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)   [10’45”]

   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)   [10’30”]

   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)   [15’30”]

   Texts: many authors

   Instr: voice a cappella (8 solo, 2 duet)

 

CHILDREN’S 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

 
 

 

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