Jeanne Singer (1924-2000)
Jeanne Singer (1924-2000)
Composer and pianist. BA Barnard College, Phi Beta Kappa, Honorary Ph.D. in Music. Performed world-wide. Jeanne Singer set over 150 poems to music as art songs, choral works and vocal-chamber settings combining voice with solo instruments. The poets are mainly American with a sampling of other languages. She composed a number of chamber works for various combinations of instruments including flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, harp, violin, viola, cello, piano. She completed a large work for orchestra and solo voice in two parts, "TRIBUTE TO RAOUL WALLENBERG" based on 2 American poems: TO BE BRAVE IS ALL (Madeline Mason) and AVENUE OF THE RIGHTEOUS (Anne Marx).
She studied composition at Columbia University under Douglas Moore and others. She was a private piano pupil of Nadia Reisenberg for 15 years. A recipient of the Artist Diploma (gold medal) from the National Guild of Piano Teachers, she has concertized extensively. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Music from World University in 1984.
Style is tonal, melodic, neo-romantic. Scores of all works available.
To Be Brave Is All (Dedicated To Raoul Wallenberg)
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any high voice, any string, any voice, piano, violin
Description: Text by Madeline Mason. Premiered Chelsea Center for the Arts, L.I., NY, for Wallenberg commemorative concert, 1992. Intense, dramatic with contrasting lyrical sections. Requires strong solo voice and expert violinist. "...intensely moving..." - L.I. review. Tape avail.
Galina's Song
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): Galina'39;s
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Text by composer. Premiered by Florence Hechtel at Chelsea Center, L.I., 1992. Cabaret or theater style with Russian flavor. Not difficult. Suitable for students as well as concert. Tape avail.
Two In The Zoo
Year: 1991
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any male voice, any voice, any woodwind, clarinet, piano, soprano, tenor voice
Description: Poem by Madeline Mason. Premiered by the Musinger Players 1991 at Pen & Brush, NYC. Starts humorously but ends philosophically. For professionals.
Time Tells (3 Songs)
Year: 1991
Duration (in minutes): 7'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Three humorous songs on aging. Poems by Dorsha Hayes and Rhoda Bandler. Premiered 1991 L.I. Composers' Alliance, Chapin Theatre, Huntington, NY.
Lost Garden
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, cello, mezzo soprano, piano, tenor voice
Description: Premiered Port Washington, 1989, A. Miskell, ten. Text by C. Lengyel; philosophical, dramatic, lyric cello is featured equally with voice. 12 concert performances, NY 1989-90. Rec CD & Cassette, Cambria Records. "...Most emotionally powerful song I have heard in some time...- Women's News, Westchester. COR PUBLISHING
Query To The Creator
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Premiered Nassau County Fine Arts Festival, 1987, A. Miskell, ten. Poem by D. Hayes; dramatic and humorous. Numerous performances USA. Rec CD & cassette, Records.
Andante
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Medium difficult; suitable advanced students and concerts. performed by Lincoln Center, Long Island, Un. Wisconsin."
Wry Rimes (Cycle)
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, any woodwind, bassoon, clarinet, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice
Description: 5 short poems by C. Lengyel; humorous. Premiered Nassau County Fine Arts Cent, 1987, F. Hechtel, sop, J. DePalo, cl. Delius Award 1988. Perf. Delius Festival, Jacksonville, FL; numerous other performances. Requires virtuosity. Tapes avail for 2 versions. Ten, bn version recorded CD & cassette, Cambria Records.
Wry Rimes Cycle
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, any woodwind, bassoon, clarinet, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice
Description: 5 short poems by C. Lengyel; humorous. Premiered Nassau County Fine Arts Cent, 1987, F. Hechtel, sop, J. DePalo, cl, Delius Award, 1988. performed Delius Festival, Jacksonville, FL; numerous other performances. Requires virtuosity. Tapes avail for 2 versions. Ten, bn version recorded CD & cassette, Cambria records.
