Songfest: A Cycle of American Poems For Six Singers and Orchestra - Poems

Poems

Songfest includes settings of these poems:

  1. "To the Poem" (Frank O'Hara)
  2. "The Pennycandystore Beyond the El" (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
  3. "A Julia de Burgos" (Julia de Burgos)
  4. "To What You Said" (Walt Whitman)
  5. "I, Too, Sing America" (Langston Hughes) / "Okay 'Negroes' " (June Jordan)
  6. "To My Dear and Loving Husband" (Anne Bradstreet)
  7. "Storyette H. M." (Gertrude Stein)
  8. "if you can't eat you got to" (e.e. cummings)
  9. "Music I Heard With You" (Conrad Aiken)
  10. "Zizi's Lament" (Gregory Corso)
  11. "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed" (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
  12. "Israfel" (Edgar Allan Poe)

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