Composer: Ricky Ian Gordon (b. 1956)

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Listing of art song and choral settings in the database

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.

• Autumn Valentine
• no. ?. Resumé/Wail/Frustration [multi-text setting]
• Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs
• no. 1. Winter moon (Text: Langston Hughes)
• no. 2. Genius child (Text: Langston Hughes)
• no. 3. Kid in the park (Text: Langston Hughes)
• no. 4. To be somebody (Text: Langston Hughes)
• no. 5. Troubled woman (Text: Langston Hughes)
• no. 6. Strange hurt (Text: Langston Hughes)
• no. 7. Prayer (Text: Langston Hughes)
• no. 8. Border line (Text: Langston Hughes)
• no. 9. My people (Text: Langston Hughes)
• no. 10. Joy (Text: Langston Hughes)
• My Life with Albertine
• no. ?. Sometimes (Text: Ricky Ian Gordon; Richard Nelson) *
• The AIDS Quilt Songbook [multi-composer]
• no. 1. Fury, composed by David Wheelock (Text: Susan Snively) [x]*
• no. 2. Blues for an imaginary valentine, composed by Fred Hersch (Text: Fred Hersch) [x]*
• no. 3. Heartbeats, composed by John Musto (Text: Melvin Dixon) [x]*
• no. 4. A dream of nightingales, composed by Ned Rorem (Text: David Bergman) [x]*
• no. 5. Walt Whitman in 1989, composed by Chris DeBlasio (Text: Perry Brass) [x]*
• no. 6. The 80's miracle diet, composed by David Krakauer (Text: Melvin Dixon) [x]*
• no. 7. For Richard, composed by Annea Lockwood (Text: Eve Ensler) [x]*
• no. 8. Fairy book lines, composed by Donald St. Pierre (Text: Charles Barber) [x]*
• no. 9. Vaslav's song, composed by William Bolcom (Text: Ethyl Eichelberger) [x]
• no. 10. AIDS anxiety, composed by Richard Pearson Thomas (Text: Richard Pearson Thomas) [x]*
• no. 11. The flute of interior time, composed by John H. Harbison (Text: Robert Bly after Kabir) *
• no. 12. The birds of sorrow, composed by Carl Byron (Text: Ron Schreiber) [x]*
• no. 13. Investiture at Cecconi's, composed by Lee Hoiby (Text: James Ingram Merrill) [x]*
• no. 14. A certain light, composed by Elizabeth C. Brown (Text: Marie Howe) [x]*
• no. 15. I never knew, composed by Ricky Ian Gordon (Text: Ricky Ian Gordon) [x]*
• no. 16. The second law, composed by Richard Wilson (Text: Stephen Sandy) [x]*
• no. 17. Perineo, composed by Libby Larsen (Text: Roberto Echavarren) [x]*
• no. 18. The enticing lane, composed by Steven Houtz (Text: Christopher Hewitt) [x]*
• Too Few the Mornings Be. Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano (Zu wenig Morgen sind’s. Elf Lieder für Sopran und Klavier, translated by Bertram Kottmann) GER
• no. 1. Too few the mornings be (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
• no. 2. If all the griefs I am to have (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
• no. 3. The bustle in a house (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
• no. 4. This is my letter to the world (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
• no. 5. You cannot put a Fire out (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
• no. 6. Bee! I'm expecting you! (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER GER
• no. 7. Poor little heart! (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
• no. 9. How happy is the little stone (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
• no. 10. Estranged from Beauty (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
• no. 11. Will there really be a morning? (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• A contemporary (Text: William Stanley Merwin) *
• A horse with wings (Text: Ricky Ian Gordon) *
• Bee! I'm expecting you! (in Too Few the Mornings Be. Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER GER
• Border line (in Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Bus stop (Text: Donald Justice) *
• Dream True (Text: Tina Landau) *
• Estranged from Beauty (in Too Few the Mornings Be. Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
• Genius child (in Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Heaven (Text: Langston Hughes)
• How happy is the little stone (in Too Few the Mornings Be. Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
• If all the griefs I am to have (in Too Few the Mornings Be. Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
• I never knew (in The AIDS Quilt Songbook) (Text: Ricky Ian Gordon) [x]*
• I understand you coyotes (Text: Ray Underwood) *
• Joy (in Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Kid in the park (in Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• My people (in Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• My sister's new red hat (Text: Ricky Ian Gordon) *
• New moon (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Open All Night (Text: James Agee) *
• Poem (Text: Frank O'Hara) *
• Poor little heart! (in Too Few the Mornings Be. Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
• Prayer (in Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Resumé/Wail/Frustration [multi-text setting] (in Autumn Valentine)
• Sometimes (in My Life with Albertine) (Text: Ricky Ian Gordon; Richard Nelson) *
• Song for a Dark Girl (Text: Langston Hughes) GER GER
• Souvenir (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Strange hurt (in Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Summer (Text: Ricky Ian Gordon) *
• The bustle in a house (in Too Few the Mornings Be. Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
• The red dress (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
• This is my letter to the world (in Too Few the Mornings Be. Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
• Three floors (Text: Stanley Jasspon Kunitz) *
• To be somebody (in Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Too few the mornings be (in Too Few the Mornings Be. Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
• Troubled woman (in Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Virginia Woolf (Text: James Marcus Schuyler) *
• Will there really be a morning (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• Will there really be a morning? (in Too Few the Mornings Be. Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• Winter moon (in Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• You cannot put a Fire out (in Too Few the Mornings Be. Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER

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Last update: 2021-07-06 12:39:03