Joyce Hope Suskind (1928-2017)
Joyce Hope Suskind (1928-2017)
Please contact the American Composers Alliance for information about Joyce Hope Suskind's catalog of music.
Joyce Hope Suskind has enjoyed a varied career as composer, performer, and teacher in New York, her native city. After entering the Juilliard School on an oboe scholarship, she transferred her major to the study of voice. She is a self-taught composer. Her composing career grew out of her work as improvisational pianist for the Martha Graham School. She was commissioned by Lehman College to compose a score for Balinese dance, using gamelons and other instruments. She became a song composer, published by Hildegard, and American Composers Alliance.
Meditations on War And Peace
Year: 2008
Duration (in minutes): 20 minutes
Difficulty: High (professional)
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: This suite of five songs is written to the lyrics of three poets,
William Butler Yeats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Morgan Alexander.
Each song contains lyric and musical elements representing both war and peace.The Second Coming, by Yeats, one of the most famous poems in the English language,inspired the final song."And what rough beast...slouches toward Bethlehem to be born","is set to a...march-like rhythm which, paradoxically moves into the realm of great art by being uplifting rather than depressing or alarming." New Music Connoisseur Barry L. Cohen
He Hears The Cry Of The Sedge
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: A poem by William Butler Yeats.
Hurrahing In Harvest
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;54'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: A poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Peace
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;41'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: A poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Why Should The Heart Take Fright?
Year: 1996
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;42'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: A poem by William Butler Yeats.
Poet To His Beloved
Year: 1995
Duration (in minutes): 1'39;25'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: A poem by William Butler Yeats.
Wild Swans At Coole
Year: 1993
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;20'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Instruments: soprano, tenor voice
Description: In medium key.
Men Improve With The Years
Year: 1993
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;34'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by William Butler Yeats.
To An Isle In The Water
Year: 1993
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;47'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: A poem by William Butler Yeats.
Wild Swans At Coole, The
Year: 1993
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;20'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Casia Publishing Co.
Description: This song is published in print album "Six Songs To Poetry Of Yeats." Album also available on CD. Also available with orchestral accompinament in medium key. Sheet music also printed in medium key.
What Can the Shadow-Like Generations
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;48'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: baritone voice, soprano, tenor voice
Description: Poem by William Butler Yeats. From Oedipus Rex.
Drinking Song
Year: 1992
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: A poem by William Butler Yeats.
Brown Penny
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 1'39;48'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by William Butler Yeats.
Three Things
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;35'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by William Butler Yeats.
What Can The Shadow-Like Generations Of Man Attain?
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;48'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by William Butler Yeats. Also available for voice and orchestra.
Woman To Her Lover
Year: 1990
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;40'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by Christina Walsh.
Song Of Wandering Aengus
Year: 1990
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;41'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Casia Publishing Co.
Description: This song is published in print album "Six Songs To Poetry Of Yeats." Album also available on CD.
After Long Silence
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Casia Publishing Co.
Description: This song is published in print album "Six Songs To Poetry Of Yeats." Album also available on CD.
Mad As The Mist And Snow
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 1'39;50'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Casia Publishing Co.
Description: This song is published in print album "Six Songs To Poetry Of Yeats." Album also available on CD.
Those Dancing Days Are Gone
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;43'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Casia Publishing Co.
Description: This song is published in print album "Six Songs To Poetry Of Yeats." Album also available on CD.
When You Are Old
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by William Butler Yeats.
From A Railway Carriage
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 1'39;14'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Swing
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson.
My Shadow
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;27'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 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 voice, any woodwind, flute, piano, soprano, tenor voice
Description: Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson.
My Bed Is A Boat
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;21'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Requiem
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;17'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: any string, cello, contrabass, harp, percussion, viola, violin
Description: Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Lake Isle Of Innisfree
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;29'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Casia Publishing Co.
Description: This song is published in print album "Six Songs To Poetry Of Yeats." Album also available on CD.
Where Go The Boats?
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 1'39;39'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Music I Heard
Year: 1982
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;41'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by Conrad Aikin.
Memory Tree
Year: 1974
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;7'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: A poem by Anne Tallon.
