“Benson’s settings of texts (Songs for the End of the World) …had winning simplicity.

                       - The New York Times

Song Cycles and Solo Songs
Five Lyrics of Louise Bogan – My Voice Not Being Proud
Five Lyrics of Louise Bogan – The Alchemist
Five Lyrics of Louise Bogan – Juan’s Song
Five Lyrics of Louise Bogan – Fifteenth Farewell II
Five Lyrics of Louise Bogan – Knowledge

Theodore Presser Company-sales
Jan DeGaetani, mezzo soprano, Bonita Boyd, flute
Gasparo GSCD-261
20:00
Mez, fl
text by Louise Bogan
1977
for Bonita Boyd
Hills, Woods, Brook: Three Love Songs
Subito Music/The Online Subito Store 
14:20
voice, cl, tpt, vn, vc, pf, 1 perc [be, mar, 4wdblk, tri]
text by A.R. Ammons
1982
for the University of Connecticut
Moon Rain and Memory Jane – Why We Die
Moon Rain and Memory Jane – Child’s Game
Moon Rain and Memory Jane – To My Father
Moon Rain and Memory Jane – Dust
Moon Rain and Memory Jane – Mourning For the Queen of Sunday
Moon Rain and Memory Jane – Endless Life

Subito Music/The Online Subito Store 
Performed by Lucy Shelton, soprano, Steve Doane, cello, Steven Isserlis, cello
Gasparo GSCD-261
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)]
text by Earle Birney
1970
for the Lyric Arts Trio
Shadow Wood – Shadow Wood
Shadow Wood – My Little One
Shadow Wood – Old Men Are Fond
Shadow Wood – Covenant
Shadow Wood – We Have Not Long To Love
Shadow Wood – The Last Wine

Keiser Productions, Inc. 
Performed by Virginia Dupuy, mezzo soprano and the Meadows Wind Ensemble
Jack Delany, conductor
Gasparo GSCD – 342
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 - I. Awakening
Songs for the End of the World - II. Two Step
Songs for the End of the World - III. Lullaby
Songs for the End of the World - IV. Spring
Songs for the End of the World - V. Siciliana
Songs for the End of the World - VI. Nocturne

Hal Leonard
Jan DeGaetani, mezzo soprano, Verne Reynolds, horn, Robert Sylvester, cello, John Beck, marimba, Phillip West, English horn
Albany Records: Troy 236
30:00
Mez, hn, Eng hn, vc, mar
John Gardner
1980
for the International Horn Society
(Three) Solitary Songs – American Primitive
Carl Fischer LLC
Excerpt “American Primitive”
Performed by Jan DeGaetani, mezzo soprano, Gilbert Kalish, piano
Nonesuch 79178-2
02:09
med. voice (avail in treble and bass clefs), pf
text by Earle Birney, William Jay Smith, and Kenneth Patchen
1964




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