Librarius (Cantata)
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 11'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: A cantata in praise of books. Text excerpts from Disraeli, Byron, Stoddard, J. Fitzgerald. Commissioned/Premiered Manhasset Public Library, 40th Anniversary. Other NY perf. 2nd Prize 1985 Composers & Songwriters Int.
Recollections Of City Island
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 11'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, oboe, piano, viola
Description: 1st prize CAAA 1986. Commissioned by L'Amore Di Musica Ensemble. Premiered Garden City, NY, 1985; 3 mvmnts. performed Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, radio. Contrasting scenic moods: Night Moorings; Church on the Corner; Nice Day on the Bay. Tape avail.
American Vision
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: 4 songs med/high voice. Lyrics J. Singer: "Find Your Own Way," "Ten Steps Ahead," "There is Darkness," "Hey, America!." Premiered F. Hechtel, sop, Int. Cong. IBA, New Orleans 1986. Am mus idioms: folk, gospel, etc. For professional soloist.
Follow, O Follow
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: piano, soprano, tenor voice
Description: Duet for solo voices. Commissioned by Austin Miskell. Premiered College of Sante Fe 1984. 1st prize CAAA 1986. Poem by Cornel Lengyel. Rec CD disc Cambria Records and cassette.
Songs From Later Years (Cycle)
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: 4 songs for high voice. 4 poems by Cornel Lengyel: "Harvest," "The Bargain," "Elegy," "Of Time Lost." Premiered Austin Miskell, Budapest, 1985. 1st Prize Composers & Song Writers International, 1985. Philosophical, varying moods. Rec CD & cassette, Cambria Records.
Ballad Of Changing Times
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: Light and humorous. Commissioned by Faerder Singers, Brooklyn NY. Premiered Norwegian Seamens Church, Brooklyn. Text by Composer.
Betrothal
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: baritone voice
Description: Text R. Bandler. Commissioned by National Society of Arts & Letters. Premiered National Arts Club, NYC, 1983, F. Hechtel, mez. Numerous performances USA. Lively Scottish dance-like flavor. Tape available.
I Would Sing Now
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Text C. H. Jacobs. Commissioned by National Society of Arts & Letters. Premiered National Arts Club, NYC, F. Hechtel, mez. Slow and introspective. Tape avail.
Old Wild Woman
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Commissioned by National Society of Arts & Letters. Premiered National Arts Club, NYC, 1983, F. Hechtel, sop. Poem by D. Hayes; dramatic and humorous. Numerous performances USA, Lincoln Center. Recorded CD & cassette, Cambria Records.
5 Galgenleider
Year: 1982
Duration (in minutes): 7'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: baritone voice, piano, soprano
Description: 5 songs. Commissioned by Florence Hechtel for Deutsches Haus, NYC. German poems by Christian Morgenstern; humorous. Premiered 1982. 1st prize Composers, Authors & Artists of America, 1986. performed Budapest, Hungary and Lincoln Center. "Music perfectly matching the poet's black humor..." - Boston review.
Reverie
Year: 1982
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Text D. Hayes. Premiered Nassau County Fine Arts Festival, 1983, M. Bismarck, sop. Romantic, very lyrical. performed NYC, Santa Fe, Budapest.
Mary's Boy
Year: 1981
Duration (in minutes): Mary'39;s
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: Commissioned by Anya Laurence. Premiered Toronto, Royal Academy Choir. Suitable for church as well as concert. Poem by James Harrison - lyrical version of the Passion. PLYMOUTH MUSIC
Four Songs Of Reverance (Cycle)
Year: 1981
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: baritone voice
Description: 4 songs: "Midnight," "Fiat," "For Justice," "Abode." 1st prize NLAPW, 1984; 1st prize Composers Guild, 1982. Poems have religious overtones, non-specific. Suitable church solos and concerts. Worldwide.
Go In Peace
Year: 1980
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: Grand Prize 1982 Composers Guild. Poem by Dorsha Hayes. Sombre, dramatic. performed Lincoln Center, Salt Lake City, Bogota, Columbia. College level chorus, concerts. Deals with death.
