Songs By Voice Type - Mezzo-soprano  Songs By Voice Type - Mezzo-soprano

Songs By Voice Type - Mezzo-soprano

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Echo - with piano.

- setting of Christina Rossetti. The song deals with the memory of a deceased lover.

Four Dickinson Songs
- with piano.

- four settings of Emily Dickinson, covering a wide range of moods.

Mystery - with piano.

- settings of Sara Teasdale: themes of love.

Daughters
- with violin, cello and piano.

- settings of Anne Ranasinghe and Karen Gershon. Both poets escaped from the Nazis as teenagers, but lost their entire families. These poems were written years later, to their own daughters.

Homeless
- with piano.

- setting of Michael Flack (who survived 3 concentration camps).

Men with Small Heads
- with piano.

- Thomas Lux settings. Very humorous poems, all true tales. The title song won "Best Song" in the 2004 American Art Song competition.

This Space - with piano.

- single Thomas Lux setting about the poet's job of putting words to paper.

One or Two Things
- with piano.

- settings of  Pulitzer Prize winning poet Mary Oliver. Nature-inspired.

Round and Round
- with piano.

- settings of Anne Spencer Lindbergh. Works equally well for soprano or mezzo-soprano.  The poems cover several topics including love, depression, and alienation.

The Years - with piano.

- settings of Sara Teasdale. A tribute to long-lasting love.

Living in the Body - with saxophone
 
- Poems by Joyce Sutphen. 15 minutes.

Money - with piano.

- setting of Dana Gioia. A humorous take on money.

On A Photograph
- with piano.

- setting of John Wood. The poem is a beautiful contemplation of an old photograph of two men.

The Seed of Dream
- with cello and piano.

- settings of Vilna Ghetto survivor Abraham Sutzkever with translations by C.K. Williams and Leonard Wolf. Power first person accounts of hiding from the Nazis during WW II. . Hailed as "a masterpiece that should not be missed" by Dr. Sharon Mabry of The Journal of Singing.

The Perfected Life - with piano.

- Emily Dickinson settings, various moods, celebrating a life well lived.

Orange Afternoon Lover
- with piano.

- settings of Margaret Atwood. Songs about the course of an affair.

The Silver Swan - two version, one voice with piano, the other voice, with flute and piano.

- settings of Orlando Gibbons poem.

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