Alphabetical List of Performable Works by Marc Blitzstein
Compiled by Leonard Lehrman, May 2005
Music by Marc Blitzstein
A-Roving (arr.) #2 from Chesapeake Bay Retriever (1936)
Abel Offers the Lamb #2 from Cain (1930)
Addie's Lullaby [cut] from Regina (1949)
after all white horses are in bed song #1 from Is 5 (1929) (E.E. Cummings)
After the Dazzle of Day (1925) #2 of 9 Walt Whitman songs
Ages and Ages (1928) #9 of 9 Walt Whitman songs
Agni #1 from Svarga (1924-5)
Air [aka Drag] #2 from Percussion Music for the Piano (1928-9)
Airborne Symphony, The (1943-6) cantata for male chorus and orchestra
excerpts:
Ballad of Hurry-Up
Ballad of the Bombardier ("Emily")
American Day song from Native Land (1940)
And So the Last Thing Too (aka The Suicide) Sc.4 from I've Got the Tune (1937)
Argument, The: What Is Capitalism? male trio with chorus from No for an Answer (1937-40)
Art for Art's Sake duet from The Cradle Will Rock (1935-6)
As Adam (1927) #7 of 9 Walt Whitman songs
As If a Phantom Caress'd Me (1925) #1 of 9 Walt Whitman songs
Ask Us Again trio from The Cradle Will Rock (1935-6)
Autolycus-Dorcas-Mopsa Trio (1958) from The Winter's Tale (Shakespeare)
Away! duet (or female solo) from Regina (1946-9)
Baby Don't You Cry (Lullaby) from No for an Answer (1939-41)
Ballad of Hurry-Up male chorus from The Airborne Symphony (1943-6)
Ballad of the Bombardier ("Emily") baritone solo song from The Airborne Symphony (1943-6)
Barcarolle [aka Waterfall] piano solo (1918)
Be With Me solo song from Reuben Reuben (1949-55)
Belly-Ache (A "Blues") from Svarga (1924-5)
Ben's Aria (Greedy Girl) from Regina (1946-9)
Ben's Entrance male solo [cut] from Regina (1946-9)
Ben's Last male solo from Regina (1946-9)
Best Thing of All, The female aria from Regina (1946-9)
Big Rich quartet from Regina (1946-9)
Bigots' Chorus (Jim Seymour; W81) from Sacco and Vanzetti (1959-2001)
Bird Upon the Tree duet from Juno (1957-9)
Birdie (Music, Music, Music) from Regina (1946-9)
Birdie's (Second) Aria (Lionet) female solo from Regina (1946-9)
Blow, blow, blow! mvt 5 from "a word out of the sea" (1928) (Walt Whitman cantata)
Blues solo song from Regina (1946-9)
Blues, A, [aka Belly-Ache] from Svarga (1924-5)
Bourgeois at Play: Scherzo piano solo (1930)
Building of the City from Cain (1930)
Cain ballet (1930)
Certainly, Lord (Finale) chorus (and female duet) from Regina (1946-9)
Chesapeake Bay Retriever film score (1936) (Mrs. Milton Erlanger & Thomas T.K. Frelinghuysen)
Chez Eitingon occasional solo song (1946)
Chick Song ("The Russian Language") quasi-title song from Goloopchik (1945)
Child Writes a Letter, A [from:]
Children of Adam [Four Coon Shouts] #6-9 of Walt Whitman Songs (9)(1927-8)
Children's Cantata ("Workers' Kids of the World Unite") (1934)
Chinkypin solo song from Regina (1946-9)
Circular Canons #1-3 (1925-7) (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
1. Pity Me
2. Safe (Lehrman completion, 2003)
3. I Only Know
Cloche au crépuscule, La (aka Scene-Change: Piano Solo in the style of Louis Moreau Gottschalk) from Regina (1946-9)
College Scene male quartet from The Cradle Will Rock (1936)
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (Piano Concerto) (1931)
Cop's Lament from Reuben Reuben (1955)
Condemned, The one-act choral opera (1932)
Court Song (Anon.) #4 of 6 Elizabethan Songs (1958)
Cradle Will Rock, The solo song [also chorus] from The Cradle Will Rock (1935-6)