Grandmother's Attic
Year: 1980
Duration (in minutes): Grandmother'39;s
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument quartet, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, flute, oboe, violin
Description: Commissioned by L'Amore Di Musica Ensemble; 5 movements. Numerous performances USA, South America. Suggests American folk idioms. Medium difficult. Suitable for students as well as concerts. Tape avail. COR PUBLISHING
Come Greet The Spring
Year: 1979
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: 1st Prize Composers Guild 1979. Commissioned by North Shore Singers. Text by E. Boyd. Cheerful. Has soprano solo; lively piano part. Suitable High School, concerts. PLYMOUTH MUSIC
Choral Art Or Antics
Year: 1979
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: Text E. Boyd. Commissioned by North Shore Singers Chorale. Humorous.
American Indian Song Suite
Year: 1979
Duration (in minutes): 7'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: choral version; Premiered Bogota, Colombia, National Un. Choir, 1980. Based on Traditional Indian texts and songs. Perf. Lincoln Center, Hofstra University, elsewhere USA.
Suite For Horn And Harp
Year: 1979
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any brass, any string, harp, horn
Description: Commissioned by Arthur Goldstein, 1st prize CAAA, 1980; 4 movements. COR PUBLISHING
Salt Cathedral
Year: 1979
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any male voice, any string, any voice, piano, soprano, tenor voice, violin
Description: Commissioned by A. Miskell. Premiered Bogota, Colombia 1980. Mystical Text and mood. Other performances, NYC, Kansas Un., elsewhere USA.
Seaman's Wife
Year: 1978
Duration (in minutes): Seaman'39;s
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) a cappella
Description: a cappella single male voices (or men's chorus - see Choral list)
From Petrarch
Year: 1978
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any brass, any female voice, any high voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, any woodwind, clarinet, horn, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, tenor voice
Description: Commissioned by Green House Poetry Mag. Premiered Boston 1978; J. Struss, mez, D. Hoose, hn. Ten and/or sop version avail from composer (Trans. by L. Schwartz). Features horn solos tragic, lyrical. Numerous performances worldwide. Ten, hn, pn version recorded CD & cassette, Cambria Records. "Hauntingly expressive..." - The Horn Call. COR PUBLISHING
Composer's Prayer
Year: 1977
Duration (in minutes): Composer'39;s
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: Premiered Salt Lake City 1980. Commissioned by Ora Pate Stewart. 1st Prize Composers, Authors & Artists of America. Text by O. Stewart; inspirational but not religious. FERNWOOD
Legend
Year: 1977
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any woodwind, flute, piano
Description: Commissioned by Donnell Walden. performed Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, radio. Modal, melodic. For advanced performers. Medium difficult. COR PUBLISHING
Caprice
Year: 1977
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano
Instruments: any string, harp, harpsichord
Description: Fairly difficult; rapid continuous left hand.
Banquet
Year: 1977
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments
Instruments: any brass, any female voice, any high voice, any string, any voice, cello, horn, soprano
Publisher: Cor Publishing Co.
Description: Commissioned/Premiered E. Palmedo, soprano, Garden City, NY, 1978. Poem by L. Schwartz; humorous, modern.
Madrigal
Year: 1976
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: a cappella. 1st Prize Composers Guild. Premiered Salt Lake City. Text 16th century anon. - contrapuntal texture. performed Hofstra Un., NY.
American Indian Song Suite (Cycle)
Year: 1976
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: 4 songs based on traditional Indian songs and texts. Commissioned by for U.S. Bicentennial. Numerous performances through USA; radio broadcasts. Rec CD Cambria Records disc & cassette.
Suite In Harpsichord Style
Year: 1975
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: 1st prize Composers, Authors & Artists of America; 1st prize NLAPW. 4 movements. Medium difficult; suitable for students and concerts. Numerous performances worldwide; also radio, tv. "...Sparkling...refreshing..." - Newsday."
