For voice and piano; 5th song cycle originally for mezzo-soprano and orchestra. "The articles in this collection are excerpted ... from: Catalogue raisonné as memoir : a composer's life, by Dominick Argento." Includes biographical note on the composer (p. ii-iii), composer's pref. (p. vi-vii), and composer's comments preceding each song cycle.
Contents:
Songs about spring. Who knows if the moon's a balloon ; Spring is like a perhaps hand ; In just-spring ; In spring comes ; When faces called flowers float out of the ground -- Six Elizabethan songs. Spring ; Sleep ; Winter ; Dirge ; Diaphenia ; Hymn -- From the diary of Virginia Woolf. The diary ; Anxiety ; Fancy ; Hardy's funeral ; Rome ; War ; Parents ; Last entry -- The Andrée expedition. Part one: In the air: Prologue ; The balloon rises ; Pride and ambition ; Dinner aloft ; The unforeseen problem ; The flight aborted ; Part two: On the ice: Mishap with a sledge ; The king's jubilee ; Illness and drugs ; Hallucinations ; Anna's birthday ; Epilogue ; Final words -- Casa Guidi. Casa Guidi ; The Italian cook and the English maid ; Robert Browning ; The death of Mr. Barrett ; Domesticity -- Miss Manners on music. Prologue ; Manners at a concert ; Manners at the ballet ; Manners for contemporary music ; Manners at a church recital ; Manners at the opera ; Envoi.
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