Cradle Will Rock, The (1935-6) play in music [Lehrman adaptation, 1969]
excerpts:
Art for Art's Sake (from Sc.6)
Ask Us Again (from Sc.6)
College Scene (Sc.8)
Cradle Will Rock, The (from Sc.7; also 10)
Croon Spoon (from Sc.4)
Doctor and Ella (from Sc.9)
Drugstore Scene (from Sc.5)
Freedom of the Press, The (from Sc.4)
Gus and Sadie Love Song (from Sc.5)
Honolulu (from Sc.4)
Joe Worker (from Sc.9)
Leaflets (from Sc.7)
Mission Scene (Sc.3)
Nickel Under the Foot, The (from Sc.7--also 2 & 10)
Rich, The (from Sc.6)
Croon Spoon duet from The Cradle Will Rock (1936)
Cummings, E.E., Songs: see Is 5 (1929); and From Marion's Book (1960)
Daarlin' Man from Juno [aka Daarlin' Juno]
Dance of Noema from Cain (1930)
Dance of the Mortal Maiden and Soma from Svarga (1924-5)
Danton's Death incidental music (Georg Büchner) (1938)
excerpts: Ho Christina
Ode to Reason
Darlin' Man duet with chorus from Juno (1957-9)
Deedle Doodle solo song from Regina (1946-9)
Did They Think They Could Get Away With That? chorus from No for an Answer (1937-40)
Dieu tout puissant (Old French Hymn) #7 from Circular Canons (11)(1925-7)
Dimples female solo song from No for an Answer (1937-40)
Discourse for Clarinet, Cello, Piano (1933)
Displaced ("Song of the D.P.") solo song from Goloopchik (1945)
Doctor and Ella duet from The Cradle Will Rock (1936)
Doll's House, A (Henrik Ibsen) (Italian Scene) from Sacco and Vanzetti (1959-2001)
Drag [aka] Air from Percussion Music for the Piano (1928-9)
Dream Is Mine, The solo song (n.d.) [reused in Regina]
Drugstore Scene trio from The Cradle Will Rock (1936)
Dublin Night (Ballet)(w/Trude Rittman) from Juno (1957-9)
Dusty Sun solo song with chorus from Native Land (1940)
Elizabethan Songs (6) (1958)
Emily ("Ballad of the Bombardier")(1943-6) baritone solo song from The Airborne Symphony
Expatriate solo song [Lehrman completion 3/95] from No For An Answer (1937-40)
Family Portrait from Chesapeake Bay Retriever (1936)
Farewell, Me Butty duet from Juno (1957-9)
Festival from Cain (1930)
Few Little English (1936) solo song "for Lenja" [Lotte Lenya] [Lehrman reconstruction, 1997]
Fire Dance (c.1918) violin & piano
First of May (1935) mass song (Eva Goldbeck)
Flam [aka Toccata] from Percussion Music for the Piano (1928-9)
Fool's Song (1950) solo song from King Lear (Shakespeare)
For EmJo's Bitter Fantasy (1923) for string quartet
for Kit's Wedding (Slow March) (1953)
For Love solo song from Juno (1957-9)
Francie duet from No For An Answer (1937-40)
Fraught solo song from No For An Answer (1937-40)
Freedom of the Press, The duet from The Cradle Will Rock (1935-6)
Freedom Morning (1943) for orchestra
From Far, From Eve and Morning (1925) #1 of 2 A.E. Housman songs
From Marion's Book (1960) song cycle on E.E. Cummings poems:
1. o by the by
2. when life is quite through with
3. what if a much of a which of a wind
4. silent unday by silently not night
5. until and i heard
6. yes is a pleasant country
7. open your heart
From This Out [cut] from Juno(1957-9)
Gallantry solo song from Regina (1946-9)
Gallop chorus (with ensemble) from Regina (1946-9)
Get Mine male solo from No for an Answer (1937-40)
Gina female solo with ensemble from No for an Answer (1937-40)
Glee for Jamie, A (1953, incomplete) song for Jamie Bernstein
Gods (1926) #5 of 9 Walt Whitman songs
Goloopchik musical (1945, incomplete)
excerpts:
Displaced ("Song of the D.P.")
