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: 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 |