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Ben Moore: 14 Songs

Published by G. Schirmer, Inc.
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In the Dark Pinewood (text James Joyce)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree (text W.B. Yeats)
I Am in Need of Music (text Elizabeth Bishop)
When I Was One-and-Twenty (text A. E. Housman)
To the Virgins to Make Much of Time (text Robert Herrick)
Darkling I Listen (text John Keats)
Bright Cap and Streamers (text James Joyce)
I Would in that Sweet Bosom Be (text James Joyce)
The Ivy-wife (text Thomas Hardy)
The Lover Pleads with His Friend for Old Friends (text W.B. Yeats)
Annie Laurie (text William Morris)
This Heart That Flutters (text James Joyce)
The Cloak, the Boat and the Shoes (text W.B. Yeats)
On Music (text Ben Moore)

The G. Schirmer Collection of American Art Song –
50 Songs by 29 Composers

Collection includes “The Cloak, the Boat and the Shoes.”

Certain pieces of Ben's music are available through the following selling agent:

Classical Vocal Repertoire
www.classicalvocalrep.com
1-800-298-7474

Including:

Eight Songs

CVR 4320, $20

Song Collection for Voice and Piano

Lullaby (Christina Rossetti, 1830-1894)
Requiem (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894)
Hope is the Thing with Feathers (Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886)
When You Are Old (W. B. Yeats, 1865-1939)
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop (W. B. Yeats, 1865-1939)
Simples (James Joyce, 1882-1941)
Ah! Happy, Happy Boughs (John Keats, 1795-1821)
Where Are the Songs of Spring? (John Keats, 1795-1821)

So Free Am I

CVR 4315, $20

(Seven Settings of Poems by Women) Soprano
Commissioned by the Marilyn Horne Foundation and the ASCAP Foundation/Charles Kingsford Fund.

Mutta (anonymous, 6^th century B. C.)
Interlude (Amy Lowell, 1874-1825)
Orinda Upon Little Hector Philips (Katherine Philips, 1631-1664)
Nervous Prostration (Anna Wickham, 1884-1947)
Social Note (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967)
The Poem as Mask — Orpheus (Muriel Rukeyser, 1913-1980)
Mettika (anonymous, 6th century B. C.)

Cabaret and Theater Songs

CVR 3847, $15

Medium-High Voice and Piano
Music and lyrics by Ben Moore

See How a Flower Blossoms
Lonely Room
Were I to Touch You
I Believe
Let the Walls Fall Down
Let Me Explain
Where Has Summer Gone?

Comedy Pieces

Music and lyrics by Ben Moore

The Audience Song

(for Susan Graham) mezzo or Soprano
Sends up the stereotypes of the opera-going audience

CVR4319, $10

Content to Be Behind Me

(for Deborah Voigt/Brian Zeger) Soprano
Features the pianist in a mock competition between singer and accompanist with excerpts including Rachmaninoff and Schubert

CVR4318, $10

I Love Teaching Voice

(for Deborah Massell) Soprano
Includes every imaginable challenge and joy of teaching classical voice with quotes from lots of standard repertory

CVR4314, $10

I’m Glad I’m Not a Tenor

(Baritone)

Features many of the great melodies written for baritones even as Puccini’s Nessun Dorma keeps creeping in

CVR4317, $10

Sexy Lady

(for Susan Graham) mezzo-Soprano
The complaints of a mezzo stuck doing pants roles

CVR3846, $8

Wagner Roles

(For Deborah Voigt) Soprano
The complaints of a Wagnerian soprano who’d rather be singing lighter roles

CVR3501, $10

We Love the Opera

(Comedy Duet) Soprano/Mezzo — Baritone Duet
Features a couple who are having a hard time agreeing on which operas to attend, to say the least

CVR4316, $15