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So said composer Elinor Remick Warren. In this program we look at the lives and songs of generations of American women composers.
Related Educational ResourcesSong listings with composer / poet, performers, CD label, and CD number:
Ah, Love, But a Day (op. 44, no. 2)
Amy Marcy Beach
Robert Browning
Record#: EMI Classics 724355796424 (Deborah Voigt, soprano; Brian Zeger, piano)
Song Collection: Three Browning Songs, Op. 44
Twilight (op. 2, no. 1)
Amy Marcy Beach
Henry Harris Aubrey Beach
Thomas Hampson, baritone, and Craig Rutenberg, piano
Record#: recital in Winona, Minnesota, 2009 (Thomas Hampson, baritone; Craig Rutenberg, piano)
Song Collection: Three Songs, Op. 2
My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord
Florence Price
Spiritual
Record#: RCA Victor Red Seal 63306 (Marian Anderson, contralto; Franz Rupp, piano)
Songs to the Dark Virgin
Florence Price
Langston Hughes
Record#: Naxos 8.559136 2; track 11 (Darryl Taylor, tenor; Maria Corley, piano)
Poème d’Automne
Margaret Bonds
Langston Hughes
Record#: Albany Records TROY 385 (Louise Toppin, soprano; John O’Brien, piano)
Song Collection: Songs of the Seasons
A Parable: A Blade of Grass
Marion Bauer
Stephen Crane
Record#: Private recording (Jane Morrow King, mezzo-soprano; David King, piano)
Rat Riddles
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Carl Sandburg
Record#: Naxos 8.559197 (Nan Hughes, mezzo-soprano; Continuum Ensemble conducted by Joel Sachs)
Song Collection: Three Songs
Her Greatest Charm
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Record#: Elektra Nonesuch 79178 (Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano; Gilbert Kalish, piano)
Nothin' But Love
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
George N. Alsop
Record#: Elektra Nonesuch 79178 (Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano; Gilbert Kalish, piano)
American Lullaby
Gladys Rich
Gladys Rich
Record#: Albany Records TROY 385 (Jay Pierson, baritone; John O’Brien, piano)
The Blue Juniata
Marion Dix Sullivan
J. W. Sullivan
Record#: Pa’s Fiddle Recordings PFR 0163-2 (Ranger Doug, voice; Riders in the Sky Ensemble)
Ojalá
Margaret Ruthven Lang
George Eliot
Record#: Delos DE3407 (Donald George, tenor; Lucy Mauro, piano)
Bucking Bronco
Libby Larsen
Belle Starr
Record#: Albany Records TROY 385 (Louise Toppin, soprano; John O’Brien, piano)
Song Collection: Three Cowboy Songs
Sweetgrass Range
Elinor Remick Warren
Edwin Ford Piper
Record#: Mac/Eddy Records JN 187 (Nelson Eddy, baritone; Robert Armbruster conducts the Kraft Music Hall Orchestra)
She Weeps Over Rahoon
Miriam Gideon
James Joyce
Record#: New World Records 80393 (William Sharp, baritone; Walter Hilse, piano)
The Kiss
Lori Laitman
Sara Teasdale
Record#: Albany Records TROY 393 (William Sharp, baritone; Lori Laitman, piano)
Song Collection: Mystery
God Be In My Heart
Elinor Remick Warren
Anonymous
Thomas Hampson, baritone; Wolfram Rieger, piano
Record#: THM 5432
At the beginning of the 20th century, deeply influenced by Dvorak’s challenge to Americans to find their own musical voices, Arthur Farwell used music of Native Americans and words of American poets as inspiration for his own unique voice. He also pioneered the publishing of American composers and poets through his famed Wa-Wan Press.
The reclusive poet explored all of life’s emotions, and there are hundreds of compelling settings of her poems, by composers from Ernst Bacon to André Previn to Ned Rorem.
