ALTO or MEZZO SONGS

Catherine Garner (piano), Douglas Moore-Monroe (clarinet), and Jami  Rhodes (mezzo-soprano) premiered All I Have to Bring Today

 

All I Have to Bring Today for mezzo-soprano, clarinet and piano (Emily Dickinson)

  1. It’s all I have to bring today – 2’45” – video link to first half of cycle
  2. Summer for Thee – 1’55”
  3. First Interlude (clarinet and piano) – 1’10”
  4. You Love Me – You Are Sure? – 2’50”
  5. You see I cannot see – your lifetime – 2’15”
  6. Second Interlude (piano) – 1’15”
  7. This might have been the hand – 3’15”
  8. The Bee is not afraid of me – 2’35”

I am a Creature Who Molts for alto, 2 flutes, 3 clarinets, 3 percussion and harp (R. Michael Daugherty) – not currently available.

  1. Once I thought in stagnant pools – 5’40”
  2. If rules are shells – 6’35”

A Whitman Sampler for alto and guitar (Walt Whitman) – 9’20”

Individual Songs

  1. “Madness” for soprano or alto and piano (Wilma Daugherty) – 3’15”. This song relates a mother’s frustration about household chores when she would rather have adventures wuth her child.  Performed here by Marguerite Krull, mezzo, and Lindsay Garritson, piano.
  2. “Music When Soft Voices Die” for soprano or alto and piano (Shelley) – 3’30”.  This song embraces memory as the way to keep love present even when one’s partner is absent.  Performed here by Marguerite Krull, mezzo, and Lindsay Garritson, piano.
  3. “My Dog” for mezzo, violin and piano (John Kendrick Bangs) – 4’45”
  4. “Tangerines, easy to peel” for soprano or alto and piano (Rob Smith) – 3’50”. This song is about remebering one’s father, who preferred oranges to tangerines.  She remembers watching him peel an orange and relates remembering her father’s hands as she peels her own  orange.
  5. “There is sweet music here” for soprano or alto and piano (Tennyson) – 2’50”