Carol Of The Bells
Year: 1975
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: Text J. Singer. Premiered North Shore Singers. Also with organ - suitable for Christmas - church, schools, concerts.
For The Night Of Christmas
Year: 1974
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: Also version SSA, pn; a capella version 1st Prize NLAPW. Text B. Grebanier. Numerous performances USA. Christmas text, suitable high school, college, church, concerts.
Cycle Of Love (A Woman's Journey Through Love)
Year: 1974
Duration (in minutes): Woman'39;s
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: 4 songs. Poems by Anne Marx, Amy Lowell, Jeanne Singer, Madeline Mason: "Merging Song," "A Decade," "Lament," "All Beauty Brings You Close." Premiered Lincoln Center, I. Olson, sop. 1975. 1st prize Composers Authors & Artists of Am., 1976. "...beautiful melodic lines combined with finely wrought accompaniments."- Nordisk Tidende.
Remembrance
Year: 1973
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Larghetto expressive, romantic; medium difficult; suitable for students and concerts."
Prelude And Caprice
Year: 1973
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: 1st prize Composers, Authors & Artists of America. Caprice is fairly difficult; suitable for advanced students and concerts."
From The Green Mountains
Year: 1973
Duration (in minutes): 7'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, clarinet, piano, violin
Description: 1st prize CAAA; 1st prize NLAPW; 2 movements. Winter Identity; Yankee Springtime. performed throughout USA, Canada, Europe, South America, radio, tv. "deserves to become an American light classic." Boston review. Tape avail.
Rhapsody
Year: 1973
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, clarinet, piano, violin
Description: 1st prize NLAPW; romantic. performed Lincoln Center, elsewhere by the L.I. Trio. Tape avail.
Nocturne For Clarinet And Piano
Year: 1972
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet, piano
Description: 1st prize NLAPW. Numerous performances USA, Canada, Europe, South America, radio. Very lyrical but requires virtuosity. "...Beautiful melodic lines..." - Paris review. "...Richly colored harmonies..." - Buffalo News. Tape avail. COR PUBLISHING
L'envoi (Winter Identity)
Year: 1972
Duration (in minutes): L'39;envoi
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: piano
Description: Duet for solo voices. Premiered Douglaston, NY, 1973. 1st prize NLAPW. Poem by P. Benton. Numerous performances, NYC, South America.
Sonnet
Year: 1972
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, clarinet, mezzo soprano, soprano, violin
Description: Premiered Lincoln Center, I. Olson, sop. Sonnet by Patricia Benton. Philosophical, lyrical.
To Stir A Dream
Year: 1972
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any voice, any woodwind, clarinet, piano, soprano
Description: Premiered Lincoln Center, 1974, I. Olsen, sop. Poem by P. Benton; dramatic with romantic sweep. 1st prize 1989 Composers Guild International Competition. Rec CD disc & cassette, Cambria Records. Numerous performances in USA.
Selected Songs Of Jeanne Singer
Year: 1972
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: baritone voice
Publisher: Dragon's Teeth Press
Description: 11 songs various registers. Texts by contemporary Amer poets including Grebanier, Dale, Blankner, Benton, Jimenez (in Spanish), Lengyel, Schwartz, Mason, Singer. "Best Art Song" Award, NY Poetry Forum. Titles include: SANGUINARIA, DOWNING THE BELL TOWER, ARNO IS DEEP*, MEMORIA*, GIFT, DIRGE, WILD BIRDS*, INTELIGENCIA, HANNAH*, MEMENTO. * = recorded DC & cassette, Cambria Records.
Toccatina
Year: 1971
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Sounds very virtuosic, motoric; medium difficult; suitable for advanced students and concerts."
Etude
Year: 1971
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Presto repeated figuration; suitable for advanced students with small hands, also recitals; sounds showy. "
Baroque Frolic
Year: 1971
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Medium difficult; suitable for students and recitals. Numerous performances USA.
