John Harbison
1938 -The vocal works of John Harbison include operas (such as A Winter's Tale and Full Moon in March) and song cycles. His opera The Great Gatsby was written for the Metropolitan Opera to celebrate James Levine's 25th year with the company. Of significant importance and beauty is his cycle Mottetti di Montale of 1980, which is "an engagement with Eugenio Montale’s love poems that recalls the Müller cycles of Schubert." (David St George, New Grove Dictionary)
Photo: John Harbison, G. Schirmer website, Katrin Talbot (Madison, WI)
Kyle Ferrill, baritone and Jennifer Snyder, piano, performed Harbison's "The Flute of Interior Time" at SongFest 2006. The YouTube video of that performance, provided in the media player to the right, is made possible through a collaboration between the Hampsong Foundation and SongFest.
- After Hours - Song Collection
- Between Two Worlds - Song Collection
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- Robert Bly
- Elegiac Songs - Song Collection
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- Emily Dickinson
- Flashes and Illuminations - Song Collection
- The Flute of Interior Time
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- Robert Bly
- God Only Knows
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- Dana Gioia
- Milosz songs: for Voice and Piano - Song Collection
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- Czeslaw Milosz
- The Natural World - Song Collection
- North and South - Song Collection
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- Elizabeth Bishop
- The Rewaking - Song Collection
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- William Carlos Williams
- The Right to Pleasure - Song Collection
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- Louise Glück
- The Seven Ages - Song Collection
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- Louise Glück
- Simple Daylight - Song Collection
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- Michael Fried
- Stand By Your Grievance
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- Louise Glück
- Three Harp Songs - Song Collection
- Vocalism
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- Walt Whitman
- Words From Paterson - Song Collection
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- William Carlos Williams
