The Nantucket songs : ten songs for voice and piano

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The Nantucket songs : ten songs for voice and piano

Ned Rorem

Boosey & Hawkes, c1981

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Rorem, Ned, 1923- -- Nantucket songs

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For high voice and piano

English words, also printed as texts

Duration: ca. 18 min

Commissioned by the Eliabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation

First performed by Phyllis Bryn-Julson with the composer at the piano, Library of congress, Oct. 30, 1979

Contents of Works

  • From whence cometh song? / Theodore Roethke
  • The dance / William Carlos Williams
  • Nantucket / William Carlos Williams
  • Go, lovely rose / Edmund Waller
  • Up-hill / Christina Rossetti
  • Mother, I cannot mind my wheel / Walter Savage Landor
  • Fear of death / John Ashbery
  • Thoughts of a young girl / John Ashbery
  • Ferry me across the water / Christina Rossetti
  • The dancer / Edmund Waller

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