Sweet Stacy Suite
Year: 1969
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;50'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, clarinet, piano, violin
Description: 3 mvmnts: Sephardic Dance; Echoes From Spain; American Tune. Dance-like movements suggest folk music of 3 countries, honoring multi-national ancestry of granddaughter Stacy. Numerous perfs USA. Tuneful, tonal. Instant audience appeal. Medium difficult. Tape avail.
American Short Subjects
Year: 1961
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Premiered Un. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill."
She studied composition at Columbia University under Douglas Moore and others. She was a private piano pupil of Nadia Reisenberg for 15 years. A recipient of the Artist Diploma (gold medal) from the National Guild of Piano Teachers, she has concertized extensively. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Music from World University in 1984.
Style is tonal, melodic, neo-romantic. Scores of all works available.
To Be Brave Is All (Dedicated To Raoul Wallenberg)
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any high voice, any string, any voice, piano, violin
Description: Text by Madeline Mason. Premiered Chelsea Center for the Arts, L.I., NY, for Wallenberg commemorative concert, 1992. Intense, dramatic with contrasting lyrical sections. Requires strong solo voice and expert violinist. "...intensely moving..." - L.I. review. Tape avail.
Galina's Song
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): Galina'39;s
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Text by composer. Premiered by Florence Hechtel at Chelsea Center, L.I., 1992. Cabaret or theater style with Russian flavor. Not difficult. Suitable for students as well as concert. Tape avail.
Two In The Zoo
Year: 1991
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any male voice, any voice, any woodwind, clarinet, piano, soprano, tenor voice
Description: Poem by Madeline Mason. Premiered by the Musinger Players 1991 at Pen & Brush, NYC. Starts humorously but ends philosophically. For professionals.
Time Tells (3 Songs)
Year: 1991
Duration (in minutes): 7'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Three humorous songs on aging. Poems by Dorsha Hayes and Rhoda Bandler. Premiered 1991 L.I. Composers' Alliance, Chapin Theatre, Huntington, NY.
Lost Garden
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, cello, mezzo soprano, piano, tenor voice
Description: Premiered Port Washington, 1989, A. Miskell, ten. Text by C. Lengyel; philosophical, dramatic, lyric cello is featured equally with voice. 12 concert performances, NY 1989-90. Rec CD & Cassette, Cambria Records. "...Most emotionally powerful song I have heard in some time...- Women's News, Westchester. COR PUBLISHING
Query To The Creator
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Premiered Nassau County Fine Arts Festival, 1987, A. Miskell, ten. Poem by D. Hayes; dramatic and humorous. Numerous performances USA. Rec CD & cassette, Records.
Andante
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Medium difficult; suitable advanced students and concerts. performed by Lincoln Center, Long Island, Un. Wisconsin."
Wry Rimes (Cycle)
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, any woodwind, bassoon, clarinet, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice
Description: 5 short poems by C. Lengyel; humorous. Premiered Nassau County Fine Arts Cent, 1987, F. Hechtel, sop, J. DePalo, cl. Delius Award 1988. Perf. Delius Festival, Jacksonville, FL; numerous other performances. Requires virtuosity. Tapes avail for 2 versions. Ten, bn version recorded CD & cassette, Cambria Records.
Wry Rimes Cycle
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, any woodwind, bassoon, clarinet, mezzo soprano, soprano, tenor voice
Description: 5 short poems by C. Lengyel; humorous. Premiered Nassau County Fine Arts Cent, 1987, F. Hechtel, sop, J. DePalo, cl, Delius Award, 1988. performed Delius Festival, Jacksonville, FL; numerous other performances. Requires virtuosity. Tapes avail for 2 versions. Ten, bn version recorded CD & cassette, Cambria records.
Librarius (Cantata)
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 11'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: A cantata in praise of books. Text excerpts from Disraeli, Byron, Stoddard, J. Fitzgerald. Commissioned/Premiered Manhasset Public Library, 40th Anniversary. Other NY perf. 2nd Prize 1985 Composers & Songwriters Int.
