Tenor Songs

 

Birthday Bouquet for tenor, viola and piano (R. Michael Daugherty)

  1. Which is more important, the sentiment or the flowers? – 2’20”
  2. The flowers have much to recommend them – 4’00”
  3. The flowers cannot say these things – 3’45”
  4.  The celebration of your life– 1’45”

The late Jim Croom led a varied life as opera star, Visiting Artist for the Jacksonville, NC, area, and finally as the “Singing Priest” of the Episcopal Church.  His wonderful voice is heard in Birthday Bouquet and Tender Metamorphoses

 

Men in Love for tenor and piano [also orchestrated for baritone] (various poets)

  1. O Mistress Mine – 2’30” (William Shakespeare)
  2. Go, Lovely Rose – 4’05” (Edmund Waller)
  3. The Passionate Shepherd – 2’40” (Christopher Marlowe)
  4. Venetian Air – 2’20” (Thomas Moore)
  5. My Love in her Attire – 1’40” (anonymous)
  6. Sleep On – 3’10” (Samuel Rogers)
  7. Send me some token – 3’35” (John Donne)
  8. Since there’s no hope – 2’40” (Michael Drayton)
  9. Jenny Kissed Me – 2’35” (Leigh Hunt)
  10. Gather Ye Rosebuds – 2’50” (Robert Herrick)

This recording came from my 60th Birthday Party.  I’m afraid my sixty-year-old voice hardly does the songs justice.

 

Tender Metamorphoses for tenor and piano (R. Michael Daugherty)

  1. On failing Saturdays – 3’30”
  2. She passed this way – 3’00”
  3. To think I saw her Sunday – 3’20”
  4. I could not dream – 2’30”

 

A Wagtail Dance for soprano or tenor and piano (Emily Dickinson)

  1. Bee! I’m expecting you – 1’15”
  2. The Pedigree of Honey – 1’05”
  3. A Single Clover Plank – 1’55”
  4. A Bee his Burnished Carriage – 1’30”
  5. Of Silken Speech and Specious Shoe – 1’30”
  6. Bees are Black – 1’30”
  7. We – Bee and I – 2’05”
  8. To Make a Prairie – 50”

Darrell Lauer gave this performance of A Wagtail Dance with pianist Thomas Turner