Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by L. Liebermann

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Lowell Liebermann (b. 1961)

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A Poet to His Beloved, op. 40

no. 1. A poet to his beloved (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE
no. 2. He Remembers Forgotten Beauty (Text: William Butler Yeats)
no. 3. He Hears The Cry Of The Sedge (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE
no. 4. He Thinks Of His Past Greatness When A Part Of The Constellations Of Heaven (Text: William Butler Yeats)
no. 5. He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead (Text: William Butler Yeats)
no. 6. He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE GER HUN

Final Songs, op. 21

no. 1. When death comes and whispers to me (Text: Rabindranath Tagore)
no. 2. Many red devils ran from my heart (Text: Stephen Crane)
no. 3. Death by Drums (Text: Robert Graves) *
no. 4. Listening to Comrade Shostakovich on the Day of His Death (Text: Rod Jellema) [x]*
no. 5. Farewell Symphony (Text: Randall Jarrell) [x]*
no. 6. There was a man with tongue of wood (Text: Stephen Crane)

Five Songs on Poems of Jean Starr Untermeyer, op. 135

no. 1. Lake-Song (Text: Jean Starr Untermeyer) *
no. 2. Berkshire Twilight (Text: Jean Starr Untermeyer) *
no. 3. New Tributes (Text: Jean Starr Untermeyer) *
no. 4. Mist (Text: Jean Starr Untermeyer) *
no. 5. Forget-Me-Nots (Text: Jean Starr Untermeyer) *

Four Seasons, op. 123

no. 1. Spring (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
no. 2. Summer (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) [x]
no. 3. The Death of Autumn I (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
no. 4. The Death of Autumn II (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
no. 5. Winter (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) [x]
no. 6. Mindful of You (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)

Night Songs, op. 22

no. 1. Good Night (Text: Mark van Doren) [x]*
no. 2. She tells her love while half asleep (Text: Robert Graves) *
no. 3. A Variation on 'To Say To Go To Sleep' (Text: Randall Jarrell after Rainer Maria Rilke) ⊗

Six Songs on Poems by Henry W. Longfellow, op. 57

no. 1. Hymn to the Night (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
no. 2. Mezzo Cammin (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
no. 3. Snow-Flakes (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) CHI
no. 4. The Haunted Chamber (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
no. 5. Delia (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) ITA
no. 6. The Arrow And The Song (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) GER

Six Songs on Poems of Raymond Carver, op. 80

no. 1. Your Dog Dies (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) *
no. 2. Music (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) [x]*
no. 3. Venice (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) [x]*
no. 4. Afghanistan (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) *
no. 5. My Wife (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) [x]*
no. 6. Two Worlds (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) *

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening, op. 104

no. 1. Into My Own (Text: Robert Frost)
no. 2. Blue-Butterfly Day (Text: Robert Frost)
no. 3. Now Close The Windows (Text: Robert Frost)
no. 4. Dust Of Snow (Text: Robert Frost)
no. 5. Stars (Text: Robert Frost)
no. 6. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Text: Robert Frost) GER

Three Dream Songs, op. 53

no. 1. Ardella (Text: Langston Hughes)
no. 2. Dreams (Text: Langston Hughes)
no. 3. I dream a world (Text: Langston Hughes)

Three Poems of Stephen Crane, op. 11

no. 1. Places Among the Stars (Text: Stephen Crane)
no. 2. Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground (Text: Stephen Crane)
no. 3. A row of thick pillars (Text: Stephen Crane)

Two Songs on Poems of Anthony Hecht, op. 86

no. 1. The Darkness and the Light Are Both Alike to Thee (Text: Anthony Evan Hecht) *
no. 2. Tarantula, or The Dance of Death (Text: Anthony Evan Hecht) *

War Songs, op. 7

no. 1. The Portent (Text: Herman Melville)
no. 2. Misgivings (Text: Herman Melville)
no. 3. Ball's Bluff (Text: Herman Melville)
no. 4. Shiloh (Text: Herman Melville)

All titles of vocal settings in Opus order

op. 7. War Songs
op. 11. Three Poems of Stephen Crane
op. 21. Final Songs
op. 22. Night Songs
op. 40. A Poet to His Beloved
op. 53. Three Dream Songs
op. 57. Six Songs on Poems by Henry W. Longfellow
op. 73. The Next Time (Text: Mark Strand) *
op. 78. On the Beach at Night (Text: Walt Whitman)
op. 80. Six Songs on Poems of Raymond Carver
op. 86. Two Songs on Poems of Anthony Hecht
op. 104. Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
op. 120. An Opera House (Text: Amy Lowell)
op. 123. Four Seasons
op. 135. Five Songs on Poems of Jean Starr Untermeyer

Last update: 2025-04-20 04:42:20