Lovely Song
The Russian Language ("Chick Song")
Mamasha Goose
So-o-o-o Beautiful
(There's a) Tree Back Home in Kansas
[see also Duet - to music of Tchaikovsky]
Greedy Girl male solo song from Regina (1946-9)
Guests, The ("Show") ballet; piano suite (1946-8)
movements:
Pas de Deux
Three-Four Dance and Finale
Variation II
Variation Three
Gus and Sadie Love Song duet from The Cradle Will Rock (1936)
Hände (Hands) 4-hand pianola score for film (1927) (Stella Simon)
Hard to Say duet [cut] from Reuben Reuben (1949-55)
Harlan Brown, Killed in the Street from This Is the Garden (1957)
Harpies, The (1931) one-act opera [Lehrman adaptation, 1970]
Hills of Amalfi, The quartet from Reuben Reuben (1949-55)[Lehrman trio arr. 2000]
Ho Christina chorus from Danton's Death (1938)
Honolulu ensemble from The Cradle Will Rock (1936)
Horace and Regina duet from Regina (1946-9)
Horace's Death quartet from Regina (1946-9)
Horace's Entrance from Regina (1946-9)
Horace's Last solo (or duet) from Regina (1946-9)
Housman, A.E., Songs (2) (1925)
How doth the city (Lamentations 1:1) #6 from Circular Canons (1925-7)
How I Met My New Grandfather duet [or solo] from Idiots First (1963; Lehrman completion, 1973)
How Long? from Valley Town (1940)
Hymie Is a Poop from This Is the Garden (1957)
Hymn solo with chorus from Juno (1957-9)
I Am He (1928) #8 of 9 Walt Whitman songs
I Don't Know trio from Regina (1946-9)
I Wish It So solo song from Juno (1957-9)
Idiots First one-act opera (1963; Lehrman completion, 1973)
excerpts:
How I Met My New Grandfather (from Sc.4)
Under the Sky (from Sc.7)
Who Will Close the Door? (from Sc.3)
I'm Ten and You'll See from This Is the Garden (1957)
In the Clear solo song from No For An Answer (1937-40)
In Twos from This Is the Garden (1956-7), performable as duet
Indra and the Svarga Dweller from Svarga (1924-5)
Inheritance of Freedom chorus from Native Land (1940)
Innocent Psalm "for the Bernstein baby" piano solo (1953)
Insist Song chorus from No for an Answer (1937-40)
Into My Heart an Air (1925) #2 of 2 A.E. Housman songs
Into the Streets May First (1934) mass song (Alfred Hayes)
Introduction (Act I Sc.1) from Regina (1947-9)
Invitation to Bitterness (1939) chorus [cut from No for an Answer]
Ireland's Eye solo from Juno (1957-9)
Is 5 (1929) song cycle on poems by E.E. Cummings:
1. after all white horses are in bed
2. when life is quite through with
3. mr youse needn't be so spry
4. Jimmie's got a goil
5. you are like the snow
Italian Scene (A Doll's House) from Sacco and Vanzetti (1959-2001)
"Italian" String Quartet, The (1930)
It's Not Irish from Juno (1957-9)
I've Got the Tune (1937) radio song play [Lehrman stage adaptation, 1970]
excerpt: Suicide Scene (Sc.4)
Jimmie's got a goil song #4 from Is 5 (1929) (E.E. Cummings)
Joe Worker solo song from The Cradle Will Rock (1935-6)
Joe's Song ("The Purest Kind of a Guy") solo song [with chorus]
from No for an Answer (1937-40)
Johnny (ballet) from Juno (1957-59)
Joxer's Tune from Juno (1957-59)
Joy, Shipmate, Joy! (1925) #3 of 9 Walt Whitman Songs
Julius Caesar incidental music (Shakespeare) (1937)
excerpt: Orpheus
Juno (1957-9) musical with Joseph Stein after Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock
excerpts:
Bird Upon a Tree
Darlin' Man
Farewell, Me Butty
For Love
Hymn
I Wish It So
Ireland's Eye
Liffey Waltz
Music in the House
My True Heart
Old Sayin's
On a Day Like This
One Kind Word
Quarrel Song
Song of the Ma
We Can Be Proud
We're Alive
What Is the Stars?