Recollections Of City Island
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 11'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, oboe, piano, viola
Description: 1st prize CAAA 1986. Commissioned by L'Amore Di Musica Ensemble. Premiered Garden City, NY, 1985; 3 mvmnts. performed Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, radio. Contrasting scenic moods: Night Moorings; Church on the Corner; Nice Day on the Bay. Tape avail.
American Vision
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: 4 songs med/high voice. Lyrics J. Singer: "Find Your Own Way," "Ten Steps Ahead," "There is Darkness," "Hey, America!." Premiered F. Hechtel, sop, Int. Cong. IBA, New Orleans 1986. Am mus idioms: folk, gospel, etc. For professional soloist.
Follow, O Follow
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: piano, soprano, tenor voice
Description: Duet for solo voices. Commissioned by Austin Miskell. Premiered College of Sante Fe 1984. 1st prize CAAA 1986. Poem by Cornel Lengyel. Rec CD disc Cambria Records and cassette.
Songs From Later Years (Cycle)
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: 4 songs for high voice. 4 poems by Cornel Lengyel: "Harvest," "The Bargain," "Elegy," "Of Time Lost." Premiered Austin Miskell, Budapest, 1985. 1st Prize Composers & Song Writers International, 1985. Philosophical, varying moods. Rec CD & cassette, Cambria Records.
Ballad Of Changing Times
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: Light and humorous. Commissioned by Faerder Singers, Brooklyn NY. Premiered Norwegian Seamens Church, Brooklyn. Text by Composer.
Betrothal
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: baritone voice
Description: Text R. Bandler. Commissioned by National Society of Arts & Letters. Premiered National Arts Club, NYC, 1983, F. Hechtel, mez. Numerous performances USA. Lively Scottish dance-like flavor. Tape available.
I Would Sing Now
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Text C. H. Jacobs. Commissioned by National Society of Arts & Letters. Premiered National Arts Club, NYC, F. Hechtel, mez. Slow and introspective. Tape avail.
Old Wild Woman
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Commissioned by National Society of Arts & Letters. Premiered National Arts Club, NYC, 1983, F. Hechtel, sop. Poem by D. Hayes; dramatic and humorous. Numerous performances USA, Lincoln Center. Recorded CD & cassette, Cambria Records.
5 Galgenleider
Year: 1982
Duration (in minutes): 7'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: baritone voice, piano, soprano
Description: 5 songs. Commissioned by Florence Hechtel for Deutsches Haus, NYC. German poems by Christian Morgenstern; humorous. Premiered 1982. 1st prize Composers, Authors & Artists of America, 1986. performed Budapest, Hungary and Lincoln Center. "Music perfectly matching the poet's black humor..." - Boston review.
Reverie
Year: 1982
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Text D. Hayes. Premiered Nassau County Fine Arts Festival, 1983, M. Bismarck, sop. Romantic, very lyrical. performed NYC, Santa Fe, Budapest.
Mary's Boy
Year: 1981
Duration (in minutes): Mary'39;s
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: Commissioned by Anya Laurence. Premiered Toronto, Royal Academy Choir. Suitable for church as well as concert. Poem by James Harrison - lyrical version of the Passion. PLYMOUTH MUSIC
Four Songs Of Reverance (Cycle)
Year: 1981
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: baritone voice
Description: 4 songs: "Midnight," "Fiat," "For Justice," "Abode." 1st prize NLAPW, 1984; 1st prize Composers Guild, 1982. Poems have religious overtones, non-specific. Suitable church solos and concerts. Worldwide.
Go In Peace
Year: 1980
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: Grand Prize 1982 Composers Guild. Poem by Dorsha Hayes. Sombre, dramatic. performed Lincoln Center, Salt Lake City, Bogota, Columbia. College level chorus, concerts. Deals with death.
