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Composer: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman (1949-)

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Alphabetic listing of musical settings [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

An Australian Odyssey

no. 1. Love sonnet #9 (Text: Edith Speers) [x]*
no. 2. I remember (Text: Jacob Rosenberg) [x]*
no. 3. No more boomerang (Text: Oodgeroo Noonuccal) [x]*
no. 4. The golem (Text: Alex Skovron) [x]*
no. 5. Fugue (Text: Alison Croggon) [x]*
no. 6. Credo (Text: Alex Skovron) [x]*
no. 7. Missing him (Text: Jordie Albiston) [x]*
no. 8. After Babel (Text: Peter Goldsworthy, AM) [x]*
no. 9. Our love is so natural (Text: Judith Arundell Wright) [x]*
no. 10. A strange bird (Text: Michael Dransfield) [x]*
no. 11. Antipodean heads (Text: John Forbes) [x]*
no. 12. Europe, endless (Text: John Forbes) [x]*
no. 13. Crosstalk (Text: John Ernest Tranter) [x]*
no. 14. Erstwhile (Text: Chris Wallace-Crabbe, AO) [x]*
no. 15. Fairytale (Text: Ania Walwicz) [x]*
no. 16. Portrait (Text: Judith Arundell Wright) [x]*
no. 17. Woman's song (Text: Judith Arundell Wright) *
no. 18. Equatorial (Text: Ian McBryde) [x]*

An Edith Segal Love Song Cycle , op. 107

no. 1. Remembrance (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*
no. 2. Severance (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*
no. 3. The two (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*
no. 4. Loneliness (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*
no. 5. Scars (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*
no. 6. Your hand (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*
no. 7. Waiting (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*

Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen) , op. 72

no. 1. At the border [multi-text setting] ENG
no. 1. An der Grenze [multi-text setting] ENG
no. 2. Cologne [multi-text setting] ENG
no. 2. Köln [multi-text setting] ENG
no. 3. Eastward [multi-text setting] ENG
no. 3. Ostwärts [multi-text setting] ENG
no. 4. The wolves (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine) [x]
no. 4. Mit den Wölfen (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
no. 5. The sun (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine) [x]
no. 5. Die Sonne (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
no. 6. Die feste Burg (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
no. 6. The mighty fort (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine) [x]
no. 7. At the inn (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine) [x]
no. 7. Im Wirtshaus (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
no. 8. At mother's (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine)
no. 8. Bei der Mutter (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
no. 9. We Jews (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine)
no. 9. Wir Juden (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
no. 10. The goddess [multi-text setting] ENG
no. 10. Die Göttin [multi-text setting] ENG
no. 11. Das Versprechen (Text: Heinrich Heine) [x] ENG
no. 11. The promise (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine) [x]
no. 12. What she revealed [multi-text setting] ENG
no. 12. Was ich gesehn [multi-text setting] ENG

Growing up woman , op. 54 [musical]

no. 2. So low (Text: Barbara Tumarkin Dunham) [x]*

I Love New York , op. 59

no. 1. Dawn in New York (Text: after Federico García Lorca) [x]
no. 2. The subway beggar (Text: Eve Merriam) [x]

Long Island Songs of Seasoned Women , op. 186

no. 6. My song (Text: Lorraine Mund) *

Simple songs , op. 35

no. 1. Simple song (Text: John Suckling, Sir)
no. 2. Advice to Virgins (Text: Robert Herrick) SPA

Song Cyclette of Three Girls' Love Songs , op. 6

no. 1. Love's secret (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 2. When I am dead, my dearest (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) ITA GER WEL
no. 3. Sweet and low (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) GER

The bourgeois poet , op. 28

no. 1. Introductory (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
no. 2. The bourgeois poet (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
no. 3. Deep-thinking machine (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
no. 4. When suffering is everywhere (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
no. 5. How do I love you? (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) *
no. 6. The first time (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
no. 7. The world is my dream (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
no. 8. A'men (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]

Three School Songs , op. 109

no. 1. Cultural elite round [x]
no. 2. Presidents' song [x]
no. 3. Music - the beginning [x]

Two Abel Meeropol Rounds , op. 155

no. 1. The purple couch (Text: Abel Meeropol) [x]
no. 2. If all of the papers (Text: Abel Meeropol) [x]

Two Leigh Hunt Songs , op. 49

no. 1. Jenny kissed me (Text: Leigh Hunt)
no. 2. Abou Ben Adhem (Text: Leigh Hunt)

Two Shelley songs , op. 32

no. 1. Sonnetina #4 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
no. 2. Love's philosophy (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) FRE

Two songs of a madman , op. 36

no. 1. My soul is dark (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) RUS GER FRE NYN DAN FRE GER
no. 2. They say that Hope is happiness (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) FRE

