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| As composed by Ned Rorem. Nineteen Songs for Medium Voice and Piano. Boosey & Hawkes Voice. With Softcover. 9x12 inches. 88 pages. Published by Boosey & Hawkes. (HL.48019275)
This moving group of songs set to 14 writers is a memorial to the composer's long-time companion. In the composer's words: The overall theme stresses nostalgia and loss, but also frustration and anger, and finally renewal, albeit renewal through defiance of death. Premiered at Alice Tully Hall in 2002 by baritone Kurt Ollmann and pianist Scott Dunn. Songs Include: A Youth in Apparel That Glittered At North Farm Death Stands Above Me Despairing To Be Happy Any More He Walks Beneath the Stars Hearing Music at His Mother's Funeral I Loved You, Atthis Memory Unsettled Mongolian Idiot Night Of the Scythians Paradise Lost Remembrance of Things Past The Bed The Man With Night Sweats The Suicide The Waves This Room Waiting for the Barbarians
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