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Songs for Leontyne

Song Cycle by Lee Hoiby (1926-)

1. The doe

Language: English

Authorship

John Fandel (1925-)


Through the snow/ the graceful doe
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2. Evening

Language: English

Authorship

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)


Evening, when the measure skips a beat
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3. Autumn

Language: English

Authorship

Harry Duncan

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text

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)

Das Buch der Bilder

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The leaves are falling, falling down
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4. Winter song

Language: English

Authorship

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)


The browns, the olives, and the yellows died,
And were swept up to heaven; where they glowed
Each dawn and set of sun till Christmastide,
And when the land lay pale for them, pale-snowed,
Fell back, and down the snow-drifts flamed and flowed.

From off your face, into the winds of winter,
The sun-brown and the summer-gold are blowing;
But they shall gleam with spiritual glinter,
When paler beauty on your brows falls snowing,
And through those snows my looks shall be soft-going.

5. In the wand of the wind

Language: English

Authorship

John Fandel (1925-)


This was the day the trees turned silver
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6. The serpent

Language: English

Authorship

Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)

Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse of Theodore Roethke

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There was a Serpent who had to sing
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