© by James Agee (1909 - 1955)
Sure on this shining night
Language: English
Available translation(s): SPA
Sure on this shining night [ ... ]
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.Authorship:
- by James Agee (1909 - 1955), "Description of Elysium", appears in Permit Me Voyage, stanzas 6-8, first published 1934, copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981), "Sure on this shining night", op. 13 (Four songs for voice and piano) no. 3 (1938), published 1961 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Morten Lauridsen (b. 1943), "Sure on this shining night" [ SATB chorus and piano ], from Nocturnes, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- SPA Spanish (Español) (José Miguel Llata) , "Sin duda en esta brillante noche", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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