You Poor Thing
Just Like Jews from Sacco and Vanzetti (Lehrman completion, 2001)
King Lear incidental music (1950, 1956) (Shakespeare)
Lamech and the Stripling from Cain (1930)
Lament solo song from Juno (1957-9)
Largo, Largo, Largo (aka Serenade for String Quartet) (1934)
Last night, I saw the lovely flower (Lady Murasaki [Shikibu]) from Circular Canons (1925-7)
Leaflets solo melodrama from The Cradle Will Rock (1935-6)
Lear: A Study for orchestra (1958)
Let's Be Blue ("Who Knows?") solo song (1938) [Lehrman arr. for duet 1995]
Lex Express, The from This Is the Garden (1957)
Lied piano solo (1963)
Life on the Ocean Wave (arr.) from Chesapeake Bay Retriever (1936)
Liffey Waltz chorus from Juno(1957-9)
Lionnet female solo scene from Regina (1946-9)
Love at First Word duet from Reuben Reuben (1949-55)
Lovely Song solo song, Lehrman reconstruction, arr. for duet 1988-9,
based on "Tanya" from Goloopchik (1945) and "Jane Pickens Theme" (July 5, 1949)
Lovely to get back to love solo song (1945) [Lehrman completion, 2002]
Lullaby solo song from No for an Answer( 1937-40)
Lullaby solo song from Midsummer Night's Dream #5 of 6 Elizabethan Songs (1958)
Magic Barrel, The incomplete one-act opera after story by Bernard Malamud (1962-4)
excerpts: Opening Scene; Then
Mamasha Goose solo song from Goloopchik (1945)
Maric and Colic protest song (n.d.; melody only)
Marijuana Ballet from Parabola and Circula (1929)
Mary Donovan's Aria from Sacco and Vanzetti (1959-63; Lehrman completion 2001)
Mary Donovan & Police from Sacco and Vanzetti (1959-63; Lehrman completion 2001)
Memorial Day Parade from Sacco and Vanzetti (1959-63; Lehrman completion 2001)
Midsummer Night's Dream incidental music (1958) (Shakespeare)
Mike from No for an Answer (1937-41)
Mild and Lovely solo from No for an Answer (1937-40)
Miracle Song solo song [cut] from Reuben Reuben (1949-55) (Lehrman arr. for duet, 1989)
Mission Scene duet with chorus from The Cradle Will Rock (1935-6)
Modest Maid solo song (1945)
Moll['s Song] from The Cradle Will Rock (1936)
Moment of Love [aka The Very Moment of Love] from Reuben Reuben (1955)
Monday Morning Blues solo song from Reuben Reuben (1949-55)
Monde Libre, Le march for piano solo (1944)
Mother of the Bridegroomfrom Reuben Reuben (1955)
mr youse needn't be so spry song #3 from Is 5 (1929) (E.E. Cummings)
Mrs. Evans' Aria from Sacco and Vanzetti (1959-63; Lehrman completion 2001)
Music in the House solo song with chorus from Juno (1957-9)
Music, Music, Music [aka Birdie] coloratura soprano aria from Regina (1946-9)
Musky and Whiskey duet from Reuben Reuben (1949-55)
My True Heart duet [or solo] from Juno (1957-9)
Mystery of the Flesh solo song from Reuben Reuben (1949-55)
Native Land film score (1940) (Leo Hurwitz) orchestral suite (1946, rev. 1958)
excerpts:
Dusty Sun
Inheritance of Freedom
Naught's a Naught's Prologue#2 [cut] from Regina (1949)
Never Get Lost solo [and quartet] from Reuben Reuben (1949-55)
New Suit, The ("Zipperfly") solo song (1945)
Nickel Under the Foot, The solo song from The Cradle Will Rock (1935-6)
Night Shift radio opera (1942) (Garson Kanin and J. Chambers)
excerpt: Turn the Night Into Day
No for an Answer labor opera (1937-40)
excerpts:
Argument, The: What Is Capitalism? (Act I Sc.5)
Did They Think They Could Get Away With That? (from Act I Sc.11)
Dimples (from Act I Sc.6)
