Hildegard is celebrating National Poetry Month during the month of April. We’ve curated a list of vocal solos and choral music that feature great poetry. Launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month is a special occasion that celebrates poets’ integral role in our culture and that poetry matters.
Vocal Solos:
- 4 Poems of Li Ching – Ann Kearns (491-00585)
- Black Cake, a Recipe by Emily Dickinson – Sylvia Glickman (491-00514)
- Chansons Innocentes – Laura Elise Schwendinger (491-00586): poetry by e.e. cummings
- Collected Songs of Poldowski: volume 1 – Irena Regina Poldowski (491-00653): poetry by Paul Verlaine
- Collected Songs of Poldowski: volume 2 – Irena Regina Poldowski (491-00654): poetry by Hugo, Tennyson, Yeats, Blake and others
- Emily Dickinson Songs – Sylvia Glickman (491-00515)
- Six Japanese Songs – Margaret Garwood (491-00588): poetry by Hashin, Shushiki, Basho and others
- Six Poems of Mary Oliver – Ann Kearns (491-00575)
- Six Songs on Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay – Margaret Bonds (491-03177)
- Six Songs to Poetry by Yeats – Joyce Hope Suskind (491-00552)
- Songs of War – Elaine Hugh-Jones (491-00629): poetry by Wilfred Owen
- A Time to Blossom – Meira Warshauer (491-00626): poetry by Hildegard of Bingen, Emily Dickinson and Hannah Senesh
- Twelve Lieder – Pauline Viardot-Garcia (491-00558): poetry by Turgenev, Feth and Pushkin
- Two Lieder – Alma [Schindler] Mahler (491-00529): poetry by Rilke
Choral Music:
- At the Edge of Great Quiet – Cynthia Folio (392-01205): SSAA Chorus and Piano poetry by four Alaskan women poets
- Daughter Awake with the Moon – Janice Hamer (492-00115): Women’s Choir poetry by Julia Budenz
- Gartenlieder – Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (492-00120): SATB Chorus poetry by Eichendorff and others
- Haiku Zoo – Margaret Garwood (492-00112): SATB Chorus various poets
- Peace – Emma Lou Diemer (392-01207): SSAA Chorus & Organ poetry by Sara Teasdale
- Sleep Song – Margaret Bonds (392-03113) SSAA Chorus & Piano poetry by Joyce Kilmer
