WORKS OF BENJAMIN LEES

 Song cycles and solo vocal works

Cyprian Songs (1960) 12'

for baritone and piano

Text: Richard Nickson

1. From what green island 2. Wake! For the night of shadows

3. Still is it as it was 4. Over me like soft clouds

FP: date unknown

Paumanok (1980) 12'

for mezzo-soprano and piano

Text: from Walt Whitman's "Sea Drift"

FP: December 9, 1980, Merkin Concert Hall, New York, Diane Curry, mezzo-soprano; Margaret Singer, piano

Songs of the Night (1952) 12'

for soprano and piano

Text: Richard Nickson

1. O shade of evening 2. A star fell in flames 3. The enemies

4. A whisper of rain 5. Fall to the night wind 6. On eastern hills

FP: June 5, 1952 First Unitarian Church, Los Angeles, Grace Lynn Martin soprano;

Benjamin Lees, piano

see also Four Songs of the Night under works for voice(s) and orchestra

Staves (1977) 15'

for soprano and piano

Text: Richard Nickson

FP: January 29, 1978, Town Hall, New York, Marni Nixon, soprano; Robert de Ceunyck, piano

Three Songs (1959) 10'

for contralto and piano

Text: Richard Nickson

1. The moonlit tree 2. Close all the doors 3. The angel

FP: February 2, 1968, Carnegie Hall, New York, Maureen Forrester, contralto; John Newmark, piano

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