John Musto
1954 -John Musto is well-established as a composer of concert song and opera.
Photo Credit: www.johnmusto.com
The audio recordings of John Musto's songs, provided in the audio playlist to the right, are made possible through a collaboration between the Hampsong Foundation and SongFest. The performers of "The Hangman at Home" are Heather Reithmeier and Matthew Brower, and the performers of "Nude at the Piano" are Keith Colclough, bass-baritone, and Sungha Lee, piano. The performances took place on June 19, 2010 at Pepperdine University.
Songs & Song Collections BY Musto
(entered to date)
- Angels Have I None/The Phoenix Prayer
- Text:
- Katherine Mosby
- The Book of Uncommon Prayer - Song Collection
- Calypso
- Text:
- W. H. Auden
- Chorale: Breathe on the Living
- Text:
- Kenneth Patchen
- Christmas Carol (To Jesus on His Birthday)
- Text:
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Confitébor/Bleach my bones
- Text:
- Katherine Mosby
- Could Be (in Shadow of the Blues)
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Crystal Palace Market (in Viva Sweet Love)
- Text:
- James Laughlin
- Dove Sta Amore (in Dove Sta Amore)
- Text:
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Dove Sta Amore - Song Collection
- Enough Rope - Song Collection
- Text:
- Dorothy Parker
- For I Have Come So Long
- Text:
- Katherine Mosby
- The Hangman at Home (in Dove Sta Amore)
- Text:
- Carl Sandburg
- Help Me to Laugh
- Text:
- Katherine Mosby
- How Many Little Children Sleep (in Dove Sta Amore)
- Text:
- James Agee
- I Stop Writing the Poem
- Text:
- Tess Gallagher
- Intermezzo
- Island (in Shadow of the Blues)
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Keep Watch
- Text:
- Traditional
- Let Sing the Bedsprings
- Text:
- Katherine Mosby
- Litany (in Shadow of the Blues)
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Lullaby
- Text:
- Léonie Adams
- Maybe (in Dove Sta Amore)
- Text:
- Carl Sandburg
- Nude at the Piano
- Text:
- Mark Campbell
- Old Photograph
- Text:
- Archibald MacLeish
- Palm Sunday: Naples
- Text:
- Arthur Symons
- Quiet Song
- Text:
- Eugene O'Neill
- Quiet Songs - Song Collection
- Rome: In the Café (in Viva Sweet Love)
- Text:
- James Laughlin
- San Jose Symphony Reception (Flagrante delicto)
- Text:
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Sea Chest (in Dove Sta Amore)
- Text:
- Carl Sandburg
- Shadow of the Blues - Song Collection
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Silhouette (in Shadow of the Blues)
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Some Last Words
- Text:
- Mark Strand
- Teach Me the Beauty
- Text:
- Katherine Mosby
- The Two Priests & Music and Drum
- Text:
- Archibald MacLeish
- Viva Sweet Love - Song Collection
- Words To Be Spoken
- Text:
- Archibald MacLeish
- You Came as a Thought (in Viva Sweet Love)
- Text:
- James Laughlin
- as is the sea marvelous (in Viva Sweet Love)
- Text:
- E. E. Cummings
- maggie and milly and molly and may
- Text:
- E. E. Cummings
- sweet spring (in Viva Sweet Love)
- Text:
- E. E. Cummings