Expatriate (from Act II Sc.5)
Francie (Act I Sc.8)
Fraught (from Act I Sc.6)
Get Mine (Act II Sc.3)
Gina (from Act I Sc.3)
In the Clear (from Act II Sc.1)
Insist Song (Finales I & II)
Lullaby (Act II Sc.9)
Mild and Lovely (from Act II Sc.7)
Outside Agitator (From Act I Sc.6)
Penny Candy (from Act II Sc.1)
Purest Kind of a Guy, The (from Act II Sc.10)
Secret Singing (Act I Sc.4)
War of the Beasts and the Birds, The (from Act I Sc.1)
Weep for Me (from Act II Sc.7)
Nocturne (Cut-In) [cut] from The Guests (aka Show) (1946-9)
o by the by song #1 in From Marion's Book (1960) (E.E. Cummings)
O Hymen! O Hymenee! (1927) #6 of 9 Walt Whitman songs
Ode to Reason (1938) solo song from Danton's Death (Georg Büchner)
Old Sayin's (1957) duet from Juno (1957-9) [Lehrman adaptation (new lyrics), 1974]
On a Day Like This solo & chorus from Juno (1957-9)
One Kind Word duet from Juno (1957-9)
open your heart song #7 in From Marion's Book (1960) (E.E. Cummings)
Orchestra Variations (Variations for Orchestra) (1934)
Orpheus (Lucius' Song) (1937) from Julius Caesar (Shakespeare) (1957-9)
Oscar and Leo duet from Regina (1946-9)
Outside Agitator solo song from No for an Answer (1937-40)
Parabola and Circula one-act opera (1929) (George Whitsett)
excerpt: Marijuana Ballet
Parade revue(1935) excerpt: Send for the Militia
Paradiddle [aka Rondino] from Percussion Music for the Piano (1928-9)
Pas de deux (Variation III) from The Guests (aka "Show") (1946-9)
Pavane from Children's Dances (1924)
Penny Candy male solo song from No for an Answer (1937-40)
Percussion Music for the Piano [aka Piano Percussion Music] (1929)
Persienne (1919) piano solo
Piano Concerto (Concerto for Piano and Orchestra) (1931)
Piano Solo (1933)
Piano Sonata (Sonata for Piano) (1927)
Pity me (Edna St. Vincent Millay) from Circular Canons (1925-7)
Polka [cut] from Regina (1949)
Pooch Procession from Chesapeake Bay Retriever (1936)
Prelude in C minor piano solo (1922)
Prize, The from Chesapeake Bay Retriever (1936)
Purest Kind of Guy ("Joe's Song") male solo [also with chorus] from No for an Answer (1937-40)
Quarrel Song (1957) duet [cut] from Juno Lehrman adaptation (new lyrics), 1974
Quiet Girl, A solo song (1942) Lehrman adaptation (new 2d verse), 1988
Rain Quartet from Regina (1946-9)
Regina 3-act Broadway opera (1946-9) after The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman
excerpts:
Away! (I:7a)
Ben's Entrance [cut from Act I]
Ben's Last (III:8)
Best Thing of All, The (I:7b)
Big Rich (I:5)
Birdie's [Second] Aria (Lionet, III:2)
Blues (II:2:5)
Certainly, Lord (Finale, III:9) Chinkypin (II:2:4)
Deedle Doodle (II:1:2) Gallantry (Small Talk Pt 2)
Gallop (II:2:7)
Greedy Girl (Ben's Aria, III:7)
Horace and Regina (II:1:6)
Horace's Death (III:8)
Horace's Entrance (II:1:4)
Horace's Last (III:4)
I Don't Know (I:6b,c)
Music, Music (Introduction and Birdie, I:1-2)
Oscar and Leo (II:1:3)
Rain Quartet (III:1)
Regina's (Final) Aria (III:5)
Scene-Change (Piano Solo in the style of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, II:1:8)
Sing Hubbard (II:2:2)
Small Talk (I:3)
Summer Day (II:1:6)
Waltz (Things, II:2:6)
Want to Join the Angels (Prologue: The Veranda)
What Will It Be? (Birdie and Zan, I:8)
Regina's (Final) Aria from Regina (1946-9)
Reuben Reuben 2-act urban folk opera (1949-55)
excerpts:
Be With Me
