14 Songs on American Poetry for Voice and Piano

Words and music are inextricably linked for Ned Rorem. Time Magazine has called him "the world's best composer of art songs." A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music this volume presents a collection of 14 songs on different American poets for voice and piano. Contents:

• As Adam Early in the Morning (Walt Whitman)
• Early in the Morning (Robert Hillyer)
• I am Rose (Gertrude Stein)
• Memory (Theodore Roethke)
• My Papa's Waltz (Theodore Roethke)
• Night Crow (Theodore Roethke)
• O You Whom I Often and Silently Come (Walt Whitman)
• Root Cellar (Theodore Roethke)
• Sally's Smile (Paul Goodman)
• See How They Love Me (Howard Moss)
• Snake (Theodore Roethke)
• Such Beauty As Hurts to Behold (Paul Goodman)
• The Waking (Theodore Roethke)
• Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night (Walt Whitman)