Companion book to the CD of the same name plus bonus material, featuring songs for soprano, mezzo-soprano and baritone.
PASSING BY Song Collection (2008)
A Lucky Child, from At The Statue of Venus (McNally)
Facing Forward/Looking Back (2007)
for two women
1. Motherwit (Charlene Baldridge)
2. Grounded (Eugenia Zukerman)
3. Hummingbird – for Tess (Raymond Carver)
4. Mother in the Mirror (Armistead Maupin)
5. Facing Forward (Jake Heggie)
Here and Gone (2005)
For tenor and baritone
1. The Farms of Home (A.E. Housman)
2. In Praise of Songs that Die (Vachel Lindsay)
3. Stars (Housman)
4. The Factory Window Song (Lindsay)
5. In the Morning (Housman)
6. Because I Liked You Better (Housman)
7. The Half-Moon Westers Low (Housman)
To Say Before Going To Sleep (Rilke)
Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia
1. Ophelia’s Song (Heggie)
2. Women Have Loved Before (Edna St Vincent Millay)
3. Not in a Silver Casket (Millay)
4. Spring (Millay)
Final Monologue from Master Class (McNally)
Recordings of this composition are available. See Passing By: Songs by Jake Heggie (Avie) and Talise Trevigne: At the Statue of Venus.
Collections are published Songbooks or books of compositions. The songs and arias are often found individually in Recordings as well as Compositions. One or more recordings have been made. (Here is a Search for them.) Sheet Music, Scores, Parts and Performance Materials are available from billholabmusic.com.
