| Other author/creator | Kalish, Gilbert, performer. |
| Included Work | Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864. Beautiful child of song. |
| Included Work | Carter, Elliott, 1908-2012. Poems of Robert Frost. |
| Included Work | Cadman, Charles Wakefield, 1881-1946. American Indian songs. Moon drops low. |
| Included Work | Seeger, Ruth Crawford, 1901-1953. Songs (1929) |
| Included Work | Babbitt, Milton, 1916-2011. Widow's lament in springtime. |
| Included Work | Benson, Warren, 1924-2005. Solitary songs. American primitive. |
| Included Work | Crumb, George. Sleeper. |
| Included Work | Fine, Irving, 1914-1962. Mutability. My father. |
| Included Work | Jacobs-Bond, Carrie, 1862-1946. Nothin' but love. |
| Included Work | Jacobs-Bond, Carrie, 1862-1946. Songs as unpretentious as the wild rose (1901). I love you truly. |
| Included Work | Jacobs-Bond, Carrie, 1862-1946. Small songs as unpretentious as the wild rose. Her greatest charm. |
| Included Work | Kagen, Sergius Junk man. |
| Included Work | Davidovsky, Mario, 1934-2019 Lost. |
| Included Work | Cage, John. Songs (1938). Little four paws. |
| Included Work | Schuman, William, 1910-1992. Time to the old. Dozing on the lawn. |
| Included Work | Ives, Charles, 1874-1954 She is not fair to outward view. |
| Included Work | Ives, Charles, 1874-1954 All-enduring. |
| Included Work | Clarke, Rebecca, 1886-1979 Lethe. |
| Included Work | Rorem, Ned, 1923-2022. Poems of love and the rain. Interlude |
| Included Work | Adler, Samuel, 1928- Time, you old gypsy man. |
| Included Work | Walden, Stanley. Three ladies. Grandma. |
| Included Work | Kernis, Aaron Jay. Stein times seven. No. 6. |
| Included Work | Bolcom, William. Cabaret songs (1978). Waitin. |
| Included Work | Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990. Poems of Emily Dickinson. There came a wind like a bugle. |
| Included Work | Ives, Charles, 1874-1954 Sunrise. |
| Contents |
Beautiful child of song / Stephen Foster -- Dust of snow ; The rose family : [both] from Three poems by Robert Frost / Elliott Carter -- The moon drops low : from Four American Indian songs / Charles Wakefield Cadman -- Home thoughts ; White moon ; Joy / Ruth Crawford (Seeger) -- The widow's lament in springtime / Milton Babbitt -- American primitive : from Three solitary songs / Warren Benson -- The sleeper / George Crumb -- My father : from Mutability / Irving Fine -- Nothin' but love ; I love you truly ; Her greatest charm / Carrie Jacobs-Bond -- The junk man / Sergius Kagen -- Lost / Mario Davidovsky. |
| Contents |
(cont) -- Little four paws : from Five songs for contralto / John Cage -- Dozing on the lawn : from Time to the old / William Schuman -- Song : (She is not fair) ; The all-enduring / Charles Ives -- Lethe / Rebecca Clarke - - Interlude : from Poems of love and the rain / Ned Rorem -- Time, you old gypsy man / Samuel Adler -- Grandma (Millie) : from Suite, Three ladies / Stanley Walden -- Stein x seven. No. 6 / Aaron Jay Kernis -- Waitin : from Cabaret songs / William Bolcom -- There came a wind like a bugle : from Twelve poems of Emily Dickinson / Aaron Copland -- Sunrise : for voice, violin, and piano / Charles Ives (with Joyce Robbins, violin). |
| General note | Elektra/Nonesuch: 79178-2 (on container: 9 79178-2). |
| General note | "Music by 21 American composers, to words by some of America's outstanding poets, written ... from 1860 to the 1980s"--Program notes, p. 5. |
| General note | Program notes, durations, and texts (19 p. : ill.) inserted in container. |
| General note | Compact disc; digital recording. |
| Performer |
Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano ; Gilbert Kalish, piano. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Dec. 21-23, 1987 at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York. |
| Publisher number | 79178-2 Elektra/Nonesuch |
| Publisher number | 9 79178.2 Elektra/Nonesuch |