Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by D. White

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Eight Art Songs
• A Lovely Love (Text: Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks) *
• When Sue Wears Red (Text: Langston Hughes) GER
• Velvet Shoes (Text: Elinor Wylie) GER
• To a Dead Friend (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• That Black Reef (Text: James William Kilgore) [x]
• Nails (Text: James William Kilgore) [x]
• Joy (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Dreams (Text: Langston Hughes)
• A Woman Who Loves Impossible Men (Text: Lucille Clifton)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• A Lovely Love (in Eight Art Songs) (Text: Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks) *
• A Woman Who Loves Impossible Men (in Eight Art Songs) (Text: Lucille Clifton)
• Dreams (in Eight Art Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Joy (in Eight Art Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Nails (in Eight Art Songs) (Text: James William Kilgore) [x]
• That Black Reef (in Eight Art Songs) (Text: James William Kilgore) [x]
• To a Dead Friend (in Eight Art Songs) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Velvet Shoes (in Eight Art Songs) (Text: Elinor Wylie) GER
• When Sue Wears Red (in Eight Art Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes) GER

Last update: 2026-01-29 00:48:57