Op. 30 MERTON SONGS (September 2, 1986)
For Voice and Keyboard
Texts by Thomas Merton
I. The Philosophers
II. Dirge for the World Joyce Died In
III. Two British Airmen
IV. Poem (Here Is the Man)
V. Poem (Light Plays)
VI. The City's Spring
VII. Dirge for the City of Miami
VIII. La Comparsa en Oriente
IX. The Strife Between the Poet and Ambition
X. Hymn to Commerce
XI. From the Second Chapter of a Verse History of the World (Minotaur)
XII. Hymn of Not Much Praise for New York City
XIII. Tower of Babel (The Political Speech)
XIV. Nombril Walketh on the Loam
XV. Lent (A Fragment)
XVI. Sacred Heart II (A Fragment)
Score:
https://imslp.org/wiki/Merton_Songs%2C_Op.30_(Alburger%2C_Mark)
Performances:
November 4, 1992
Susan Brown, Soprano; Mark Alburger, Keyboard
Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
May 12; August 23, 25, 28, 30; September 1, 6, 8, 11, 2006
Mark Alburger, Voice and MIDI
Diablo Valley College Music Technology Center, Pleasant Hill, CA
April 20, 2007
Eliza O'Malley, Soprano; Alexis Alrich, Piano
Old First Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, CA
June 27, 2015
The Opus Project presents Opus 3-and-0: A Space/Time Odyssey
The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music, Pleasant Hill, CA
Recording:
BASS AND RANGE
(Complete Works, Volume 5)
(New Music, 2006)
