Songs of Our Time
14 songs set to poems by contemporary poets
Texts by Frank O’Hara, X. J. Kennedy, Stanley Kunitz, Paul Celan, James Schuyler, Howard Moss, John Ashbery, W. S. Merwin, Langston Hughes, Kathleen Raine, Audra McDonald, Sylvia Plath, Gwendolyn Brooks, & Jean Valentine
Published by Carl Fischer Music
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Virginia Woolf
Friend
Little Horse
Spell against Sorrow
The Light Comes on by Itself
Pont Mirabeau
A Poem of Unrest
This Room
If You Can
Aspen Tree
Three Floors
The Crazy Woman
Child
Dreams / Feet o’ Jesus
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These are corrections to the edition published by Carl Fischer LLC
“Pont Mirabeau”
Page 35, Bar 72, L.H. there should be accents under the last two G flats.
Bar 73, L.H. there should be accents under the last two G flats.
“If You Can”
Pg-56, Bars 80 and 81, The last F (16th note) in the vocal line of bar 80, should tie to the first eighth note F in bar 81 which is NOT F flat, just F natural and tied from the bar before…and “moon” should be under the Bb.
“Child”
Pg-29, Bar 43, the E octave in the L.H. in should be 8vb.