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Compositions (as of April 2015)
Poems of Madeleine L' Engle
Song cycle: To A Long Loved Love, Op. 1, for soprano and piano (1995)
1. “We who have seen the new moon grow old together”
2. “In the moonless, lampless dark now of this bed”
3. “I know why a star gives light”
4. “You are still new, my love. I do not know you”
5. “Words must be said, and silences be kept”
6. “Neither sadist nor masochist, I still”
7. “Because you're not what I would have you be”
3 Mythical “Beasties” for various voices (STB) and piano (1996)
1. “The Sea Monster” (tenor)
2. “The Mermaid” (soprano)
3. “The Dragon” (baritone)
Songs:
“Body, the Black Horse and the White,” for high voice and piano
Sonnet, “Within this Strange and Quickened Dust,” for high voice and piano
Sonnet, “Word” for high voice and piano
From The Journey with Jonah (a work in progress): Aria for bass-baritone (Jonah):
“And I do well to be angry, Lord”
Sonnet, “The prince is turned to dragon, beast or toad” for high voice and piano from
To A Long Loved Love II
Poetry of William Shakespeare
Sonnets:
Sonnet XVIII, “Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?”
Sonnet XIX, “Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws”
Sonnet XXVII, “Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed”
Sonnet XLIII, “When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see”
Sonnet LVI, “Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said”
Sonnet LXI, “Is it thy will thy image should keep open”
Sonnet LXXIII, “That time of year thou mayst in me behold”
Sonnet XCVII, “How like a winter hath my absence been”
Sonnet CIV, “To me, fair friend, thou never can be old”
Sonnet CVI, “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”
Sonnet CXXVIII, “How oft, when thou, my music, music play’st”
Sonnet CXXX, “My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun”
Sonnet CXLVII, “My love is as a fever, longing still”
Songs:
“Orpheus with his lute” (from King Henry VIII)
Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress” (from Twelfth Night)
Poetry of Edna
Sonnets:
“When you, that at this moment are to me”
“What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why”
“Into the golden vessel of great song”
“Life, were thy pains as are the pains of hell”
“I see so clearly now my similar years”
“The light comes back with Columbine; she brings”
“I know I am but summer to your heart”
“When I too long have looked upon your face”
“Love is not blind. I see with single eye”
“Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring”
“I shall go back again to the bleak shore”
Songs:
“Inland”
“Lament”
“God’s World”
Poetry of William Butler Yeats
3 Songs for tenor voice and piano (1995)
- “He wishes for the cloths of heaven”
- “He bids his beloved be at peace”
- “When you are old”
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