Songfest : a cycle of American poems for six singers and orchestra / Leonard Bernstein.

Format:

Musical score

Author/Creator:

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990.

Standardized Title:

Songfest. Vocal score

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vocal sextets with orchestra--Vocal scores with piano.

Vocal sextets with orchestra.

Song cycles.

Genre:

Songs.

Notated music.

Physical Description:

viii unnumbered pages, 82 pages ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Amberson : Boosey & Hawkes, [sole selling agent], [1977]

Contents:

Opening hymn: To the poem (F. O'Hara).

Three solos: The pennycandystore beyond the el (L. Ferlinghetti). A Julia de Burgos (J. de Burgos). To what you said ... (W. Whitman).

Three ensembles: Duet: I, too, sing America (L. Hughes). Okay "Negroes" (J. Jordan). Trio: To my dear and loving husband (A. Bradstreet). Duet: Storyette H. M. (G. Stein).

Sextet: If you can't eat you got to (E. E. Cummings).

Three solos: Music I heard with you (C. Aikin). Zizi's lament (G. Corso). Sonnet: What lips my lips have kissed ... (E. St. Vincent Milay).

Closing hymn: Israfel (E. A. Poe)

Notes:

Words also printed as text (p. [iv]-[vii])

Duration: 40 min., 30 sec.

OCLC:

6420247

Publisher Number:

Pl. no. BH.BK. 793.