What Shall I Sing Today?
Art Songs for Voice and Piano, Volume 2
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1. Comfort
2. Simple Observation
3. Hymn for St. Brigid’s Day
4. Shall I Dare to Love Again?
5. Too Long in “Good Company”
6. Look at Me!
7. Call to the Hills
Title: What Shall I Sing Today?
Art Songs for Voice & Piano, Volume 2
Instrumentation: med/high voice, piano
Seven more melodious and well crafted songs by contemporary American composer and lyricist Nancy Bachmann.
Comfort
May you be wrapped in comfort sure and sweet
Of lasting love and gentle, knowing friends,
Until this present aching sorrow mends,
May Hope, that faithful dog, curl at your feet.
Let forest paths lead you where beauty grows,
And Redwoods whisper wisdom. Hush and hear:
“This, too, shall pass, don’t spill your strength in fear,
But ponder how the timely river flows.”
Let’s breathe the fragrance of our guardian trees,
Share a cup from crystal springs for balm,
Pray with the Meadowlark’s melodious Psalm,
And wonder, clear-eyed, what the day will be
When peace and purpose will revive the soul,
And marvels yet unknown become our goal.
Hymn for St. Brigid’s Day
I stand on my threshold
in the fading day,
hearing the distant surf
churn the sand.
As sky fades to rose,
A breeze from nowhere,
from everywhere,
drops a golden leaf
into my outstretched hand.
In this transparent hour,
gazing deep within
this tiny garment
of the spirit,
even severed
from its stem.
I behold the love
that is never
severed from anything.
Art Songs for Voice & Piano, Volume 2