Soprano

• A Wanderer's Songfor soprano & piano

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  A Wanderer's Song

  Text by John Masefield

  A WIND'S in the heart of me, a fire's in my heels,
  I am tired of brick and stone and rumbling wagon-wheels;
  I hunger for the sea's edge, the limit of the land,
  Where the wild old Atlantic is shouting on the sand.

  Oh I'll be going, leaving the noises of the street,
  To where a lifting foresail-foot is yanking at the sheet;
  To a windy, tossing anchorage where yawls and ketches ride,
  Oh I'll be going, going, until I meet the tide.

  And first I'll hear the sea-wind, the mewing of the gulls,
  The clucking, sucking of the sea about the rusty hulls,
  The songs at the capstan at the hooker warping out,
  And then the heart of me'll know I'm there or thereabout.

  Oh I am sick of brick and stone, the heart of me is sick,
  For windy green, unquiet sea, the realm of Moby Dick;
  And I'll be going, going, from the roaring of the wheels,
  For a wind's in the heart of me, a fire's in my heels.

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  Michele Byrd, soprano
  Brice Gerlach, piano

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• Walk Slowlyfor soprano & piano

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  Walk Slowly

  Text by Adelaide Love

  If you should go before me, dear, walk slowly
  Down the ways of death, well-worn and wide,
  For I would want to overtake you quickly
  And seek the journey’s ending by your side.

  I would be so forlorn not to descry you
  Down some shining highroad when I came;
  Walk slowly, dear, and often look behind you
  And pause to hear if someone calls your name.

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  Brice Gerlach, piano

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• Tune for an Ill-tempered Clavichordfor soprano & piano

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  Tune for an Ill-tempered Clavichord

  Text by Ogden Nash

  Oh, once there lived in Kankakee
  A handy dandy Yankakee,
  A lone and lean and lankakee
  Cantankakerous Yankakee.
  He slept without a blankaket,
  This rough and ready Yankakee,
  The bachelor of Kankakee.
  He never used a hankakee,
  He jeered at hanky-pankakee;
  Indeed, to give a frank account,
  He didn't have a bank account.
  And yet at times he hankakered
  In marriage to be anchachored.
  When celibacy rankakles,
  One dreams of pretty ankakles.
  He took a trip to Waikiki
  And wooed a girl named Psycheche,
  And now this rugged Yankakee
  'S a married man in Kankakee.
  Good night, dear friends, and thankakee.

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  Michele Byrd, soprano
  Richard Bosworth, piano

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