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Performer: Paul Sperry

BYWAYS OF FRENCH SONG: (Review by Joel Kasow)

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AYRES, FREDERICK: Take, O Take Those Lips Away. Where the Bee Sucks (Review by Robert McColley)

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BARBER, SAMUEL: Solitary Hotel (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz)

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BARTÓK: Panasz (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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BEACH, AMY CHENEY: Arlette. Take, O Take Those Lips Away. O Mistress Mine (Review by Robert McColley)

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BEASER: Quicksilver (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz)

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BEASER: Seven Deadly Sins (Review by William Wians)

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BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN: Peggy's Daughter (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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BERG, ALBAN: Eufrides Before the Gates of Tymen (Review by John Ditsky)

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BERG, ALBAN: Six Poems by Frank O'Hara (Review by William Wians)

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BILLINGS: David's Lamentation (arr. Siegmeister) (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz)

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BOLCOM, WILLIAM: George. Waitin' (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz)

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BOWLES, PAUL: Once a Lady Was Here. Three. Letter to Freddy. April Fool Baby. Baby, Baby (Review by Dean P. Suzuki)

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BOWLES, PAUL: Once a Lady Was Here. Three. Letter to Freddy. April Fool Baby. Baby, Baby (Review by Henry Fogel)

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BRAHMS, JOHANNES: In stiller Nacht (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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BRITTEN: Avenging and Bright (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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BUCK, DUDLEY: The Capture of Bacchus (Review by Robert McColley)

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CADMAN, CHARLES WAKEFIELD: From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water (Review by Robert McColley)

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CANTELOUBE: Ballerò (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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CARPENTER, JOHN ALDEN: Looking-Glass River. Dansons la gigue (Review by Robert McColley)

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CARTER, ELLIOTT: The Rose Family. Dust of Snow (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz)

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CHADWICK, GEORGE WHITEFIELD: Adversity. Euthanasia. The Danza (Review by Robert McColley)

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CHANLER, THEODORE: O Mistress Mine. These, My Ophelia. The Doves. Memory. I Rise When You Enter (Review by Dean P. Suzuki)

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CHANLER, THEODORE: O Mistress Mine. These, My Ophelia. The Doves. Memory. I Rise When You Enter (Review by Henry Fogel)

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CIPULLO: Rain (Review by William Zagorski)

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CIPULLO: The Land of Nod . (Review by William Zagorski)

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CLOUGH-LEIGHTER: It Was a Lover and His Lass (Review by Robert McColley)

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COPLAND, AARON: As It Fell Upon a Day (Review by John D. Wiser)

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COPLAND, AARON: As It Fell Upon a Day (Review by Richard Burke)

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COPLAND, AARON: The Dodger (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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COWARD: Someday I’ll Find You. A Bar on the Piccola Marina. World Weary. Uncle Harry. I Travel Alone. That is the End of the News. Bright Was the Day. Nina. If Love Were All. Mrs. Worthington (Review by Lynn René Bayley)

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COWELL, HENRY: Vocalise (Review by John D. Wiser)

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COWELL, HENRY: Vocalise (Review by Richard Burke)

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COWELL, HENRY: Who Wrote This Fiendish Rite of Spring (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz)

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DOUGHERTY: The Bird and the Beast. Love in the Dictionary (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz)

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DUKE, JOHN: Bells in the Rain (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz)

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FALLA, MANUEL DE: Tus ojillos negros (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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FARWELL, ARTHUR: Eleven Poems of Emily Dickinson (Review by Henry Fogel)

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FARWELL, ARTHUR: I'm Nobody. Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers. The Level Bee. The Butterfly. Summer's Armies. Presentiment. The Grass so Little Has to Do. Aristocracy. Tie the Strings to My Life. Papa Above! Ample Makes this Bed (Review by Dean P. Suzuki)

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FLANAGAN: Horror Movie (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz)

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FLANDERS/SWANN: Misalliance. The Gnu. The Sloth. Ill Wind. Friendly Duet. The Gasman Cometh. The Hippo. The Armadillo. Have Some Madeira, M’Dear (Review by Lynn René Bayley)

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FOOTE, ARTHUR: It Was a Lover and His Lass. O Swallow, Swallow Flying South (Review by Robert McColley)

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FOSTER, STEPHEN: No One to Love (arr. Swensen) (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz)

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GIDEON: The Seasons of Time-Songs of Tanka Poems of Ancient Japan (Review by John Ditsky)

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GIDEON: Voices From Elysium (Review by Richard Burke)

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GIDEON: Voices from Elysium (Review by John D. Wiser)

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GILBERT, HENRY F.: The Owl. Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred. Pirate Song (Review by Robert McColley)

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GINASTERA, ALBERTO: Chacarera (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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GRAINGER: Willow, Willow (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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GRETCHANINOV: Kuiliap (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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GRIEG, EDVARD: Go kvell, mi Mari, har ae e (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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GRIFFES, CHARLES T.: Auf ihrem Grab. Wohl lag ich einst in Gram und Schmerz (Review by Robert McColley)

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GRIFFES, CHARLES T.: The Lament of Ian the Proud (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz)

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GRUENBERG: Animals and Insects (Review by William Wians)

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HAGEN, DARON: Concerto for Brass Quintet. Serenade. Songs of Madness and Sorrow (Review by John Story)