All titles of vocal settings in our database, in alphabetic order

A cereal Christmas carol, op. 151 [x]
A red, red rose, op. 47 (Text: Robert Burns) SWG GER CZE SWE GER
A songlet on an English love note, op. 41 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) GER
A strange bird, op. 149 no. 10 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Michael Dransfield) [x]*
Abou Ben Adhem, op. 49 no. 2 (in Two Leigh Hunt Songs) (Text: Leigh Hunt)
Advice to Virgins, op. 35 no. 2 (in Simple songs) (Text: Robert Herrick) SPA
After Babel, op. 149 no. 8 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Peter Goldsworthy, AM) [x]*
A'men, op. 28 no. 8 (in The bourgeois poet) (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
An der Grenze [multi-text setting] ENG, op. 72 no. 1 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen))
Answer to a child's question, op. 48 (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Antipodean heads, op. 149 no. 11 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: John Forbes) [x]*
At mother's, op. 72 no. 8 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine)
At the border [multi-text setting] ENG, op. 72 no. 1 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen))
At the inn, op. 72 no. 7 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine) [x]
Battle Cry of the Administration of the Music Library Association, op. 119 (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman) [x]
Be gentle, op. 110 (Text: Richard S. Gilbert, Reverend) [x]
Bei der Mutter, op. 72 no. 8 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
Cologne [multi-text setting] ENG, op. 72 no. 2 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen))
Conscience, op. 93a (Text: Abel Meeropol) [x]*
Credo, op. 149 no. 6 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Alex Skovron) [x]*
Crosstalk, op. 149 no. 13 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: John Ernest Tranter) [x]*
Cultural elite round, op. 109 no. 1 (in Three School Songs) [x]
Das Versprechen, op. 72 no. 11 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Heinrich Heine) [x] ENG
Dawn in New York, op. 59 no. 1 (in I Love New York) (Text: after Federico García Lorca) [x]
Deep-thinking machine, op. 28 no. 3 (in The bourgeois poet) (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
Deutschland, op. 57 (Text: Bertolt Brecht) [x]
Die feste Burg, op. 72 no. 6 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
Die Göttin [multi-text setting] ENG, op. 72 no. 10 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen))
Die Sonne, op. 72 no. 5 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
Eastward [multi-text setting] ENG, op. 72 no. 3 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen))
Equatorial, op. 149 no. 18 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Ian McBryde) [x]*
Erstwhile, op. 149 no. 14 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Chris Wallace-Crabbe, AO) [x]*
Europe, endless, op. 149 no. 12 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: John Forbes) [x]*
Fairytale, op. 149 no. 15 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Ania Walwicz) [x]*
Faith, op. 138 (Text: James Arthur Baldwin) [x]*
Fugue, op. 149 no. 5 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Alison Croggon) [x]*
Gesanglos war ich, op. 60 (Text: Heinrich Heine) FRE
Herz, mein Herz, op. 86 no. 1 (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ITA FRE RUS ENG FRE
Hillel Tripartite Mantra, op. 179 [x]
Hold fast to dreams, op. 170 (Text: Langston Hughes) *
How do I love you?, op. 28 no. 5 (in The bourgeois poet) (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) *
How do I love you? (Sonnetina #3), op. 28a (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) *
I remember, op. 149 no. 2 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Jacob Rosenberg) [x]*
I'd like to go alone, op. 105 (Text: Jeanne Němcová after Alena Munkova-Synková)
If all of the papers, op. 155 no. 2 (in Two Abel Meeropol Rounds) (Text: Abel Meeropol) [x]
If I could, op. 83 (Text: Marilyn Siegel ) [x]
Im Wirtshaus, op. 72 no. 7 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
Introductory, op. 28 no. 1 (in The bourgeois poet) (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
Jenny kissed me, op. 49 no. 1 (in Two Leigh Hunt Songs) (Text: Leigh Hunt)
Köln [multi-text setting] ENG, op. 72 no. 2 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen))
Life is a gift, op. 150 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x]
Little Alice from Amherst, Ohio, op. 44 (Text: Polly Joan) [x]
Loneliness, op. 107 no. 4 (in An Edith Segal Love Song Cycle) (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*
Love sonnet #9, op. 149 no. 1 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Edith Speers) [x]*
Love's philosophy, op. 32 no. 2 (in Two Shelley songs) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) FRE
Love's secret, op. 6 no. 1 (in Song Cyclette of Three Girls' Love Songs) (Text: William Blake) FRE
Man who man would be, op. 84 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Missing him, op. 149 no. 7 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Jordie Albiston) [x]*
Mit den Wölfen, op. 72 no. 4 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
Moj universitet, op. 25 (Text: Vladimir Mayakovsky) ENG
Music - the beginning, op. 109 no. 3 (in Three School Songs) [x]
