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