Grandmother's Attic
Year: 1980
Duration (in minutes): Grandmother'39;s
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument quartet, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, flute, oboe, violin
Description: Commissioned by L'Amore Di Musica Ensemble; 5 movements. Numerous performances USA, South America. Suggests American folk idioms. Medium difficult. Suitable for students as well as concerts. Tape avail. COR PUBLISHING
Come Greet The Spring
Year: 1979
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: 1st Prize Composers Guild 1979. Commissioned by North Shore Singers. Text by E. Boyd. Cheerful. Has soprano solo; lively piano part. Suitable High School, concerts. PLYMOUTH MUSIC
Choral Art Or Antics
Year: 1979
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: Text E. Boyd. Commissioned by North Shore Singers Chorale. Humorous.
American Indian Song Suite
Year: 1979
Duration (in minutes): 7'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: choral version; Premiered Bogota, Colombia, National Un. Choir, 1980. Based on Traditional Indian texts and songs. Perf. Lincoln Center, Hofstra University, elsewhere USA.
Suite For Horn And Harp
Year: 1979
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any brass, any string, harp, horn
Description: Commissioned by Arthur Goldstein, 1st prize CAAA, 1980; 4 movements. COR PUBLISHING
Salt Cathedral
Year: 1979
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any male voice, any string, any voice, piano, soprano, tenor voice, violin
Description: Commissioned by A. Miskell. Premiered Bogota, Colombia 1980. Mystical Text and mood. Other performances, NYC, Kansas Un., elsewhere USA.
Seaman's Wife
Year: 1978
Duration (in minutes): Seaman'39;s
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) a cappella
Description: a cappella single male voices (or men's chorus - see Choral list)
From Petrarch
Year: 1978
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any brass, any female voice, any high voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any voice, any woodwind, clarinet, horn, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, tenor voice
Description: Commissioned by Green House Poetry Mag. Premiered Boston 1978; J. Struss, mez, D. Hoose, hn. Ten and/or sop version avail from composer (Trans. by L. Schwartz). Features horn solos tragic, lyrical. Numerous performances worldwide. Ten, hn, pn version recorded CD & cassette, Cambria Records. "Hauntingly expressive..." - The Horn Call. COR PUBLISHING
Composer's Prayer
Year: 1977
Duration (in minutes): Composer'39;s
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: Premiered Salt Lake City 1980. Commissioned by Ora Pate Stewart. 1st Prize Composers, Authors & Artists of America. Text by O. Stewart; inspirational but not religious. FERNWOOD
Legend
Year: 1977
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any woodwind, flute, piano
Description: Commissioned by Donnell Walden. performed Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, radio. Modal, melodic. For advanced performers. Medium difficult. COR PUBLISHING
Caprice
Year: 1977
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano
Instruments: any string, harp, harpsichord
Description: Fairly difficult; rapid continuous left hand.
Banquet
Year: 1977
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments
Instruments: any brass, any female voice, any high voice, any string, any voice, cello, horn, soprano
Publisher: Cor Publishing Co.
Description: Commissioned/Premiered E. Palmedo, soprano, Garden City, NY, 1978. Poem by L. Schwartz; humorous, modern.
Madrigal
Year: 1976
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: a cappella. 1st Prize Composers Guild. Premiered Salt Lake City. Text 16th century anon. - contrapuntal texture. performed Hofstra Un., NY.
American Indian Song Suite (Cycle)
Year: 1976
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: 4 songs based on traditional Indian songs and texts. Commissioned by for U.S. Bicentennial. Numerous performances through USA; radio broadcasts. Rec CD Cambria Records disc & cassette.
Suite In Harpsichord Style
Year: 1975
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: 1st prize Composers, Authors & Artists of America; 1st prize NLAPW. 4 movements. Medium difficult; suitable for students and concerts. Numerous performances worldwide; also radio, tv. "...Sparkling...refreshing..." - Newsday."
Carol Of The Bells
Year: 1975
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: Text J. Singer. Premiered North Shore Singers. Also with organ - suitable for Christmas - church, schools, concerts.
For The Night Of Christmas
Year: 1974
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;30'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: Also version SSA, pn; a capella version 1st Prize NLAPW. Text B. Grebanier. Numerous performances USA. Christmas text, suitable high school, college, church, concerts.
