`Songfest`, a cycle of american poems for six singers and orchestra (1977),  (Bernstein)

Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990)


`Songfest`, a cycle of american poems for six singers and orchestra (1977)

   

1. Opening hymn: To the poem
Three Solos:
2. The pennycandy store beyond the El (Text: Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
3. A Julia de Burgos (Text: Julia de Burgos)
4. To what you said (Text: Walt...Read more
1. Opening hymn: To the poem
Three Solos:
2. The pennycandy store beyond the El (Text: Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
3. A Julia de Burgos (Text: Julia de Burgos)
4. To what you said (Text: Walt Whitman)
Three Ensembles:
5. Duet: I, too, sing America (Text: Langston Hughes)
6. Trio: To my dear and loving husband (Text: Anne Bradstreet)
7. Storyette H.M.
8. Sextet: If you can’t eat you got to (Text: E.E. Cummings)
Three Solos:
9. Music I heard with you (Text: Conrad Aiken)
10. Zizi’s lament (Text: Gregory Nunzio Corso)
11. Sonnet: What lips my lips have kissed (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
12. Closing Hymn: Israfel (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)

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