Hard to Say
Hills of Amalfi, The
Love at First Word
Monday Morning Blues
Miracle Song
Musky and Whiskey
Mystery of the Flesh
Never Get Lost
Rose Song, The
Spot, The
Such A Little While
Upstairsy
Rich, The duet from The Cradle Will Rock (1935-6)
Romantic Piece for Orchestra (1930)
Rondino [aka Paradiddle] from Percussion Music for the Piano (1928-9)
Rondo piano solo (1920)
Rosa-Sacco Duet from Sacco and Vanzetti (1959-63; Lehrman completion 2001)
Rose Song solo song from Reuben Reuben (1949-55)
Russian Language, The ("Chick Song") duet from Goloopchik (1945)
Round from Children's Dances (1924)
Sacco and Vanzetti 3-act opera (1959; Lehrman completion, 2001)
excerpts:
Act I Quartet Finale (Act I Sc.6)
Mary Donovan's Aria (Act III Sc.5)
Rosa-Sacco Duet (Act II Sc.3)
Sacco-Mrs. Evans Duet (Act II Sc.3)
Sacco-Rosa-Vanzetti Trio (Act II Sc.3)
Sacco's Aria, "With A Woman To Be" (Act II Sc. 5)
Sacco's "The Whole Shoe" Aria (Act II Sc.3)
Vanzetti's First Aria (Act I Sc. 2)
Vanzetti's Last Statement (Act III Sc.4)
Sad hours [aka In Dedication of "The Certain Hour"] (James Branch Cabell) from Circular Canons (1925-7)
Safe upon the solid rock (Edna St. Vincent Millay) from Circular Canons (1925-7)
Salt and the Spray, The from Chesapeake Bay Retrieve (1936)
San Gennaro from Reuben Reuben (1955) and This Is the Garden (1957)
Sarabande piano solo - or orchestra (1926)
Scene-Change (Piano Solo in the style of Louis Moreau Gottschalk) from Regina (1946-9)
Search thou my heart (Paul Laurence Dunbar) from Circular Canons (1925-7)
Secret Singing duet from No for an Answer (1937-40)
Scherzo (aka Bourgeois at Play) piano solo (1930)
Send for the Militia solo song from Parade (1935) Lehrman reconstruction, 1974
Serenade for String Quartet [aka Largo, Largo, Largo](1932) in 3 movements
Shepherd's Song (Shakespeare) #2 from 6 Elizabethan Songs (1958)
Shine, shine, shine! mvt 3 from "a word out of the sea" (1928) (Walt Whitman cantata)
Show ("The Guests") ballet (1946-8)
silent unday by silently not night song #4 in From Marion's Book (1960) (E.E. Cummings)
Silver Stream solo voice & piano (1918)
Sing Hubbard chorus from Regina (1946-9)
Sleep from Reuben Reuben (1955)
Slow March for Kit's Wedding, June 6, 1953
Small Talk septet from Regina (1946-9)
Smoking Glasses solo song (1938, Lehrman completion, 7/95)
Sonata for Piano (Piano Sonata) (1927)
Song solo song (Rupert Brooke) (1925; Lehrman completion, 2003)
Song of the Arrow from Reuben Reuben (1955)
Song of the D.P. ("Displaced") solo song from Goloopchik (1945)
Song of the Glove (Ben Jonson) #3 from 6 Elizabethan Songs (1958)
Song of the Ma female solo song [quasi-trio] from Juno (1957-9)
Songs of a Coon-Shouter [Children of Adam] #6-9 of Walt Whitman Songs (9)(1927-8)
So-o-o-o Beautiful male solo song from Goloopchik (1945)
Spanish Earth, The sound montage for film (with Virgil Thomson) (1937) (Joris Ivens)
Spot, The solo song from Reuben Reuben (1949-55)
Stay in My Arms solo song (1936)
Strike Song (1935)
String Quartet ("The Italian") (1930)
Such A Little While solo song from Reuben Reuben (1949-55)
Suicide Scene from I've Got the Tune (1937; Lehrman adaptation 1970)
Suite (1933) for piano solo
Summer Day from Regina (1949)
Surf and Seaweed film score, orchestral suite (1931) (Ralph Steiner)
Svarga ballet, pantomime suite for chamber orchestra (1925)