Cycle Of Love (A Woman's Journey Through Love)
Year: 1974
Duration (in minutes): Woman'39;s
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: 4 songs. Poems by Anne Marx, Amy Lowell, Jeanne Singer, Madeline Mason: "Merging Song," "A Decade," "Lament," "All Beauty Brings You Close." Premiered Lincoln Center, I. Olson, sop. 1975. 1st prize Composers Authors & Artists of Am., 1976. "...beautiful melodic lines combined with finely wrought accompaniments."- Nordisk Tidende.
Remembrance
Year: 1973
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Larghetto expressive, romantic; medium difficult; suitable for students and concerts."
Prelude And Caprice
Year: 1973
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: 1st prize Composers, Authors & Artists of America. Caprice is fairly difficult; suitable for advanced students and concerts."
From The Green Mountains
Year: 1973
Duration (in minutes): 7'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, clarinet, piano, violin
Description: 1st prize CAAA; 1st prize NLAPW; 2 movements. Winter Identity; Yankee Springtime. performed throughout USA, Canada, Europe, South America, radio, tv. "deserves to become an American light classic." Boston review. Tape avail.
Rhapsody
Year: 1973
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, clarinet, piano, violin
Description: 1st prize NLAPW; romantic. performed Lincoln Center, elsewhere by the L.I. Trio. Tape avail.
Nocturne For Clarinet And Piano
Year: 1972
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet, piano
Description: 1st prize NLAPW. Numerous performances USA, Canada, Europe, South America, radio. Very lyrical but requires virtuosity. "...Beautiful melodic lines..." - Paris review. "...Richly colored harmonies..." - Buffalo News. Tape avail. COR PUBLISHING
L'envoi (Winter Identity)
Year: 1972
Duration (in minutes): L'39;envoi
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: piano
Description: Duet for solo voices. Premiered Douglaston, NY, 1973. 1st prize NLAPW. Poem by P. Benton. Numerous performances, NYC, South America.
Sonnet
Year: 1972
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, clarinet, mezzo soprano, soprano, violin
Description: Premiered Lincoln Center, I. Olson, sop. Sonnet by Patricia Benton. Philosophical, lyrical.
To Stir A Dream
Year: 1972
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any voice, any woodwind, clarinet, piano, soprano
Description: Premiered Lincoln Center, 1974, I. Olsen, sop. Poem by P. Benton; dramatic with romantic sweep. 1st prize 1989 Composers Guild International Competition. Rec CD disc & cassette, Cambria Records. Numerous performances in USA.
Selected Songs Of Jeanne Singer
Year: 1972
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: baritone voice
Publisher: Dragon's Teeth Press
Description: 11 songs various registers. Texts by contemporary Amer poets including Grebanier, Dale, Blankner, Benton, Jimenez (in Spanish), Lengyel, Schwartz, Mason, Singer. "Best Art Song" Award, NY Poetry Forum. Titles include: SANGUINARIA, DOWNING THE BELL TOWER, ARNO IS DEEP*, MEMORIA*, GIFT, DIRGE, WILD BIRDS*, INTELIGENCIA, HANNAH*, MEMENTO. * = recorded DC & cassette, Cambria Records.
Toccatina
Year: 1971
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Sounds very virtuosic, motoric; medium difficult; suitable for advanced students and concerts."
Etude
Year: 1971
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Presto repeated figuration; suitable for advanced students with small hands, also recitals; sounds showy. "
Baroque Frolic
Year: 1971
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Medium difficult; suitable for students and recitals. Numerous performances USA.
Sweet Stacy Suite
Year: 1969
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;50'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, clarinet, piano, violin
Description: 3 mvmnts: Sephardic Dance; Echoes From Spain; American Tune. Dance-like movements suggest folk music of 3 countries, honoring multi-national ancestry of granddaughter Stacy. Numerous perfs USA. Tuneful, tonal. Instant audience appeal. Medium difficult. Tape avail.
American Short Subjects
Year: 1961
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Premiered Un. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill."
