Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by J. Wallach

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• A Revisitation of Myth
• no. 1. Icarus Swims (Text: LuAnn Keener) *
• no. 2. Ms Lot (Text: Muriel Rukeyser) *
• no. 3. Hymn to Eros (Text: Denise Levertov) *
• no. 4. Abraham and Orpheus (Text: Delmore Schwartz) *
• La musica, los muertos y las estrellas
• no. 1. Por doquiera que mi alma (Text: Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón) ENG
• no. 2. ¡Esta desilusión penetrante y amarga (Text: Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón) ENG
• no. 3. ¿Esta música que tocan (Text: Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón) ENG
• Love in the Early Morning
• no. 1. Eggs Please (Text: Madeline Tiger) *
• no. 2. Making Love to the Milkman (Text: Susan Donnelly) *
• Mourning Madrigals
• no. 1. The voice (Text: Thomas Hardy) FRI
• no. 2. Something Tapped (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 3. At the Piano (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 4. In paradisum deducant te angeli (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) CAT DUT
• The Door Standing Open
• no. 1. On the Equator (Text: Robert Mezey) *
• no. 2. Like a Girl (Text: Robert Mezey) *
• no. 3. Vetus Flamma (Text: Robert Mezey) *
• no. 4. With My God the Smith (Text: Robert Mezey) *
• The Dream of Now
• no. 1. Let evening come (Text: Jane Kenyon) *
• no. 2. The dream of now (Text: William Edgar Stafford) [x]*
• no. 3. Reflections on water dreams (Text: Delmore Schwartz) [x]*
• no. 4. The layers (Text: Stanley Jasspon Kunitz) [x]*
• no. 5. When lost in the forest (Text: David Wagoner) *
• no. 6. From the almanac of last things (Text: Linda Pastan) [x]*
• Three Short Sacred Anthems
• no. 1. O magnum mysterium (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT DUT ENG ENG FIN FRE GER ITA
• no. 2. O vos omnes (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG FRE GER
• no. 3. Jubilate Deo (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG
• Toward a Time of Renewal
• no. 1. Living (Text: Denise Levertov) *
• no. 2. Midnight Gladness (Text: Denise Levertov) *
• no. 3. The Fountain (Text: Denise Levertov) *
• no. 4. The Batterers (Text: Denise Levertov) *
• no. 5. The Altars in the Street (Text: Denise Levertov) *
• no. 6. The Open Sentence (Text: Denise Levertov) *
• no. 7. Beginners (Text: Denise Levertov) *
• Up Into the Silence
• no. 1. up into the silence the green (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
• no. 2. (will you teach a (Text: E. E. Cummings) *

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• Abraham and Orpheus (in A Revisitation of Myth) (Text: Delmore Schwartz) *
• At the Piano (in Mourning Madrigals) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Beginners (in Toward a Time of Renewal) (Text: Denise Levertov) *
• Eggs Please (in Love in the Early Morning) (Text: Madeline Tiger) *
• ¡Esta desilusión penetrante y amarga (in La musica, los muertos y las estrellas) (Text: Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón) ENG
• ¿Esta música que tocan (in La musica, los muertos y las estrellas) (Text: Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón) ENG
• From the almanac of last things (in The Dream of Now) (Text: Linda Pastan) [x]*
• Hymn to Eros (in A Revisitation of Myth) (Text: Denise Levertov) *
• Icarus Swims (in A Revisitation of Myth) (Text: LuAnn Keener) *
• Incantation (Text: Carl Sandburg)
• In paradisum deducant te angeli (in Mourning Madrigals) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) CAT DUT
• Jubilate Deo (in Three Short Sacred Anthems) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG
• Let evening come (in The Dream of Now) (Text: Jane Kenyon) *
• Like a Girl (in The Door Standing Open) (Text: Robert Mezey) *
• Living (in Toward a Time of Renewal) (Text: Denise Levertov) *
• Look down, fair moon (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Making Love to the Milkman (in Love in the Early Morning) (Text: Susan Donnelly) *
• Midnight Gladness (in Toward a Time of Renewal) (Text: Denise Levertov) *
• Ms Lot (in A Revisitation of Myth) (Text: Muriel Rukeyser) *
• O magnum mysterium (in Three Short Sacred Anthems) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT DUT ENG ENG FIN FRE GER ITA
• On the beach at night alone (Text: Walt Whitman)
• On the Equator (in The Door Standing Open) (Text: Robert Mezey) *
• Orison of Ste. Theresa (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after St. Teresa of Ávila ) GER
• O vos omnes (in Three Short Sacred Anthems) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG FRE GER
• Plaint for a Prince and King (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Por doquiera que mi alma (in La musica, los muertos y las estrellas) (Text: Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón) ENG
• Reflections on water dreams (in The Dream of Now) (Text: Delmore Schwartz) [x]*
• Something Tapped (in Mourning Madrigals) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Tears (Text: Walt Whitman)
• The Altars in the Street (in Toward a Time of Renewal) (Text: Denise Levertov) *
• The Batterers (in Toward a Time of Renewal) (Text: Denise Levertov) *
• The dream of now (in The Dream of Now) (Text: William Edgar Stafford) [x]*
• The Fountain (in Toward a Time of Renewal) (Text: Denise Levertov) *
• The layers (in The Dream of Now) (Text: Stanley Jasspon Kunitz) [x]*
• The Open Sentence (in Toward a Time of Renewal) (Text: Denise Levertov) *
• The voice (in Mourning Madrigals) (Text: Thomas Hardy) FRI
• up into the silence the green (in Up Into the Silence) (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
• Vetus Flamma (in The Door Standing Open) (Text: Robert Mezey) *
• When lost in the forest (in The Dream of Now) (Text: David Wagoner) *
• (will you teach a (in Up Into the Silence) (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
• With My God the Smith (in The Door Standing Open) (Text: Robert Mezey) *

Last update: 2023-05-10 19:35:10