Well Welcome

"Well Welcome" is the final song in Octaves and Sweet Sounds. Gertrude Stein's poem provides the text for this stylistically grand, declamatory and operatic work. It is the most challenging vocally, interpretively and pianistically.

--Esther Jane Hardenbergh

Date: 1990Composer: Richard HundleyText: Gertrude SteinSong Collection: Octaves and Sweet Sounds

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Octaves and Sweet Sounds (High Voice)

Composer(s): Richard Hundley

Song(s): 1. Strings in the Earth and Air Text: James Joyce
2. Seashore Girls Text: E. E. Cummings
3. Moonlight's Watermelon Text: Jose Garcia Villa
4. Straightway Beauty On Me Waits Text: James Purdy
5. Well Welcome Text: Gertrude Stein

Voice Type: High

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Octaves and Sweet Sounds (Medium Voice)

Composer(s): Richard Hundley

Song(s): 1. Strings in the Earth and Air Text: James Joyce
2. Seashore Girls Text: E. E. Cummings
3. Moonlight's Watermelon Text: Jose Garcia Villa
4. Straightway Beauty On Me Waits Text: James Purdy
5. Well Welcome Text: Gertrude Stein

Voice Type: Medium

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