5 songs for Baritone and Piano, on sonnets by William Shakespeare
Duration:
30 minutes
Composition:
2000 — Simsbury, CT
Dedication:
For David
First Performance:
Richard Lalli, baritone
Juliana Hall, piano
Sunday, April 29, 2001
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Hartford, CT
1 – Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
2 – Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day
3 – Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
4 – When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
5 – Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
