Words and music are inextricably linked for Ned Rorem. Time Magazine has called him the world's best composer of art songs." A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music this volume presents a collection of 14 songs on different American poets for voice and piano. Contents:
- As Adam Early in the Morning (Walt Whitman)
- Early in the Morning (Robert Hillyer)
- I am Rose (Gertrude Stein)
- Memory (Theodore Roethke)
- My Papa's Waltz (Theodore Roethke)
- Night Crow (Theodore Roethke)
- O You Whom I Often and Silently Come (Walt Whitman)
- Root Cellar (Theodore Roethke)
- Sally's Smile (Paul Goodman)
- See How They Love Me (Howard Moss)
- Snake (Theodore Roethke)
- Such Beauty As Hurts to Behold (Paul Goodman)
- The Waking (Theodore Roethke)
- Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night (Walt Whitman)
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