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Buy the sheetmusic! Apparition
Elegiac Songs and Vocalises on texts from Walt Whitman's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

year 1979

instrumentation Soprano and amplified piano

première First performed by Jan DeGaetani (mezzo-soprano) and Gilbert Kalish (piano) in New York City - 13 January 1981

publisher C.F. Peters (P66832)

recordings

movements
  1. The Night in Silence under Many a Star
    Vocalise 1: Summer Sounds
  2. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
  3. Dark Mother Always Gliding Near with Soft Feet
    Vocalise 2: Invocation
  4. Approach Strong Deliveress!
    Vocalise 3: Death Carol ("Song of the Nightbird")
  5. Come Lovely and Soothing Death
  6. The Night in Silence under Many a Star

# programme notes #

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