: Armistead Jones Maupin, jr.) [x]*
  • Motherwit (in Facing forward/Looking back) (Text: Charlene Baldridge) [x]*
  • My Grandmother's love letters (Text: Hart Crane) [x]
  • My name (in Eve-Song) (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
  • My true love hath my heart (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir) FRE GER
  • Not in a silver casket cool with pearls (in Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
  • Once upon a universe (in Of Gods and Cats) (Text: Gavin Geoffrey Dillard) [x]*
  • Pablo Picasso: Head of a Woman, 1932 (in Statuesque) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
  • Paper wings (in Paper Wings) (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]*
  • Patterns (Text: Amy Lowell)
  • Paul Éluard (in Friendly Persuasions: Songs in Homage to Poulenc) (Text: Gene Scheer) *
  • Pierre Bernac (in Friendly Persuasions: Songs in Homage to Poulenc) (Text: Gene Scheer) *
  • Place de la Concorde [Piet Mondrian] (in A Question of Light) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
  • Portrait intérieure (in Trois poèmes intérieurs de Rainer Maria Rilke) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG
  • Prelude: The Call - More is required (in The Deepest Desire: Four Meditations on Love) (Text: Helen Prejean, Sister) *
  • Primary colors (in The Deepest Desire: Four Meditations on Love) (Text: Helen Prejean, Sister) *
  • Prologue: Once More - To Gloriana (in Songs to the Moon, Part 1: "Fairy-Tales for the Children") (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
  • Prologue: Ships that pass in the night (in A Great Hope Fell: Songs from Civil War) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
  • Prologue: Winter Roses (in Winter Roses) (Text: Charlene Baldridge) *
  • Rage (in Songs for Murdered Sisters) (Text: Margaret Atwood) *
  • Raymonde Linossier (in Friendly Persuasions: Songs in Homage to Poulenc) (Text: Gene Scheer) *
  • Reflection (in The Starry Night) (Text: Anonymous after Vincent Willem van Gogh) [x] ⊗*
  • She sweeps with many-colored Brooms (Text: Emily Dickinson)
  • Silence (in Newer Every Day: Songs for Kiri) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
  • Simple (in Times of Day) (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) [x]*
  • Sleeping (in Winter Roses) (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) *
  • Snake (in Eve-Song) (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
  • Sophie's Song (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]*
  • Spring (in Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
  • Stars (in Here and Gone) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Sweet Light (in Winter Roses) (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) *
  • That I did always love (in Newer Every Day: Songs for Kiri) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
  • The best time of the day (in Times of Day) (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) [x]*
  • The car ride to Christmas (in On the Road to Christmas) (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]*
  • The deepest desire (in The Deepest Desire: Four Meditations on Love) (Text: Helen Prejean, Sister) *
  • The factory window song (in Here and Gone) (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
  • The farms of home (in Here and Gone) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The farm (in Eve-Song) (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
  • The half-moon westers low (in Here and Gone) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The Haughty Snail-king (in Songs to the Moon, Part 1: "Fairy-Tales for the Children") (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
  • The leather-winged bat (in Three Folk Songs) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
  • The Light of Coincidences [René Magritte] (in A Question of Light) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
  • The minuet (in Times of Day) (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) [x]*
  • The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky (What the little girl said) (in Songs to the Moon, Part 1: "Fairy-Tales for the Children") (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
  • The night is freezing fast (in On the Road to Christmas) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The Old Horse in the City (in The Moon is a Mirror) (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
  • The Road to Bethlehem (in On the Road to Christmas) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
  • The robin (in Winter Roses) (Text: Emily Dickinson) [x]
  • These Strangers, in a foreign World (in These Strangers) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
  • The Shaman (in Rise and Fall) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
  • The Spring is Arisen; Ophelia's Song (in Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia) (Text: Jake Heggie) [x]*
  • The starry night (in The Starry Night) (Text: Anne Sexton) *
  • The Strength of the Lonely (What the Mendicant Said) (in The Moon is a Mirror) (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
  • The sun kept setting (in The Starry Night) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
  • The sun kept setting (in How Well I Knew the Light) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
  • The thin edge (in Before the Storm) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
  • The trouble with trebles in trousers ... (Pitch can be a bitch!) (in Encountertenor) (Text: John Hall) [x]*
  • The wound (in Eve-Song) (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
  • The wren (in Winter Roses) (Text: Charlene Baldridge) [x]*
  • To a Stranger (in These Strangers) (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE
  • To make a prairie (in From Emily's Garden) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
  • To my Dad (in Winter Roses) (Text: Frederica von Stade) *
  • To say before going to sleep (Text: Albert Ernest Flemming after Rainer Maria Rilke) * FRE RUS RUS
  • To speak of love (in Thoughts Unspoken) (Text: John Hall) [x]*
  • Touch (in The Starry Night) (Text: Anonymous after Vincent Willem van Gogh) [x] ⊗*
  • Unspoken thoughts at bedtime (in Thoughts Unspoken) (Text: John Hall) [x]*
  • Vanity (Blah Blah Me) (Text: Jake Heggie) [x]*
  • Wanda Landowska (in Friendly Persuasions: Songs in Homage to Poulenc) (Text: Gene Scheer) *
  • Was my brother in the battle? (in A Great Hope Fell: Songs from Civil War) (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Watch [Gerald Murphy] (in A Question of Light) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
  • Water Stone (Noguchi) (in Rise and Fall) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
  • What if I say I shall not wait! (in Faith Disquiet) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
  • What lips my lips have kissed (in Before the Storm) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) FRI GER
  • What the Forester said (in The Moon is a Mirror) (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
  • What the Gray-winged Fairy Said (in Songs to the Moon, Part 1: "Fairy-Tales for the Children") (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
  • What the Miner in the Desert Said (in The Moon is a Mirror) (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
  • What the Rattlesnake Said (in Songs to the Moon, Part 1: "Fairy-Tales for the Children") (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
  • What the Scarecrow Said (in Songs to the Moon, Part 1: "Fairy-Tales for the Children") (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
  • What the Snowman said (in The Moon is a Mirror) (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
  • When Johnny comes marching home (in A Great Hope Fell: Songs from Civil War) (Text: Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore , as Louis Lambert)
  • White in the moon (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • "Why do I love" You, Sir? (in Faith Disquiet) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
  • Winged Victory: We're through (in Statuesque) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
  • Woe to man (in Eve-Song) (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
  • Women have loved before as I love now (in Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
  • Yellow Roses in a Vase [Gustave Caillebotte] (in A Question of Light) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
  • Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be (What Grandpa told the children) (in Songs to the Moon, Part 1: "Fairy-Tales for the Children") (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
  • You enter my thoughts (in Thoughts Unspoken) (Text: John Hall) [x]*

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