Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by A. Hailstork

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Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork (b. 1941)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

A Charm at Parting

no. 1. Call this whatever name (Text: Anonymous after Stepan Shchipachyov) [x]
no. 2. I loved you (Text: Zola Essman after Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin) [x] CHI CZE FRE ITA POL RUS UKR
no. 3. Finis (Text: Waring Cuney) [x]*
no. 4. A charm at parting (Text: Mary Phelps) [x]

Common Ground: An Operatic Songfest

no. 1. Ode to Ethiopia / Compensation [multi-text setting]
no. 2. A love letter (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
no. 3. A frolic (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
no. 4. The Awakening (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
no. 5. Thou art my lute (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
no. 6. Little Brown Baby (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
no. 7. A Negro Love Song (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
no. 8. Discovered (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
no. 9. Accountability / A Hymn / An Ante-Bellum Sermon [multi-text setting]
no. 10. He had his Dream (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
no. 11. Ode to Ethiopia / Compensation [multi-text setting]

Five Dunbar Lyrics

no. 1. Morning (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
no. 2. Day (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
no. 3. The Awakening (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
no. 4. Sunset (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
no. 5. Good Night (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)

Four Love Songs

no. 1. My Heart to Thy Heart (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
no. 2. Invitation to Love (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
no. 3. Longing (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
no. 4. Goodnight (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)

I've Seen the Day

no. 1. Midway (Text: Naomi Cornelia Long Madgett) *
no. 2. For my Unborn Son (Text: Robert J. Abrams) [x]*
no. 3. Where Have You Gone? (Text: Mari Evans) *
no. 4. Midway (Text: Naomi Cornelia Long Madgett) *

Songs of Love and Justice

no. 1. Justice (Text: Martin Luther King, Jr.)
no. 2. Difficulties (Text: Martin Luther King, Jr.)
no. 3. Decisions (Text: Martin Luther King, Jr.)
no. 4. Love (Text: Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Summer. Life. Song. -- [Introduction to the Set]

no. 1. I shall keep singing (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER

Summer. Life. Song. -- 1. Summer Songs

no. 2. Answer July (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 3. As children bid the guest good-night (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 4. Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
no. 5. Over the fence the strawberries grow (Text: Emily Dickinson)

Summer. Life. Song. -- 2. Life Songs

no. 6. It's easy to invent a Life (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 7. In vain (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
no. 8. This is my letter to the World (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
no. 9. Tie the strings to my life, my Lord (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER

Three Simple Songs

no. 1. In vain (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
no. 2. The daffodils (Text: William Wordsworth) CHI CZE GER GER HUN POL
no. 3. Christmas Everywhere (Text: Phillips Brooks, Rev.)

Two Biblical Songs

no. 1. The Song of Mary (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x]
no. 2. The Song of Ruth (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x]

Ventriloquist Acts of God

no. 1. Ventriloquist Acts of God (Text: Ellen Wise) *
no. 2. Sun (Text: Ellen Wise) *
no. 3. Luna Moth (Text: Ellen Wise) *
no. 4. The True Story of Adam and Eve (Text: Ellen Wise) *
no. 5. Deep in the Dark (Text: Ellen Wise) *

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

Accountability / A Hymn / An Ante-Bellum Sermon [multi-text setting] (in Common Ground: An Operatic Songfest)
A charm at parting (in A Charm at Parting) (Text: Mary Phelps) [x]
A frolic (in Common Ground: An Operatic Songfest) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
A love letter (in Common Ground: An Operatic Songfest) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
A Negro Love Song (in Common Ground: An Operatic Songfest) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Answer July (in Summer. Life. Song. -- 1. Summer Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
As children bid the guest good-night (in Summer. Life. Song. -- 1. Summer Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
Behold, I Build a House (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x]
Call this whatever name (in A Charm at Parting) (Text: Anonymous after Stepan Shchipachyov) [x]
Christmas Everywhere (in Three Simple Songs) (Text: Phillips Brooks, Rev.)
Day (in Five Dunbar Lyrics) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Decisions (in Songs of Love and Justice) (Text: Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Deep in the Dark (in Ventriloquist Acts of God) (Text: Ellen Wise) *
Difficulties (in Songs of Love and Justice) (Text: Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Discovered (in Common Ground: An Operatic Songfest) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Finis (in A Charm at Parting) (Text: Waring Cuney) [x]*
For my Unborn Son (in I've Seen the Day) (Text: Robert J. Abrams) [x]*
Goodnight (in Four Love Songs) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Good Night (in Five Dunbar Lyrics) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
He had his Dream (in Common Ground: An Operatic Songfest) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
If We Must Die (Text: Claude Mckay)
I loved you (in A Charm at Parting) (Text: Zola Essman after Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin) [x] CHI CZE FRE ITA POL RUS UKR
In vain (in Three Simple Songs) (in Summer. Life. Song. -- 2. Life Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
Invitation to Love (in Four Love Songs) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
I shall keep singing (in Summer. Life. Song. -- [Introduction to the Set]) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
It's easy to invent a Life (in Summer. Life. Song. -- 2. Life Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
Justice (in Songs of Love and Justice) (Text: Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Little Brown Baby (in Common Ground: An Operatic Songfest) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Longing (in Four Love Songs) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Love (in Songs of Love and Justice) (Text: Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Luna Moth (in Ventriloquist Acts of God) (Text: Ellen Wise) *
Midway (in I've Seen the Day) (Text: Naomi Cornelia Long Madgett) *
Midway (in I've Seen the Day) (Text: Naomi Cornelia Long Madgett) *
Morning (in Five Dunbar Lyrics) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
My Heart to Thy Heart (in Four Love Songs) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Night (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Ode to Ethiopia / Compensation [multi-text setting] (in Common Ground: An Operatic Songfest)
Ode to Ethiopia / Compensation [multi-text setting] (in Common Ground: An Operatic Songfest)
Over the fence the strawberries grow (in Summer. Life. Song. -- 1. Summer Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower (in Summer. Life. Song. -- 1. Summer Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
Slave Song (Text: Frederick Douglass)
Sunset (in Five Dunbar Lyrics) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Sun (in Ventriloquist Acts of God) (Text: Ellen Wise) *
Tell Me Trees: What Are You Whispering? (Text: Theodore Wilson Harris, Sir) *
The Awakening (in Common Ground: An Operatic Songfest) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
The Awakening (in Five Dunbar Lyrics) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
The daffodils (in Three Simple Songs) (Text: William Wordsworth) CHI CZE GER GER HUN POL
The Song of Mary (in Two Biblical Songs) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x]
The Song of Ruth (in Two Biblical Songs) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x]
The True Story of Adam and Eve (in Ventriloquist Acts of God) (Text: Ellen Wise) *
This is my letter to the World (in Summer. Life. Song. -- 2. Life Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
Thou art my lute (in Common Ground: An Operatic Songfest) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Thou Art The Soul of a Summer's Day (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Tie the strings to my life, my Lord (in Summer. Life. Song. -- 2. Life Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
Ventriloquist Acts of God (in Ventriloquist Acts of God) (Text: Ellen Wise) *
Where Have You Gone? (in I've Seen the Day) (Text: Mari Evans) *

Last update: 2024-05-03 04:28:25