Works
Voice with Accompaniment​
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A Woman of Valor (1962) [1:30]
For Mezzo-Soprano and Piano
Publisher: Transcontinental Music Pub. Co.
Ask Me (1979) [8:00]
In “Collected Songs for Voice and Piano”
Publisher: Southern Music Company
Premiere: Isabelle Ganz and Broken Consort; Houston, TX;
October, 1982.
Bar Mitzvah (1974) [3:00]
For Medium Voice and Piano
Publisher: Samuel H. Adler
Collected Songs for Voice and Piano (1990)
Three Songs about Love; Three Songs about the Time of Man; Two
Songs from the Portuguese; Ask Me; Just So; Many Times; Unholy
​ Sonnets; Two Traditional Japanese Songs; Three Psalms
Publisher: Southern Music Company
Recording: Gasparo Records called “Unholy Sonnets” Gasparo 322
Cupid Is (1968) [15:00]
A Cycle
For Baritone and Piano
Publisher: Ludwig Music Pub. Co.
Text: Delmore Schwartz
Dabair Eylai Attah (Speak Thou to Me) (1970) [1:30]
For Soprano and Piano
Publisher: Cantors’ Assembly
Text: Amichai
Domestic Tranquility (1992) [12:00]
3 songs
For Soprano, Oboe, and Piano
Publisher: Ludwig Music Pub. Co.
Commission: the Plymouth Trio
Recording: Albany Records Troy 582
Four Songs about Nature (1950) [9:00]
For Soprano and Piano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Text: James Stephens
I Will Betroth Thee Unto Me (1965) [2:30]
For Soprano and Piano
Publisher: Transcontinental Music Publishers
In Praise of Labor (2004) [6:00]
In Hebrew
For Soprano and Piano
Publisher: Theodore Presser
Text: Ecclesiastes
Premiere: Rosalyn Barak; San Francisco; April 2005.
In Thine Own Image (1955) [2:00]
For Medium Voice and Piano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Text: Fania Kruger
In Memoriam: R.B.G. (2020) [5:00]
For High Voice and Piano
Words by Maya Angelou
Publisher: Theodore Presser
Premiere: Bethany Worrell, soprano and Taylor Flowers, piano, December 2020.
Just So (1988) [3:00]
In “Collected Songs for Voice and Piano”
For Soprano and Piano
Publisher: Southern Music Company
Lovesong (Rilke) (1989) [4:00]
Written for Jan DeGaetani and Phillip West
For Mezzo-Soprano and Oboe
Publisher: Theodore Presser
Many Times (1984) [4:00]
In “Collected Songs for Voice and Piano”
Publisher: Southern Music Company
Premiere: Rochester, NY; September 7, 1984.
My God, I Believe in You So Much (1974) [3:30]
Publisher: Transcontinental Music Publishers in a volume called
“Father–Son”
Of Love and Dreams (2013)
For Baritone and Piano
Based upon Irish Poetry
Publisher: Theodore Presser
Commission: Mark Delevan
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Of Musique, Poetrie, Nature, and Love (1978) [20:00]
For Flute, Soprano, and Piano
Publisher: Ludwig Music Pub. Co.
Premiere: Long Beach, California; October, 1981.
Recording: Naxos 8.559602
Of Saints and Sinners (1976) [12:00]
For Mezzo-Soprano and Piano
Publisher: Carl Fischer, Inc.
Recalling the Yesterdays (2002) [13:00]
For Soprano, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Violoncello, Piano, and Percussion
Publisher: Theodore Presser
Premiere: Dallas, TX; March 7, 2004.
Songs of Innocent Love (2016) [c.11’]
For Soprano, Violin and Piano
Poetry of Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger
Publisher: Theodore Presser
Commission: Sabine Goetz
Premiere: Sabine Goetz; Mainz, Germany; 2017.
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Song of Songs Fragments
For Mezzo-Soprano, Clarinet, and Piano
Publisher: Theodore Presser
Premiere: Berlin; 2009.
Songs with Winds (1969) [11:00]​
For Soprano and Woodwind Quintet
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Commission: the New York Wind Quintet
Recording: Gasparo set called “Unholy Sonnets”
The Passionate Sword (1974) [10:00]
For Mezzo-Soprano and Piano
Publisher: Carl Fischer, Inc.
The Rocking Horse Winter (1984) [7:00]
For Soprano, Oboe, Violoncello, and Piano
Publisher: Ludwig Music Pub. Co.
Premiere: Eastman School of Music; April 14, 1984.
Recording: Albany Records Troy 582; Crystal Records CD 640
Those Were the Days (2000) [9:00] (Donald Justice)
A Cycle of Four Songs for Renee Fleming
For Soprano and Piano, also for Soprano and Orchestra
Publisher: Carl Fischer, Inc.
Thou (1972) [4:00]
For Voice and Piano
Publisher: Transcontinental Music Publisher Album called “Father-Son”
Three Psalms (1987) [10:00]
In “Collected Songs for Voice and Piano”
Psalm 23; Psalm 92; Psalm 96
For Medium Voice and Piano
Publisher: Southern Music Company
Three Songs about Love (1953) [6:00]
In “Collected Songs for Voice and Piano”
Go Lovely Rose; A Ditto; Song
For Soprano and Piano
Publisher: Southern Music Company
Text: Old English
Three Songs about the Times of Man (1954) [6:00]
In “Collected Songs for Voice and Piano”
But I Was Young and Foolish; Old Age; Time, You Old Gypsy Man
For Mezzo-Soprano and Piano
Publisher: Southern Music Company
Text: various
Todesfuge (2005) [5:00]
For Tenor and Piano
Publisher: Theodore Presser
Text: Paul Celan
Two Songs for Three Years (1964) [6:00]
For Medium Voice and Piano
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Text: Ruth Whitman and Ogden Nash
Two Songs from the Portuguese (1956) [4:00]
In “Collected Songs for Voice and Piano”
Simple Song; Ballad
Publisher: Southern Music Company
Two Traditional Japanese Songs (1985) [5:00]
In “Collected Songs for Voice and Piano”
Komeri uta=Lullaby; Akai kutsu=Red Shoes
For Medium Voice and Piano
Publisher: Southern Music Company
Premiere: Teri Koide, soprano, Brady Allred, piano;
Eastman School of Music; March 28, 1986.
Unholy Sonnets (1985) [14:00]
In “Collected Songs for Voice and Piano”
The Good-Morrow; The Broken Heart; Woman’s Constancy; The
Indifferent; The Triple Foole
For Tenor and Piano
Publisher: Southern Music Company
Text: John Donne
Premiere: Joseph Evans, tenor, Jack Jones, piano; Palm Beach, Florida;
January 1986
While Listening to Music (2020) [7:00]
Two Songs for Soprano and Piano
Words by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Theodore Presser
Wish for a Young Wife (1966) [12:00]
A Cycle
For Tenor and Piano
Publisher: Ludwig Music Pub. Co.
Text: Theodore Roethke