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John Musto, a Brooklyn native educated at Manhattan School of Music, often performs with soprano Amy Burton. He has long been associated with the New York Festival of Song and has served as the new music advisor of this festival.
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Songs
Angels Have I None/The Phoenix Prayer
John Musto
Katherine Mosby
Song Collection: The Book of Uncommon Prayer
as is the sea marvelous
John Musto
E. E. Cummings
Song Collection: Viva Sweet Love
Calypso
John Musto
W. H. Auden
Song Collection: The Book of Uncommon Prayer
Chorale: Breathe on the Living
Kenneth Patchen
Song Collection: The Book of Uncommon Prayer
Christmas Carol (To Jesus on His Birthday)
John Musto
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Song Collection: Quiet Songs
Confitébor/Bleach my bones
John Musto
Katherine Mosby
Song Collection: The Book of Uncommon Prayer
Could Be
John Musto
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Shadow of the Blues
Crystal Palace Market
John Musto
James Laughlin
Song Collection: Viva Sweet Love
Dove Sta Amore
Song CollectionJohn Musto
James Agee
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Carl Sandburg
Dove Sta Amore
John Musto
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Song Collection: Dove Sta Amore
Enough Rope
Song CollectionJohn Musto
Dorothy Parker
For I Have Come So Long
John Musto
Katherine Mosby
Song Collection: The Book of Uncommon Prayer
Heartbeats
John Musto
Melvin Dixon
Help Me to Laugh
John Musto
Katherine Mosby
Song Collection: The Book of Uncommon Prayer
How Many Little Children Sleep
John Musto
James Agee
Song Collection: Dove Sta Amore
I Stop Writing the Poem
John Musto
Tess Gallagher
Song Collection: The Book of Uncommon Prayer
Intermezzo
John Musto
Song Collection: Quiet Songs
Island
John Musto
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Shadow of the Blues
Keep Watch
John Musto
Song Collection: The Book of Uncommon Prayer
Let Sing the Bedsprings
John Musto
Katherine Mosby
Song Collection: The Book of Uncommon Prayer
Litany
John Musto
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Shadow of the Blues
Lullaby
John Musto
Léonie Adams
Song Collection: Quiet Songs
maggie and milly and molly and may
John Musto
E. E. Cummings
Song Collection: Quiet Songs
Maybe
John Musto
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Dove Sta Amore
Nude at the Piano
John Musto
Mark Campbell
Old Photograph
John Musto
Archibald MacLeish
Song Collection: The Book of Uncommon Prayer
Palm Sunday: Naples
John Musto
Arthur Symons
Song Collection: Quiet Songs
Quiet Song
John Musto
Eugene O’Neill
Song Collection: Quiet Songs
Quiet Songs
Song CollectionLéonie Adams
E. E. Cummings
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Eugene O’Neill
Arthur Symons
Rome: In the Café
John Musto
James Laughlin
Song Collection: Viva Sweet Love
San Jose Symphony Reception (Flagrante delicto)
John Musto
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Song Collection: The Book of Uncommon Prayer
Sea Chest
John Musto
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Dove Sta Amore
Shadow of the Blues
Song CollectionJohn Musto
Langston Hughes
Silhouette
John Musto
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Shadow of the Blues
Some Last Words
John Musto
Mark Strand
Song Collection: The Book of Uncommon Prayer
sweet spring
John Musto
E. E. Cummings
Song Collection: Viva Sweet Love
Teach Me the Beauty
John Musto
Katherine Mosby
Song Collection: The Book of Uncommon Prayer
The Book of Uncommon Prayer
Song CollectionJohn Musto
W. H. Auden
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Tess Gallagher
Archibald MacLeish
Katherine Mosby
Kenneth Patchen
Mark Strand
The Hangman at Home
John Musto
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Dove Sta Amore
The Two Priests & Music and Drum
John Musto
Archibald MacLeish
Song Collection: The Book of Uncommon Prayer
Viva Sweet Love
Song CollectionJohn Musto
E. E. Cummings
James Laughlin
Words To Be Spoken
John Musto
Archibald MacLeish
Song Collection: The Book of Uncommon Prayer
You Came as a Thought
James Laughlin
Song Collection: Viva Sweet Love
Videos
Recordings
American Anthem
(Samuel Barber, William Bolcom, Aaron Copland, Lee Hoiby, Charles Ives, John Musto, John Jacob Niles, Ned Rorem and Gene Scheer)
1998
American Anthem: From Ragtime to Art Song
(Samuel Barber, Lee Hoiby, Charles Ives, John Musto, John Jacob Niles, Ned Rorem, Aaron Copland and William Bolcom)
1998
American Art Song Today: Alive!
(Daron Aric Hagen, Libby Larsen, John Musto and Joseph Turrin)
2009
American Composers at Play
(William Bolcom, Ricky Ian Gordon, Lori Laitman and John Musto)
2020
American Song Recital
(Leonard Bernstein, William Bolcom, Paul Bowles, John Corigliano, John Woods Duke, Richard Hundley, Lori Laitman, John Musto and Richard Pearson Thomas)
1992
Crazy Jane
(George Crumb, David Leisner and John Musto)
2010
Dreamer - A Portrait of Langston Hughes
(Margaret Bonds, William Grant Still, Kurt Weill, Henry T. Burleigh, Robert Owens, John Musto, Ricky Ian Gordon, Howard Swanson, Jean Berger, Erik Santos and Florence Price)
2001
Heartbeats: The AIDS Quilt Songbook
(William Bolcom, Chris DeBlasio, John Harbison, Libby Larsen, John Musto and Donald Wheelock)
1980
Intersection: Jazz Meets Classical Song
(Lee Hoiby and John Musto)
2014
The Opera America Songbook--Volume 1
(Mark Campbell, Richard Danielpour, Daron Aric Hagen, Lowell Liebermann, Amy Lowell, John Musto, Carl Sandburg, William Shakespeare and Robert Louis Stevenson)
2012
Works By Thomson, Bowles, Hoiby, Hundley
(Paul Bowles, Lee Hoiby, Richard Hundley, John Musto, Virgil Thomson and Tennessee Williams)
1988
Sheet Music
Shadow of the Blues
Composer(s): John Musto
Song(s): 1. Silhouette
2. Litany
3. Island
4. Could Be