John Newell - Vocal Works
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| Work |
Approximate Timing |
Catalog Number |
The
Passionate Shepherd to His Love (2002)
Tenor (or
soprano), piano
Text: Christopher Marlowe
A simple setting of this
great love poem in a somewhat modernized Elizabethan
"lute song" style. |
3:00 |
V0602 |
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Four Sacred Songs
(1995)
Voice, piano
- I lift up mine eyes
- The Lord is my shepherd
- Sing oh my soul
- I thank thee God
Texts: I - III from
various psalms; IV by John Newell
Available for high
and medium voice. |
10:00 |
V0495 |
"With the composer at the piano, Novak did
full justice to the sinuous vocal lines that flowed
gently with just a hint of near-eastern inflection."
- Berkshire Record (Gt. Barrington,
MA) |
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Poems For Loving
(1982)
Baritone, clarinet in A
Texts: Lyn Horton |
5:00 |
V0382 |
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Audible (1979)
Soprano,
percussion solo
Texts: Lyn Horton |
10:00 |
V0279 |
"...a motionless beauty...as delicate and as
pretty a piece for voice and percussion as I can
imagine."
- The Reader (Chicago) |
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Sonnet (1977)
Speaker, piano
Text: A spoken melodrama derived from various sonnets
of William Shakespeare, dealing with the themes of love,
death, and memory. |
8:00 |
V0177 |
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