Where Is The Child?
Year: 1974
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;7'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by Anne Tallon.
Prairie Shoes
Year: 1973
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;42'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 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, clarinet, mezzo soprano, oboe, piano, soprano, tenor voice
Description: Poem by Judith Alexander.
Sororite
Year: 1972
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;20'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Words and music by Joyce Hope Suskind. Feminist anthem.
I Wander In Lonely Playgrounds
Year: 1972
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;55'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 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, clarinet, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, tenor voice
Description: ten, ob, pn. Poem by Judith Alexander.
I Made This World, Johnny
Year: 1966
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;53'34;
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 medium voice, any string, any voice, guitar, piano
Description: Poem by Eric Blau.
Hermandad 4'20",
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;20'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: Feminist anthem. Lyric is translation of "Sororite." Music is different.
Settings Of Poems By William Butler Yeats
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Long Silence; Prayer for Old Age; Brown Penny; Drinking Song; Her Anxiety; Mad As Mist and Snow; Men Improve With Years; Four Ages of Man; Dancing Days Gone; Lake Isle of Inisfree; Pity of Love; Song of Wandering Aengus; Wild Swans at Coole; Three Things; Isle in Water; Shadow Like Generations; When You Are Old. NY Times (1993): "Strongest presence was Joyce Hope Suskind." Separate scores for each song; not in book form. Songs are also listed individually.
Settings Of Poetry Of Robert Louis Stevenson
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: From A Railway Carriage; My Bed is a Boat; My Shadow (flute not piano); Requiem; The Swing; Where Go the Boats? Songs are also listed individually. Separate scores for each song; not in book form.
Songs by Women
Performed by Susan Gonzalez, soprano, and Marcia Eckert, pianist. Includes Six Songs to Poetry of Yeats by Joyce Hope Suskind, Frühe Lieder by Ruth Schonthal, Five Songs for Soprano and Piano by Elisenda Fábregas, and A Birthday Bouquet by Elizabeth R. Austin.
Composers: Joyce Hope Suskind, Ruth Schonthal, Elisenda Fábregas, Elizabeth R. Austin.
Label: Leonarda Productions, Inc.
Product ID: LE-352
Joyce Hope Suskind has enjoyed a varied career as composer, performer, and teacher in New York, her native city. After entering the Juilliard School on an oboe scholarship, she transferred her major to the study of voice. She is a self-taught composer. Her composing career grew out of her work as improvisational pianist for the Martha Graham School. She was commissioned by Lehman College to compose a score for Balinese dance, using gamelons and other instruments. She became a song composer, published by Hildegard, and American Composers Alliance.
Meditations on War And Peace
Year: 2008
Duration (in minutes): 20 minutes
Difficulty: High (professional)
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: This suite of five songs is written to the lyrics of three poets,
William Butler Yeats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Morgan Alexander.
Each song contains lyric and musical elements representing both war and peace.The Second Coming, by Yeats, one of the most famous poems in the English language,inspired the final song."And what rough beast...slouches toward Bethlehem to be born","is set to a...march-like rhythm which, paradoxically moves into the realm of great art by being uplifting rather than depressing or alarming." New Music Connoisseur Barry L. Cohen
He Hears The Cry Of The Sedge
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: A poem by William Butler Yeats.
Hurrahing In Harvest
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;54'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: A poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Peace
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;41'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: A poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Why Should The Heart Take Fright?
Year: 1996
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;42'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: A poem by William Butler Yeats.
Poet To His Beloved
Year: 1995
Duration (in minutes): 1'39;25'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: A poem by William Butler Yeats.
Wild Swans At Coole
Year: 1993
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;20'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Instruments: soprano, tenor voice
Description: In medium key.
Men Improve With The Years
Year: 1993
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;34'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by William Butler Yeats.
To An Isle In The Water
Year: 1993
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;47'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: A poem by William Butler Yeats.
Wild Swans At Coole, The
Year: 1993
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;20'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Casia Publishing Co.
Description: This song is published in print album "Six Songs To Poetry Of Yeats." Album also available on CD. Also available with orchestral accompinament in medium key. Sheet music also printed in medium key.
