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Songfest: A Cycle of American Poems for Six Singers and Orchestra

Songfest: A Cycle of American Poems for Six Singers and Orchestra is a 1977 song cycle by Leonard Bernstein. The cycle consists of 12 settings of 13 American poems, performed by six singers in solos, duets, a trio, and three sextets.

Poems
Songfest includes settings of these poems: • "To the Poem" (Frank O'Hara) – sextet • "The Pennycandystore Beyond the El" (Lawrence Ferlinghetti) – baritone solo • "A Julia de Burgos" (Julia de Burgos) – soprano solo • "To What You Said" (Walt Whitman) – solo • "I, Too, Sing America" (Langston Hughes) / "Okay 'Negroes' " (June Jordan) – duet • "To My Dear and Loving Husband" (Anne Bradstreet) – trio • "Storyette H. M." (Gertrude Stein) – duet • "if you can't eat you got to" (e.e. cummings) – sextet • "Music I Heard with You" (Conrad Aiken) – solo • "Zizi's Lament" (Gregory Corso) – solo • "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed" (Edna St. Vincent Millay) – solo • "Israfel" (Edgar Allan Poe) – sextet ==Instrumentation==
Instrumentation
piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, english horn, e-flat clarinet, 2 b-flat clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, piano, electric keyboard, bass guitar, harp, timpani, string orchestra, percussion. ==References==
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