Sweet Is the Rose(Amoretti [Edmund Spenser]) #1 from 6 Elizabethan Songs (1958)
Tales of Malamud set of one-act operas (1962-4): Idiots First and The Magic Barrel
Lehrman completion includes Idiots First* (1973)
and new operas by Leonard Lehrman based on other works of Bernard Malamud:
Karla** (1974) based on "Notes from a Lady at a Dinner Party" and
Suppose A Wedding** (1996) based on the "scene of a play" of the same name
Thank You from Reuben Reuben (1955)
Then aria from The Magic Barrel (1962-4)
There Goes My Lovefrom Reuben Reuben (1955)
(There's a) Tree Back Home in Kansas song from Goloopchik (1945)
Things see "Waltz" from Regina
This Is the Garden choral cantata (1956-7) in 6 movements:
1. The Lex Express
2. I'm Ten and You'll See
3. Harlan Brown, Killed in the Street
4. Hymie Is a Poop
5. In Twos
6. San Gennaro
Three Sisters Who Did from Goloopchik (1946)
Thou art my lute (Paul Laurence Dunbar) from Circular Canons (1925-7)
Till, of a sudden mvt 2 from "a word out of the sea" (1928) (Walt Whitman cantata)
Toccata [aka Flam] from Percussion Music for the Piano (1928-9)
Torremaggiore Duet [aka Torremaggiore-Villafalletto Trio] from Sacco and Vanzetti (1959-63; Lehrman completion 2001)
Triple Sec one-act opera (1928) (Ronald Jeans)
Turn the Night Into Day unison chorus from Night Shift (1942)
Under the Sky aria from Idiots First (1962-4; Lehrman completion 1973)
until and i heard song #5 in From Marion's Book (1960) (E.E. Cummings)
Upstairsy solo song from Reuben Reuben (1949-55)
Valley Town film opera (1940) (Willard Van Dyke)
Valse piano solo (1923)
Vanzetti's First Aria from Sacco and Vanzetti (1959-63; Lehrman completion 2001)
Vanzetti's Last Statement from Sacco and Vanzetti (1959-63; Lehrman completion 2001)
Variations for Orchestra (Orchestra Variations) (1934)
Vendor's Song (Shakespeare) #6 from 6 Elizabethan Songs (1958)
Very Moment of Love, The [aka Moment of Love] from Reuben Reuben
Waltz ("Things") female solo from Regina (1946-9)
Want to Join the Angels (Prologue: The Veranda) chorus from Regina (1946-9)
War Department Manual, Volume 7, Part 3 (1935) song sketch for The Cradle Will Rock
War of the Beasts and the Birds, The chorus from No for an Answer (1937-40)
War Song*** solo song (Dorothy Parker) (1945; Lehrman completion 7/95)
Water Trial from Chesapeake Bay Retriever (1936)
Waterfall: Barcarolle op. 4 no. 1 (1918) piano solo
Way You Are, The solo song (1935)
We Can Be Proud male quartet from Juno (1957-9)
Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream (1958) [reuse of "Slow March for Kit's Wedding"]
Wedding Piece for Joyce and Stephen piano solo (1955)
Weep for Me solo song from No for an Answer (1937-40)
We're Alive chorus from Juno (1957-9)
what if a much of a which of a wind song #3 in From Marion's Book (1960) (E.E. Cummings)
What Is the Stars? (1957) trio [cut] from Juno [Lehrman reconstruction, 1974]
What Weeping Face(1925) #4 of 9 Walt Whitman songs
What Will It Be? (Birdie and Zan) solo song from Regina (1946-9)
What's the Matter with Me? solo song (1929)
when life is quite through with song #2 in Is 5 and in From Marion's Book (1960) (E.E. Cummings)
Where? [aka Lament] from Juno (1957-9)
Where Love Is Life solo song (1920)
Whilst Youthful Sports solo song (Shakespeare) (1958)
Whitman, Walt, Songs (9): [see also "a word out of the sea"]
