Samuel Barber
Paper, Presentations, Exams and Projects
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Hermit Songs
-MP3: At St. Patrick's Purgatory
-MP3: Promiscuity
-MP3: The Crucifixion
-MP3: The Desire for Hermitage
-MP3: The Monk and His Cat
-The first link goes to the texts for these songs, taken from anonymous Irish monks writing in the 8th - 13th centuries C.E.
-The MP3 links are to several of the ten songs in this cycle.
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Sure on this Shining Night (James Agee)
-MP3: Sure on this Shining Night Alexander
-MP3: Sure on this Shining Night Hendricks
-This is an enormously popular song by Samuel Barber. This link takes you to the site dedicated to Thomas Hampson's PBS documentary, "I Hear America Singing." There you can read about James Agee, the poet for this text, and can hear Hampson sing this song. The links below are to two additional performances of this song -- the first, sung by Roberta Alexander, with piano, and the second, sung by Barbara Hendricks, with orchestra.
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Solitary Hotel (James Joyce)
-MP3
-This song, from the set "Desperate and Still," op. 4, is sung by Roberta Alexander on this MP3.
-Here is an interesting web page devoted to James Joyce, Barber, and this song:
http://www.themodernword.com/joyce/music/barber_hotel.html