"Benson's settings of texts (Songs for the End of the World) ...had winning simplicity.

- The New York Times

Warren Benson in his office

Song Cycles and Solo Songs

Five Lyrics of Louise Bogan – My Voice Not Being Proud

Five Lyrics of Louise Bogan – The Alchemist

Five Lyrics of Louise Bogan – Juan's Song

Five Lyrics of Louise Bogan – Fifteenth Farewell II

Five Lyrics of Louise Bogan – Knowledge

Theodore Presser Company-sales

Jan DeGaetani, mezzo soprano, Bonita Boyd, flute

Gasparo GSCD-261

20:00

Mez, fl

text by Louise Bogan

1977

for Bonita Boyd

Hills, Woods, Brook: Three Love Songs

Subito Music/The Online Subito Store

14:20

voice, cl, tpt, vn, vc, pf, 1 perc [be, mar, 4wdblk, tri]

text by A.R. Ammons

1982

for the University of Connecticut

Moon Rain and Memory Jane – Why We Die

Moon Rain and Memory Jane – Child's Game

Moon Rain and Memory Jane – To My Father

Moon Rain and Memory Jane – Dust

Moon Rain and Memory Jane – Mourning For the Queen of Sunday

Moon Rain and Memory Jane – Endless Life

Subito Music/The Online Subito Store

Performed by Lucy Shelton, soprano, Steve Doane, cello, Steven Isserlis, cello

Gasparo GSCD-261

35:00

S, 2 vc

text by May Swenson, Judson Jerome, Blaga Dmitrova, Sydney Russell, Robert Hayden, Liz M. Rosenberg

1984

Nara

Carl Fischer LLC-rental

16:00 (20:00)

S, fl, pf, 2 perc [2 timp, 2 toms, tam, maraca, jawbne, bd, whip, sm gong, tuned temple gong or ch, 8 high pitched drums (Moroccan clay drums)]

text by Earle Birney

1970

for the Lyric Arts Trio

Shadow Wood – Into the Shadow Wood

Shadow Wood – The Timeless World

Shadow Wood – We Have Grown Fond

Shadow Wood – Covenant

Shadow Wood – We Have Not Long To Love

Shadow Wood – The Last Wine

Keiser Productions, Inc.

Performed by Virginia Dupuy, mezzo soprano and the Meadows Wind Ensemble

Jack Delany, conductor

Gasparo GSCD – 342

22:00

Mez, 16 winds, perc -’93 version: mezzo, 2 (pc).1.2.bc.1/1.1.1.0/db (w/low C) hp/4perc [be, vb, ch, mar, 4tri, 2sc, 3tams, wdblk, 2bd, picc sd, bongo, tamb, tmpb, metal wdch,glass wdch]

text by Tennessee Williams

1968

for Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory W.E., Frank Battisti, conductor (full band); SMU Meadows W.E., Jack Delaney, conductor (chamber ens.)

Songs for the End of the World - I. Awakening

Songs for the End of the World - II. Two Step

Songs for the End of the World - III. Lullaby

Songs for the End of the World - IV. Spring

Songs for the End of the World - V. Siciliana

Songs for the End of the World - VI. Nocturne

Hal Leonard

Jan DeGaetani, mezzo soprano, Verne Reynolds, horn, Robert Sylvester, cello, John Beck, marimba, Phillip West, English horn

Albany Records: Troy 236

30:00

Mez, hn, Eng hn, vc, mar

John Gardner

1980

for the International Horn Society

(Three) Solitary Songs – American Primitive

Carl Fischer LLC

Excerpt “American Primitive”

Performed by Jan DeGaetani, mezzo soprano, Gilbert Kalish, piano

Nonesuch 79178-2

02:09

med. voice (avail in treble and bass clefs), pf

text by Earle Birney, William Jay Smith, and Kenneth Patchen

1964