1. As If a Phantom Caress'd Me
2. After the Dazzle of Day
3. Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
4. What Weeping Face
5. Gods
6. O Hymen! O Hymenee!
7. As Adam
8. I Am He
9. Ages and Ages
Who Knows? ("Let's Be Blue") solo song (1938) [Lehrman arr. for duet 1995]
Who Will Close the Door? duet [or solo] from Idiots First (1963; Lehrman completion, 1973)
Whole Shoe, The tenor (Sacco's) aria from Sacco and Vanzetti (1959-63; Lehrman completion, 2001)
With a Woman to Be tenor (Sacco's) aria from Sacco and Vanzetti (1959-63; Lehrman completion, 2001)
word out of the sea, a (1928) Walt Whitman cantata for women's voices
movements:
3. Shine, shine, shine!
4. Till, of a sudden
5. Blow, blow, blow!
Workers' Kids of the World Unite ("Children's Cantata")(1934)
excerpt: A Child Writes a Letter
Would that we might vanish (Lady Murasaki [Shikibu]) from Circular Canons (1925-7)
yes is a pleasant country song #6 in From Marion's Book (1960) (E.E. Cummings)
you are like the snow song #5 in Is 5 (1929) (E.E. Cummings)
You Poor Thing female quartet from Juno (1957-9)
Young Son, The from Cain (1930)
You're the Girl [cut] from Juno (1957-9)
Zipperfly ("The New Suit") solo song (1945)
*Copyright by Bernard Malamud, Leonard Lehrman and the Estate of Marc Blitzstein
**Copyright by Leonard Lehrman and the Estate of Bernard Malamud
***Copyright by the Estate of Dorothy Parker and the Estate of Marc Blitzstein
All others copyright by The Estate of Marc Blitzstein
Words by Marc Blitzstein to Music by Others
Leonard Bernstein
"Dream With Me" from Peter Pan (1950)
"There Goes What's-His-Name" (1949) dummy lyric to tune that became "Somewhere" in West Side Story
"Danny Boy" ("Londonderry Air") parody
Paul Dessau
Mother Courage (1956-62) play, with songs, by Bertolt Brecht
Hanns Eisler
"On Killing" ("Über das Töten") [with Eva Goldbeck] (1935) on poem by Bertolt Brecht
Jacques Offenbach
3 Songs from Operettas: "Canary Song," "Hermosa's Song," "Duettino" (1955)
Serge Prokofiev
Scene from The Duenna (after Sheridan) translation (1947)
Ned Rorem
rewrite of libretto to opera The Robbers (1953) after Chaucer
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Duet - for Goloopchik (1945): translation of "In mitten des Balles" ("Sred' Shoomnovo Balla"), op. 38 no. 3
Giuseppe Verdi
La Traviata Act I translation (1952-54)
Kurt Weill
Magnet City (1958) translation (3 drafts) of opera with words by Bertolt Brecht
The Threepenny Opera (1952) translation/adaptation of play, with songs, by Bertolt Brecht
including:
"Ballad of Mack the Knife," "Morning Anthem," "Instead-Of Song," "Wedding Song," "Pirate Jenny," "Army Song," "Love Song" (duet), "Ballad of Dependency," "Melodrama and Polly's Song," "Ballad of the Easy Life," "The World Is Mean," "Barbara Song," "Tango-Ballad," "Jealousy Duet," "How to Survive," "Useless Song," "Solomon Song," "Call from the Grave," "Death Message," "Finale: The Mounted Messenger"
