SONGS OF ENCHANTMENT
10 songs for soprano or mezzo soprano and piano on poems by Walter de la Mare

Carrie Henneman Shaw, soprano
Sharon Johnson, piano

Juliana Hall, composer
Walter de la Mare, poet

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Songs of Enchantment

KING OF THE CLOUDS is a "school show" S/A/T/B piano about Kevin and his mother, Jane. The show dramatizes a number of social issues impacting teens and families.

KOTC 11

KOTC 10

KOTC 9

KOTC 8

By Michael Ching and Reg Huston
Performed by Holly Janz, students at Concordia College. Stephen Sulich Piano. 
Recorded for Fargo Moorhead Opera's contribution to the 2022 Decameron Opera Coalition project.

This Perfect Gift (solo and choral version)

In our own back yard by Michael Ching

Lyrics by Steve Aiken. Commissioned by Shreveport Opera 2025

Dater 101 My Darling Pet Snake

An unusual number where a detective comes in to thank a dater for donating a kidney to their sibling. 

Dater 98 Uninvited Guest Demo

Contemporary Christmas Carol. 
Music by Michael Ching, Lyrics by Reg Huston
Demoed by Jessica Ann Best

There is a solo with chorus version as well. Contact me for more info.
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This Perfect Gift (Solo version)

Performance in 2023 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, curated by Aaron Jay Kernis. In this aria, Artemisia Gentileschi sings about how Galileo Galilei showed her the moon through a glass, like the glass that the oculist uses to look at her eyes. The two did indeed know each other and wrote letters to one another. The aria is tinged with sadness as our Artemisia is losing her eyesight. The real Artemisia wrote how she needed funds for a medical treatment. It was surmised by our librettist Ginger Strand that that may have been for her eyesight-perhaps she had cataracts, so the arc of this opera imagines that Artemisia was losing her eyesight- as we know in those later letters that she voiced concerns- this could be the medical treatment she needed. Of course the allusion to Artemis and the moon are there, for our Artemisia, as well. 

Lucy Fitz Gibbon sings the Moon aria from Artemisia by Laura Schwendinger

DAYBREAK from the song cycle SONGS OF ENCHANTMENT

Carrie Henneman Shaw, soprano
Sharon Johnson, piano

Juliana Hall, composer
Walter de la Mare, poet

Daybreak

AWAY GO WE from the song cycle SONGS OF ENCHANTMENT

Carrie Henneman Shaw, soprano
Sharon Johnson, piano

Juliana Hall, composer
Walter de la Mare, poet

Away Go We

DOUBLE DUTCH from the song cycle SONGS OF ENCHANTMENT

Carrie Henneman Shaw, soprano
Sharon Johnson, piano

Juliana Hall, composer
Walter de la Mare, poet

Double Dutch

THE SPOTTED FLYCATCHER from the song cycle SONGS OF ENCHANTMENT

Carrie Henneman Shaw, soprano
Sharon Johnson, piano

Juliana Hall, composer
Walter de la Mare, poet

The Spotted Flycatcher

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

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

Juliana Hall

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