Soprano voice,Vocal Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.869653 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. 20th Century,Contemporary,Romantic Period. 68 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #5751651. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.869653). I am not a huge fan of Mahler's music but his Kindertotenlieder is a cultural gem!   I inadvertently discovered that the poet Friedrich Rückert who penned Kindertodtenlieder (yes, with a d ... LOL!) wrote 400-plus of these KTL poems after his two youngest children died of scarlet fever.  I bought the book @ Amazon.   After plowing through 442 of them, I winnowed it down to ten poems for my song cycle.  It is scored for soprano and piano.  NB: I cannot afford an orchestra, and it would be too much unnecessary work.  LOL!!!  The entire song cycle has a duration of ca. 35 minutes.  It ends like a mechanical music box while the soprano sings a lullaby.  Sleep is of course a perfect metaphor for being dead.  Enjoy!!!https://thomasoboelee.bandcamp.com/album/kindertodtenlieder-2020

Soprano voice,Vocal Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.869524 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. 20th Century,Baroque,Classical,Contemporary,Romantic Period. 39 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #3106055. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.869524). A song cycle of four poems and two translations by Elizabeth Bishop.1. Valentine2. In the Middle of the Road (Carlos Drummond de Andrade, trans. by EB)3. Valentine4. My Last Poem (Manuel Bandeira, trans. by EB)5. Valentine6. The ReprimandUsed of poems by Elizabeth Bishop granted by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Bandcamp link: https://thomasoboelee.bandcamp.com/album/three-valentines-2017