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Bid Me No More Goodnight (SATB)
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Short, ardent love song; text by James
Shirley.
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Brief Thanksgiving (SATB + piano)
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Poem by Swinburne: "...we thank with brief thanksgiving
whatever god may be that no life lives forever, that dead men rise up never, that even the weariest river winds
somewhere safe to see..."
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Choral Sandberg (SATB)
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First of Three Sandberg poems: Methusaleh Saw Many
Repeaters.
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Choral Sandberg (SATB)
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Second of Three Sandberg poems: The
Sea-Wash.
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Choral Sandberg (SATB)
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Third of Three Sandberg poems: On A
Flimmering Floom You Shall Ride.
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Come Away, Death (SATB)
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Soulful setting of the Shakespeare verse.
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Concealment (SATB)
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Rollicking madrigal, dealing with a love triangle. Poem
by Matthew Prior.
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Dong With the Luminous Nose, The (SATB)
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Poem by
Edward Lear. The Dong searches for his lost love, the Jumbly girl: her head
was green and her hands were blue, and she went to sea in a sieve. |
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Fain Would I Change That Note (SATB)
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Lovely setting of the anonymous poem.
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Georgia (SATB)
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Love song to a beautiful woman. Poem by Virginia
McCormick.
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I Am He That Walks (SATB)
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Emotional setting of Whitman’s words; leads to a
powerful conclusion.
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If I Should Die Tonight (SATB)
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Hilariously lugubrious novelty song, great for encores.
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I'm Goin' Away (SATB)
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Effective arrangement of the old folk song. Short and
sweet.
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Kraken, The (SATB + piano)
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Tennyson’s atmospheric portrait of a sleeping sea
monster who wakes, only to die.
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Merry Old Souls (SATB)
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Morris Bishop’s poem, featuring outrageous rhymes and
gags. Great for encores.
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Never Seek To Tell Your Love (SATB)
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Short and sweet setting of the William Blake poem.
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Ode On St. Cecilia’s Day (SATB div + organ)
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Extended work Setting of the Dryden ode: “From harmony,
from heavenly harmony…”
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Orpheus With His Lute (SATB)
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A setting of the Shakespeare poem. Easy but effective.
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Sea Dirge (SATB div)
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Moving setting of Shakespeare’s “Full Fathom Five”.
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See She Wakes (SATB)
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Melodious love song, brief but intense. Poem by Congreve.
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Shenandoah (SATB)
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Highly personal version of the American folk song.
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Silver Swan, The (SATB)
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A new approach to the familiar madrigal text. Program
this together with the Gibbons setting for contrast.
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Songs My Brother-In-Law Taught Me (SATB div)
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Not a novelty number; a setting of three poems by the
outstanding American poet Bix Blaufuss (David Reznick’s brother-in-law,
hence the title). First in set: Why Don’t These Titles have anything to
do With The Songs?
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Songs My Brother-In-Law Taught Me (SATB div)
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Not a novelty number; a setting of three poems by the
outstanding American poet Bix Blaufuss (David Reznick’s brother-in-law,
hence the title). Second in set: Roman
Numeral Two
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Songs My Brother-In-Law Taught Me (SATB div)
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Not a novelty number; a setting of three poems by the
outstanding American poet Bix Blaufuss (David Reznick’s brother-in-law,
hence the title). Third in set: Ignore
Previous Title
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Spring Pastoral (SATB div)
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Evocative of forests and streams. Verse by Elinor Wylie.
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Starlight (SATB)
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Haunting love song. Poem by Herbert Trench.
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Sweet, Let Me Go (SATB)
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Agitato madrigal; eye-opening harmonic progressions.
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Things Visible And Invisible I (SATB) |
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Henry King. First of three ghoulishly funny poems by Hillaire
Belloc
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Things Visible And Invisible II (SATB)
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The Frog. Second of three ghoulishly funny
poems by Hillaire Belloc
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Things Visible And Invisible III (SATB)
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The Microbe. Third of three ghoulishly
funny poems by Hillaire Belloc
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Tiger, The (SATB)
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Powerful, atmospheric setting of the Blake poem.
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Universe Explained, The (SATB)
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First of three hilarious nonsense songs from the works
of Edward Lear: Walruses in Congress
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Universe Explained, The (SATB)
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Second of three hilarious nonsense songs from the works
of Edward Lear: Susan Pares, or Not
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Universe Explained, The (SATB)
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Third of three hilarious nonsense songs from the works
of Edward Lear: Lemons in Your Head
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Three Love Songs: Love's Games (SATB div)
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First in the cycle illustrating the stages of love:
courtship.
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Three Love Songs: Love's Triumph (SATB div)
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Second in the cycle illustrating the stages of love:
involvement.
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Three Love Songs: Love's Fate (SATB div)
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Third in the cycle illustrating the stages of love: the
sad end.
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To My Love (SATB)
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Another quietly passionate lyric from Elinor Wylie.
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Velvet Shoes (SATB)
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Poetry of Elinor Wylie. Images of overwhelming softness,
whiteness, peace.
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Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo, The
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A
dramatic cantata based on Edward Lear's saga of the doomed love affair
between the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo and the Lady Jingly Jones, who lived "on the
coast of Coromandel, where the early pumpkins blow".
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Your Shining Eyes (SATB div)
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A 16th century madrigal verse, newly set.
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SSA/SSAA
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Echo (SSA)
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Poem by Christina Rossetti. Passionate and romantic.
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Tell Me Where is Fancy Bred (SSA)
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The well-known Shakespeare verse. Light and frothy.
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You Might As Well Sing (SSAA)
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First of four poems by Dorothy Parker: Would I Lie To
You?
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You Might As Well Sing (SSAA)
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Second of four poems by Dorothy Parker: One Perfect Rose.
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You Might As Well Sing (SSAA)
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Third of four poems by Dorothy Parker: Reluctant
Conclusion.
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You Might As Well Sing (SSAA)
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Fourth of four poems by Dorothy Parker: Some Men Blues.
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TTBB
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At Daybreak (TTBB)
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Choral setting of the poem by Siegfried Sassoon.
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Cured Bacon (TTBB)
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A man, a pig, a life-changing experience.
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Mysterious Night (TTBB)
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Wonderful poem by J. Blanco White, based on a
startlingly original concept, set for men’s voices.
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Set Free My Soul (TTBB)
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Serene, inspiring setting of Swinburne’s words.
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Toper's Prayer, The (TTBB)
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Lusty drinking song; text by William Blake(!). |
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