8 Epitaphs for Cello Solo based on Epitaphs by Walter de la Mare&#13;
(published by <a href="https://www.johnsonstring.com/cgi-bin/music/scripts/violin-viola-cello-music.cgi?action=2&amp;itemno=CEHALLDINGBELLJM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Juliana Hall Music</a>)<br /><br />David Sims, cello

Ding Dong Bell

AHAB
a monodrama for baritone or bass baritone and piano
on a libretto by Caitlin Vincent

Zachary James, bass baritone
Charity Wicks, piano

Juliana Hall, composer
Caitlin Vincent, librettist


TEXT:

[with bitterness]

The sea is calm now.
Heavy with the broken bodies of my men.
The splintered pieces of my ship.
Weak and brittle when it mattered.
Now empty shells in the deep.
. . .
I had him!
Gods above, I had him!
The steel in my hand.
The throw and the thrust.
The gush of his blood.

[suddenly disoriented]

Then the rope round my neck.
The pull and the snap.
And then. . . then. . .
Silence.
Darkness.

[deranged]

Where are you?
Destroyer!
I know you’re here!
I can taste your bitter blood in the brine.
Come and face me!
Come and conquer me if you can!
. . .
I sense him.
Lurking.
Like a viper in a dark abyss.
But I’m ready.
Ready to stab.
To spit my last breath!
Do you hear me?
Demon!
. . .
Silence.
. . .

[uneasily]

The moon will be out now.
Anna will be asleep.
Will she feel it when she wakes?
Will she weep for the husband she barely knew?
. . .

[with growing fatigue]

This inky blackness. . .
How it seeps into my eyes. . .
Starbuck?
Is that you?
No. . .
I’m alone in the cold and the dark.
Alone.
Except for you.
. . .
I’m ready.
Waiting.
Do you hear me?
I’ll wait for you.
Rest my head on the floor of the sea.
Rest my head,
And wait. . .

The text AHAB is used by permission of the author, Caitlin Vincent, copyright © 2020

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AHAB

7 songs for Soprano and Piano on poems by Emily Dickinson

Patricia Prunty, soprano and Juliana Hall, piano

Paradise

Art song cycle "Winter Windows"

David Malis, baritone
Heather MacLaughlin, piano

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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

The Snow-Man

A Song

The Snowflake

Winter Night

Lovestars

Pamela Jordan Schiffer, soprano
Lori Barnet, cello
Mark Markham, piano

love is the every only god

A World Turned Upside Down

Kathleen Roland-Silverstein, soprano
Lisa Sylvester, piano

Footsteps

One Art

Amy Champagne, mezzo soprano
Eric Dahlin, cello

One Art

Propriety

Pamela Jordan Schiffer, soprano
Juliana Hall, piano

Melchior Vulpius

Propriety

Dream

Carnegie Hall: Rescued

Mercifully

O Mistress Mine

Darryl Taylor, countertenor
Juliana Hall, piano

LOVE'S SIGNATURE

Fear no more the heat o’ th’ sun

Lawn as white as driven snow

Dreams in War Time

Amy Champagne, mezzo soprano
Juliana Hall, piano

I wished to post a letter

I followed a procession of singing girls

I painted the leaves of bushes red

I gambled with a silver money

I dug a grave under an oak-tree

I wandered through a house of many rooms

The Poet's Calendar

Christopher Walker, tenor
Juliana Hall, piano

February

January

The Bells

Alexandra Porter, soprano
Brent Funderburk, piano

The Bells

The Holy Sonnets of John Donne

Joel Burcham, tenor
Liz Avery, piano

Oh my blacke Soule!

Night Dances

Dawn Upshaw, soprano
Margo Garrett, piano

Song

Some Things Are Dark

When the South Wind Sings

Tabitha Burchett, soprano
Riley McKinch, piano

Under The Harvest Moon

In Spring  [songs 1 & 2; no recording available of 3]

Amy Petrongelli, soprano

but the other

O sweet spontaneous

GODIVA
a monodrama for soprano or mezzo soprano and piano
on a libretto by Caitlin Vincent

Kitty Whately, mezzo soprano
Joseph Middleton, piano

Juliana Hall, composer
Caitlin Vincent, librettist

TEXT:

Men have a talent for invention.
With a simple stroke of a quill,
they redact, revise, mischaracterize.
I have lived a thousand years
in the written thoughts of men.
A thousand years.
Not as flesh but as myth.

[ruefully]

No one remembers the ‘why.’
The ‘how.’
Even the ‘who.’
All they recall:
Lady Godiva naked on a horse.
Lady Godiva naked. . . and chocolate.

[with frustration]

Is it worse to be forgotten than to be misremembered?
I am tired of the stories.
How they linger on my hair, my sex, my skin.
I am Godiva.
Not a victim or a fool.
Or a vessel for men’s desire.
Just a woman who made a choice.

...

My husband was greedy.
Always demanding more tax.
Even when the people would starve.
I pleaded.
Persisted.
Until he finally broke.
“I will lower the tax,
when you ride naked through the town.”
He thought to weaken my resolve.
As if he didn’t know me at all.
But I stripped off my robe.
Unbound my hair.
Veiled my body in sunlight.
And rode my horse through the square.
I reveled in my gown of sun.
Then turned for home.

...

Forget the stories you’ve read.
The legend you’ve heard.
Remember this Godiva.
Not the myth... but me.


The text GODIVA is used by permission of the author, Caitlin Vincent, copyright © 2019

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GODIVA

THE RIDE-BY-NIGHTS from the song cycle SONGS OF ENCHANTMENT

Carrie Henneman Shaw, soprano
Sharon Johnson, piano

Juliana Hall, composer
Walter de la Mare, poet

The Ride-by-Nights

ALAS, ALACK! from the song cycle SONGS OF ENCHANTMENT

Carrie Henneman Shaw, soprano
Sharon Johnson, piano

Juliana Hall, composer
Walter de la Mare, poet

Alas, Alack!

HIDE AND SEEK from the song cycle SONGS OF ENCHANTMENT

Carrie Henneman Shaw, soprano
Sharon Johnson, piano

Juliana Hall, composer
Walter de la Mare, poet

Hide and Seek

SILLY SALLIE from the song cycle SONGS OF ENCHANTMENT

Carrie Henneman Shaw, soprano
Sharon Johnson, piano

Juliana Hall, composer
Walter de la Mare, poet

Silly Sallie

A SONG OF ENCHANTMENT from the song cycle SONGS OF ENCHANTMENT

Carrie Henneman Shaw, soprano
Sharon Johnson, piano

Juliana Hall, composer
Walter de la Mare, poet

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