Song Cycles and Solo Songs
Five Lyrics of Louise Bogan
Theodore Presser Company-sales
20:00
Mez, fl
text by Louise Bogan
1977
for Bonita Boyd
Hills, Woods, Brook: Three Love Songs
Poetry of Sound
14:20
voice, cl, tpt, vn, vc, pf, 1 perc [be, mar, 4wdblk, tri]
text by A.R. Ammons
1982
for the Univeristy of Connecticut
Moon Rain and Memory Jane
Poetry of Sound
35:00
S, 2 vc
text by May Swenson, Judson Jerome, Blaga Dmitrova, Sydney Russell, Robert Hayden, Liz M. Rosenberg
1984
Nara
Carl Fischer LLC-rental
16:00 (20:00)
S, fl, pf, 2 perc [2 timp, 2 toms, tam, maraca, jawbne, bd, whip, sm gong, tuned temple gong or ch, 8 high pitched drums (Moroccan clay drums)]
texy by Earle Birney
1970
for the Lyric Arts Trio
Shadow Wood
Theodore Presser Company-rental
22:00
Mez, 16 winds, perc -’93 version: mezzo, 2 (pc).1.2.bc.1/1.1.1.0/db (w/low C) hp/4perc [be, vb, ch, mar, 4tri, 2sc, 3tams, wdblk, 2bd, picc sd, bongo, tamb, tmpb, metal wdch,glass wdch]
text by Tennessee Williams
1968
for Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory W.E., Frank Battisti, conductor (full band); SMU Meadows W.E., Jack Delaney, conductor (chamber ens.)
Songs for the End of the World
Poetry of Sound
30:00
Mez, hn, Eng hn, vc, mar
John Gardner
Gasparo GSCD-273 & Albany, TROY 236
1980
for the International Horn Society
(Three) Solitary Songs
Carl Fischer LLC-rental
06:30
med. voice (avail in treble and bass clefs), pf
text by Earle Birney, William Jay Smith, and Kenneth Patchen
1964
“Benson’s settings of texts (Songs for the End of the World) …had winning simplicity.
- The New York Times


