Desire

"Desire" is the first song in Charles Samuel Brown's song set Four Songs for Christine, which are based on the journal entries of artist Xavier de Callataÿ.

Date: 1994Composer: Charles Samuel BrownText: Xavier de CallataÿSong Collection: Four Songs for Christine

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    “Desire”
    by Xavier de Callataÿ.

    When touching originating in desire becomes affectionate
    The gentleness acts as music,
    And the painted music becomes the symphony
    The visual passage from becoming to being.

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      An Anthology of African and African Diaspora Songs - 60 Songs

      Composer(s): H. Leslie Adams, David N. Baker, Margaret Bonds, Charles Brown, H. T. Burleigh, Valerie Capers, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Arthur Cunningham, Harriette Davison Watkins, William Dawson, Mark Fax, Bruce Forsythe, Antônio Carlos Gomes, Adolphus Hailstork, Jacqueline Hairston, Maud Cuney Hare, Jeraldine Herbison, Jonathan Holland, Sylvia Hollifield, Langston Hughes, J. Rosamond Johnson, Thomas Kerr, Lena McLin, Undine Smith Moore, Andre Myers, Camille Nickerson, Fred Onovwerosuoke, Eurydice Osterman, Robert Owens, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Zenobia Powell Perry, Rosephanye Powell, Florence Price, Dave Ragland, Nadine Shanti, Carlos Simon, Hale Smith, Irene Britton Smith, Brandon Spencer, Hilbert Stewart, Howard Swanson, George Walker, Aurelia Young

      Song(s): Amazing Grace (H. Leslie Adams)
      Christmas Lullaby (H. Leslie Adams)
      Sence You Went Away (H. Leslie Adams)
      The Heart of a Woman (H. Leslie Adams)
      The Alarm Clock (David N. Baker)
      The Negro Speaks of Rivers (Margaret Bonds)
      Caring (Charles Brown)
      Desire (Charles Brown)
      Your Eyes So Deep (H. T. Burleigh)
      Your Lips Are Wine (H. T. Burleigh)
      Autumn (Valerie Capers)
      Elëanore (Samuel Coleridge-Taylor)
      The Willow Song (Samuel Coleridge-Taylor)
      Minakesh (Arthur Cunningham)
      Stars (Harriette Davison Watkins)
      Out in the Fields (William Dawson)
      The Refused (Mark Fax)
      With Rue My Heart Is Laden (Bruce Forsythe)
      Suspiro d’alma (Antônio Carlos Gomes)
      If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking (Adolphus Hailstork)
      Longing (Adolphus Hailstork)
      Loveliest of Trees (Adolphus Hailstork)
      Dormi, Jesu (Jacqueline Hairston)
      Gardé Piti Mulet Là (Maud Cuney Hare)
      I’ll Not Forget (Jeraldine Herbison)
      Little Elegy (Jonathan Holland)
      In Time of Silver Rain (Sylvia Hollifield)
      The Founding Fathers (Langston Hughes)
      This is My Land (Langston Hughes)
      L’il Gal (J. Rosamond Johnson)
      Soliloquy (Thomas Kerr)
      Amazing Grace (Lena McLin)
      The Year’s at the Spring (Lena McLin)
      I Am in Doubt (Undine Smith Moore)
      I Want to Die While You Love Me (Undine Smith Moore)
      For a Poet (Andre Myers)
      Chere, Mo Lemmé Toi (Camille Nickerson)
      Gué, Gué, Solingaie (Camille Nickerson)
      Mshila (Fred Onovwerosuoke)
      Entreaty (I Am the Rose of Sharon) (Eurydice Osterman)
      Could I but Ride Indefinite (Robert Owens)
      Die Nacht (Robert Owens)
      From the Dark Tower (Robert Owens)
      The Lynching (Robert Owens)
      The Secret (Robert Owens)
      Madrigal (Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson)
      O Children of Men (Zenobia Powell Perry)
      I Want to Die While You Love Me (Rosephanye Powell)
      Spring (Florence Price)
      The Sum (Florence Price)
      Martin Luther King, Jr. (Dave Ragland)
      Mangez, Boulez (Eat, Drink, Be Merry) (Nadine Shanti)
      Prayer (Carlos Simon)
      Troubled Woman (Hale Smith)
      Why Fades a Dream? (Irene Britton Smith)
      Dream Variations (Brandon Spencer)
      Spring Song (Hilbert Stewart)
      One Day (Howard Swanson)
      I Went to Heaven (George Walker)
      Norris Swamp (Aurelia Young)

      Voice Type: 36 Songs are for High Voice - Medium to High Voice
      24 Songs are for Medium - Medium to Low Voice

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