Vocal Music by Jana Skarecky
EMILY, THE WAY YOU ARE
(2008) [one-woman opera] [50]
Libretto: Di
Brandt
Instr: Mezzo-soprano, oboe, french horn, viola, cello, piano, percussion
EMILY, THE WAY YOU ARE
(2008) [one-woman opera] [50]
Libretto: Di
Brandt
Instr: Mezzo-soprano, piano
EMILY, THE WAY YOU ARE (2007) [one-woman opera, shorter version] [25 30]
Libretto: Di
Brandt
Instr: Mezzo-soprano, oboe, french horn, viola, cello, piano, percussion
EMILY, THE WAY YOU ARE (2007) [one-woman
opera, shorter version]
[25 30]
Libretto: Di
Brandt
Instr: Mezzo-soprano, piano
LOVE FOR THE EARTH (2005) [2]
Text: Jana Skarecky
Instr: soprano &
baritone
THE BEGINNING OF THE WIND (2004) [1045]
Text: Viggo
Mortensen
Instr: baritone &
piano
7 SONGS FOR THE
PLAY THE HOBBIT (2003)
Texts: J.R.R.
Tolkien
Instr: songs for
children; voices a cappella
PLANET EARTH (2002) [1030]
Text: P.K. Page
Instr: soprano &
piano
GREEN AND GOLD (2001) [14]
Commissioned by
Wider Boundaries of Daring Poetry Conference, Windsor
Texts: P.K. Page
Instr: soprano &
piano
GRADE ONE AND TWO SONGS (1998-2000)
Texts: many
authors
Instr: voices a
cappella
LULLABIES #2 (1993-95) [1530]
Texts: many
authors
Instr: voice a
cappella (8 solo, 2 duet)
CHILDRENS SONGS (1991-92) [21]
Texts: Clyde
Watson & others
Instr: 60 songs;
voice a cappella or piano
THE LIVING WIND (1990) [14]
Text: Jana
Skarecky
Instr.:
mezzo-soprano, flute, 'cello, harp
LULLABIES
(1988) [18]
Texts: poems by
I.Tupaj, A.Bittleston, I.Wyatt, V.Weigl, W.Blake, J.
Skarecky, & anon.
Instr.: voice a
cappella (5 solos, 3 m/f duets)
DAYSPRING (1987) [10]
Text: Margaret
Avison
Instr.:
mezzo-soprano & piano
ARISE MY LOVE (1980, revised 1982) [3]
Text: Song of
Solomon 2:10-13 (RSV)
Instr.: Soprano
solo, piccolo trumpet, organ
ET
INCARNATUS EST (1981) [22]
Texts: I. Gracia Fay Ellwood
II. Thomas
John Carlisle
III. Matthew
Brown IV. Josiah Bancroft V. Phil Silva
Instr.: baritone
solo, horn, piano (& version for mezzo-soprano)
BETHLEHEM LULLABY (1980) [3]
Text: Isabel
Wyatt
Instr.: soprano
solo (or unison choir), piano