Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by B. Lees

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Benjamin Lees, né Benjamin George Lisniansky (1924 - 2010)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

Cyprian Songs

no. 1. From what green Island (Text: Richard Nickson) [x]*
no. 2. Wake! for the night of shadows (Text: Richard Nickson) [x]*
no. 3. Still is it as it was (Text: Richard Nickson) [x]*
no. 4. Over me like soft clouds (Text: Richard Nickson) [x]*

Songs of the Night

no. 1. O shade of evening (Text: Richard Nickson) [x]*
no. 2. A star fell in flames (Text: Richard Nickson) [x]*
no. 3. The enemies (Text: Richard Nickson) [x]*
no. 4. A whisper of rain (Text: Richard Nickson) [x]*
no. 5. Fall to the night wind (Text: Richard Nickson) [x]*
no. 6. On eastern hills (Text: Richard Nickson) [x]*

Three Songs

no. 1. The moonlit tree (Text: Richard Nickson) [x]*
no. 2. Close all the doors (Text: Richard Nickson) [x]*
no. 3. The angel (Text: William Blake)

Visions of Poets

no. 5. I am the poet of the Body (Text: Walt Whitman) ITA
no. 9. You sea! (Text: Walt Whitman)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

A star fell in flames (in Songs of the Night) (Text: Richard Nickson) [x]*
A whisper of rain (in Songs of the Night) (Text: Richard Nickson) [x]*
Close all the doors (in Three Songs) (Text: Richard Nickson) [x]*
Echoes of Normandy [song cycle] [x]
Fall to the night wind (in Songs of the Night) (Text: Richard Nickson) [x]*
From what green Island (in Cyprian Songs) (Text: Richard Nickson) [x]*
I am the poet of the Body (in Visions of Poets) (Text: Walt Whitman) ITA
On eastern hills (in Songs of the Night) (Text: Richard Nickson) [x]*
O shade of evening (in Songs of the Night) (Text: Richard Nickson) [x]*
Over me like soft clouds (in Cyprian Songs) (Text: Richard Nickson) [x]*
Paumanok (Text: Walt Whitman)
Staves (Text: Richard Nickson) [x]*
Still is it as it was (in Cyprian Songs) (Text: Richard Nickson) [x]*
The angel (in Three Songs) (Text: William Blake)
The enemies (in Songs of the Night) (Text: Richard Nickson) [x]*
The golden net (Text: William Blake)
The moonlit tree (in Three Songs) (Text: Richard Nickson) [x]*
Wake! for the night of shadows (in Cyprian Songs) (Text: Richard Nickson) [x]*
You sea! (in Visions of Poets) (Text: Walt Whitman)

Last update: 2023-05-10 19:28:52