My song, op. 186 no. 6 (in Long Island Songs of Seasoned Women) (Text: Lorraine Mund) *
My soul is dark, op. 36 no. 1 (in Two songs of a madman) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) RUS GER FRE NYN DAN FRE GER
My university, op. 25 (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Vladimir Mayakovsky)
No more boomerang, op. 149 no. 3 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Oodgeroo Noonuccal) [x]*
Not in a silver casket, op. 166 (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *
Ode to the City of Cologne, op. 67 (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Ostwärts [multi-text setting] ENG, op. 72 no. 3 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen))
Our love is so natural, op. 149 no. 9 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Judith Arundell Wright) [x]*
Portrait, op. 149 no. 16 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Judith Arundell Wright) [x]*
Presidents' song, op. 109 no. 2 (in Three School Songs) [x]
Remember me when I am gone away, op. 66 (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) ITA GER
Remembrance, op. 107 no. 1 (in An Edith Segal Love Song Cycle) (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*
Scars, op. 107 no. 5 (in An Edith Segal Love Song Cycle) (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*
Schattenküsse, Schattenliebe, op. 185 (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ROM ENG
Second Inaugural, op. 169 (Text: Abraham Lincoln) [x]
Severance, op. 107 no. 2 (in An Edith Segal Love Song Cycle) (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*
Shadow love, op. 185 (Text: Emma Lazarus after Heinrich Heine) ROM
Shalom rav, op. 130 [x]
Simple song, op. 35 no. 1 (in Simple songs) (Text: John Suckling, Sir)
So low, op. 54 no. 2 (in Growing up woman) (Text: Barbara Tumarkin Dunham) [x]*
Song, op. 11 (Text: Khalil Gibran) [x]
Sonnetina #1, op. 12 (Text: Marilyn Siegel ) [x]
Sonnetina #4, op. 32 no. 1 (in Two Shelley songs) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Sonnetina #7, op. 66 (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) ITA GER
Sonnetina #2, op. 14 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Sonnetina #5, op. 45 (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT ITA FRE FIN JPN
Spiele, op. 56 (Text: Peter Maiwald) [x]*
Sweet and low, op. 6 no. 3 (in Song Cyclette of Three Girls' Love Songs) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) GER
The bourgeois poet, op. 28 no. 2 (in The bourgeois poet) (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
The cautious struggle, op. 55
The cautious struggle, op. 55 [x]
The first time, op. 28 no. 6 (in The bourgeois poet) (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
The goddess [multi-text setting] ENG, op. 72 no. 10 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen))
The golem, op. 149 no. 4, op. 142 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Alex Skovron) [x]*
The mighty fort, op. 72 no. 6 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine) [x]
The night is darkening round me, op. 70 (Text: Emily Brontë)
The piper, op. 177 (Text: Karen Euler) [x]*
The Prayer of St. Francis, op. 193 (Text: after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
The promise, op. 72 no. 11 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine) [x]
The purple couch, op. 155 no. 1 (in Two Abel Meeropol Rounds) (Text: Abel Meeropol) [x]
The stairway, op. 135 [x]
The subway beggar, op. 59 no. 2 (in I Love New York) (Text: Eve Merriam) [x]
The sun, op. 72 no. 5 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine) [x]
The two, op. 107 no. 3 (in An Edith Segal Love Song Cycle) (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*
The wolves, op. 72 no. 4 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine) [x]
The world is my dream, op. 28 no. 7 (in The bourgeois poet) (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
There is a lady sweet and kind, op. 50a
They say that Hope is happiness, op. 36 no. 2 (in Two songs of a madman) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) FRE
Waiting, op. 107 no. 7 (in An Edith Segal Love Song Cycle) (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*
Was ich gesehn [multi-text setting] ENG, op. 72 no. 12 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen))
We Jews, op. 72 no. 9 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman after Heinrich Heine)
What can I give?, op. 145 (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
What she revealed [multi-text setting] ENG, op. 72 no. 12 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen))
When I am dead, my dearest, op. 6 no. 2 (in Song Cyclette of Three Girls' Love Songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) ITA GER WEL
When suffering is everywhere, op. 28 no. 4 (in The bourgeois poet) (Text: Karl Jay Shapiro) [x]
Where is the song of the artist on Long Island?, op. 165 (Text: Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman) [x]
Wir Juden, op. 72 no. 9 (in Ein Wanderer durch Deutschland, nach Heines Wintermärchen (A Wanderer through DEUTSCHLAND after Heine's Wintermärchen)) (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
Woman's song, op. 149 no. 17 (in An Australian Odyssey) (Text: Judith Arundell Wright) *
Your hand, op. 107 no. 6 (in An Edith Segal Love Song Cycle) (Text: Edith Segal) [x]*

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