The selection of songs has been carefully considered to represent a variety of composers from primarily the twentieth century. Songs were chosen that are appropriate challenges to the advancing teenage singer, or for the university student.


DOMINICK ARGENTO: Dirge
LEONARD BERNSTEIN: I hate music!
FRANK BRIDGE: Love went a-riding
BENJAMIN BRITTEN: The Nurse's Song
BENJAMIN BRITTEN: O Waly, Waly
BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Sail on, sail on
BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Sephestia's Lullaby
AARON COPLAND: At the River
AARON COPLAND: Heart, we will forget him
AARON COPLAND: The Little Horses
AARON COPLAND: Simple Gifts
AARON COPLAND: The world feels dusty
GERALD FINZI: It was a lover and his lass
JOHN IRELAND: Spring Sorrow
C. HUBERT H. PARRY: A Spring Song
HENRY PURCELL (realizations by Benjamin Britten): I attempt from love's sickness
HENRY PURCELL (realizations by Benjamin Britten): If music be the food of love (1st version)
ROGER QUILTER: Dream Valley
ROGER QUILTER: Love's Philosophy
ROGER QUILTER: Weep you no more
NED ROREM: Little Elegy
NED ROREM: Love
CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD: A Lullaby
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Bright is the ring of words
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Linden Lea
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The sky above the roof