What Can the Shadow-Like Generations
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;48'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: baritone voice, soprano, tenor voice
Description: Poem by William Butler Yeats. From Oedipus Rex.
Drinking Song
Year: 1992
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: A poem by William Butler Yeats.
Brown Penny
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 1'39;48'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by William Butler Yeats.
Three Things
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;35'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by William Butler Yeats.
What Can The Shadow-Like Generations Of Man Attain?
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;48'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by William Butler Yeats. Also available for voice and orchestra.
Woman To Her Lover
Year: 1990
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;40'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by Christina Walsh.
Song Of Wandering Aengus
Year: 1990
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;41'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Casia Publishing Co.
Description: This song is published in print album "Six Songs To Poetry Of Yeats." Album also available on CD.
After Long Silence
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Casia Publishing Co.
Description: This song is published in print album "Six Songs To Poetry Of Yeats." Album also available on CD.
Mad As The Mist And Snow
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 1'39;50'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Casia Publishing Co.
Description: This song is published in print album "Six Songs To Poetry Of Yeats." Album also available on CD.
Those Dancing Days Are Gone
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;43'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Casia Publishing Co.
Description: This song is published in print album "Six Songs To Poetry Of Yeats." Album also available on CD.
When You Are Old
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by William Butler Yeats.
From A Railway Carriage
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 1'39;14'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Swing
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson.
My Shadow
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;27'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 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 voice, any woodwind, flute, piano, soprano, tenor voice
Description: Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson.
My Bed Is A Boat
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;21'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Requiem
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;17'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: any string, cello, contrabass, harp, percussion, viola, violin
Description: Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Lake Isle Of Innisfree
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;29'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Casia Publishing Co.
Description: This song is published in print album "Six Songs To Poetry Of Yeats." Album also available on CD.
Where Go The Boats?
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 1'39;39'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Music I Heard
Year: 1982
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;41'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by Conrad Aikin.
Memory Tree
Year: 1974
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;7'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: A poem by Anne Tallon.
Where Is The Child?
Year: 1974
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;7'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by Anne Tallon.
Prairie Shoes
Year: 1973
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;42'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 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, clarinet, mezzo soprano, oboe, piano, soprano, tenor voice
Description: Poem by Judith Alexander.
Sororite
Year: 1972
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;20'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Words and music by Joyce Hope Suskind. Feminist anthem.
I Wander In Lonely Playgrounds
Year: 1972
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;55'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 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, clarinet, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, tenor voice
Description: ten, ob, pn. Poem by Judith Alexander.
I Made This World, Johnny
Year: 1966
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;53'34;
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 medium voice, any string, any voice, guitar, piano
Description: Poem by Eric Blau.
Hermandad 4'20",
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;20'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Description: Feminist anthem. Lyric is translation of "Sororite." Music is different.
Settings Of Poems By William Butler Yeats
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Long Silence; Prayer for Old Age; Brown Penny; Drinking Song; Her Anxiety; Mad As Mist and Snow; Men Improve With Years; Four Ages of Man; Dancing Days Gone; Lake Isle of Inisfree; Pity of Love; Song of Wandering Aengus; Wild Swans at Coole; Three Things; Isle in Water; Shadow Like Generations; When You Are Old. NY Times (1993): "Strongest presence was Joyce Hope Suskind." Separate scores for each song; not in book form. Songs are also listed individually.
Settings Of Poetry Of Robert Louis Stevenson
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: From A Railway Carriage; My Bed is a Boat; My Shadow (flute not piano); Requiem; The Swing; Where Go the Boats? Songs are also listed individually. Separate scores for each song; not in book form.
Songs by Women
Performed by Susan Gonzalez, soprano, and Marcia Eckert, pianist. Includes Six Songs to Poetry of Yeats by Joyce Hope Suskind, Frühe Lieder by Ruth Schonthal, Five Songs for Soprano and Piano by Elisenda Fábregas, and A Birthday Bouquet by Elizabeth R. Austin.
Composers: Joyce Hope Suskind, Ruth Schonthal, Elisenda Fábregas, Elizabeth R. Austin.
Label: Leonarda Productions, Inc.
Product ID: LE-352
