Boom Times for the Art Song: A HyperHistory of Poetry and Music
The Metropolitan Museum of Art 21st Century Song Commissions
Tenor Robert White organized and sang a program of 19 new songs on Saturday, November 17, 2001 at Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Brian Zeger played the piano, as did several of the composers.
- Jazz at the Intergalactic Nightclub
- Libby Larsen/Thomas McGrath
- Nude at the Piano
- John Musto/Mark Campbell
- Irreverent Heart
- John Corigliano/E.Y. Harburg
- A Crowd of Stars
- Paul Moravec/W.B. Yeats
- A Lifetime or So
- Milton Babbitt/Richard Koch and Milton Babbitt
- If You Hear her Snore
- Dick Hyman/Gertrude Stein
- What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
- David Del Tredici/Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Sonnet: Life’s Arc
- Lukas Foss/Christopher Foss
- The Lake Isle Innisfree
- Ben Moore/W.B. Yeats
- September 1, 1939
- William Bolcom/W.H. Auden
- The Gate of the Year
- Stephen Hough/Letter read by King George VI in 1939
- On the Beach at Night
- Lowell Liebermann/Walt Whitman
- Astyanax
- George Tsontakis/George Seferis, translated by the composer
- The Old Man’s Song
- Gian Carlo Menotti/Gian Carlo Menotti
- How Pleasant it is to Have Money
- Richard Hundley/Arthur Hugh Clough with added words by the composer
- He Will Not Hear
- Ned Rorem/William Jay Smith
- Ghost Letter
- Daron Hagen/Richard McGrath
- A Spanish Love Song
- Tobias Picker/Pablo Neruda
- The Invincible Upright
- Thomas Z. Shepard/Sheldon Harnick