Rorem: 50 Collected Songs

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Description

One of the most prolific and respected of American art song composers, Ned Rorem is finally represented in a substantial, representative collection, which includes six songs never before published (in boldface in the contents list), and many newly published transpositions.

Contents:

• Absalom
• Alleluia
• Are you the new person?
• A Birthday
• Catullus: on the Burial of His Brother
• A Child Asleep in Its Own Life
• Chromatic Fantasy
• Clouds
• Come in (High Voice only)
• Confitebor Tibi (High Voice only)
• Conversation
• Early in the Morning
• The End
• Ferry me across the water
• for Susan
• A Glimspe (Low Voice only)
• Go, Lovely Rose (High Voice only)
• He Thinks Upon His Death (Low Voice only)
• I strolled across an open field
• I will always love you
• Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
• A Journey
• The Land of Fear
• Little Elegy
• Look down, fair moon
• The Lordly Hudson
• Love
• Love in a Life
• Nantucket
• The Nightingale
• O Do Not Love Too Long
• On a Little Bird
• On a Singing Girl
• Orchids
• Philomel (Low Voice only)
• Poem for F.
• Psalm 150
• Rain in Spring (Low Voice only)
• The Serpent
• Shelley's Vision
• The Sick Wife
• The silver swan (High Voice only)
• Sometimes with one I love
• Spring (Manley Hopkins)
• Spring (Koch)
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
• Such beauty as hurts to behold
• That shadow, my likeness
• To a Young Girl
• Visits to St. Elizabeths
• The Waking
• What if some little pain...
• While Sodom was occupied
• You, the young rainbow.