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HAYDN, FRANZ JOSEPH: Maggie Lauder (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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HENZE, HANS WERNER: Los poetas Cubanos ya no sueñan (Padilla). Prison Song (Ho Chi Minh). Keiner oder Alle (Brecht). The Electric Cop (Cruz). The Distant Drum (Hernton). 42 Schulkinder (Fried). Caino (Santis). Il Pasi (To-bino). Heimkehr (Heine). Grecia 1970 (Ungaretti). Legende von der Entstehung des Buches Taoteking (Brecht). Gedanken eines Revuemädchens während des Entkleidungsaktes (Brecht). Das wirkliche Messer (Enzensberger). Recht und Billig (Fried). Patria (Bamet). Screams—interlude (Smith). The Worker (Thomas). Para aconsejar a una dama (Padilla). Roses and Revolutions (Randall). Vermutung über Hessen (F. C. Delius). Schluss (Katsaros/Enzensberger). Das Blumenfest (Enzensberger) (Review by ROGER DETTMER)

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HENZE, HANS WERNER: Voices (Review by ROGER DETTMER)

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HENZE, HANS WERNER: Voices (Review by James H. North)

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HUMMEL, JOHANN NEPOMUK: For the Sake o' Somebody (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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HUNDLEY, RICHARD: Ballad on Queen Ann's Death. I Do. Come Ready and See Me. Bartholomew Green. Sweet Suffolk Owl. Spring. Three Epitaphs (Review by Dean P. Suzuki)

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HUNDLEY, RICHARD: Ballad on Queen Anne's Death. Bartholomew Green. Come Ready and See Me. Sweet Suffolk. Spring. Waterblrd. I Do. Isaac Greentree. On a Wife. The Astronomers. Some Sheep Are Loving (Review by Henry Fogel)

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HUNDLEY, RICHARD: Four Songs (Review by John Ditsky)

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INDY, VINCENT d': Dans mon pays, le rossignol y chante (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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IVES, CHARLES: He Is There. Weil' auf mir. The Cage. My Native Land. The Children's Hour. Old Home Day“. Soliloquy. Ilmenau. The See'r. Autumn“. Pictures. Walt Whitman. Mists. Walking. A Farewell to Land. Luck and Work. Camp Meeting. Charlie Rutledge. His Exaltation. Watchman! Vote for Names. From Lincoln the Great Commoner. Like a Sick Eagle. From The Swimmers. At the River. Requiem. Afterglow. General William Booth Enters into Heaven. To Edith. Religion. The New River. Down East. The Things Our Fathers Loved. In Flanders Fields. Tom Sails Away. They Are There (Review by James H. North)

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IVES, CHARLES: I Travelled among Unknown Men. Allegro. Feldeinsamkeit. Harpalus. The Light That Is Felt. Du alte Mutter (1894). God Bless and Keep Thee. Du alte Mutter (1900). Slugging a Vampire. Tarrant Moss. Karen. Dreams. The World's Highway. Because of You. Romanzo di Central Park. Because Thou Art.1 Knew and Loved a Maid“. Her Gown Was of Vermilion Silk. Flag Song. Spring Song. Ich Grolle Nicht. Widmung. Wie Melodien zieht es mir. There Is a Lane. Élégie. Evidence. Berceuse. Rough Wind. The South Wind. No More. On Judge's Walk. A Night Thought. The Song of the Dead. Where the Eagle“ Tolerance. The Love Song of Har Dyal. Omens and Oracles. Those Evening Bells. Frühlingslied (Review by James H. North)

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IVES, CHARLES: Slow March. There Is a Certain Garden. In Autumn. Friendship''. A Song for Anything. Canon. Rock of Ages. Ballad from Rosamunde'. At Parting. Circus Band. When Stars Are in the Quiet Skies (Country Celestial). Mirage. An Old Flame. Qu'il m'irait bien''. Chanson de Florian. My Native Land. World's Wanderers'. Abide with Me. Christmas Carol. Scotch Lullaby'. Through Night and Day. A Perfect Day. A Night Song. In the Alley. My Lou Jennine. William Will. From “Amphion“. Nature's Way'. Far from My Heavenly Home. Ein Ton'. Marie. Song. Memories'. Waltz. Songs My Mother Taught Me. Son of a Gambolier (Review by James H. North)

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IVES, CHARLES: Spring Song. The Circus Band (Review by Robert McColley)

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IVES, CHARLES: The Complete Songs, Volume Four (Review by James H. North)

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IVES, CHARLES: The Complete Songs, Volume One (Review by James H. North)

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IVES, CHARLES: The Complete Songs, Volume Three (Review by James H. North)

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IVES, CHARLES: The Complete Songs, Volume Two (Review by James H. North)

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IVES, CHARLES: The Innate. The Collection'. Premonitions. Grantchester. Thoreau. West London'. Serenity. On the Counter. Hymn'. August. September. December. Cradle Song. From Paracelsus. Disclosure'. Maple Leaves. La Fede. The Indians. Two Slants (Review by James H. North)

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JACOBS-BOND, CARRIE: The Half-Minute Songs (Review by Robert McColley)

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JANÁČEK, LEOŠ: Neumremja na zemi (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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KAGEL: Anagramas (Review by John Story)

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KODÁLY: verbunk (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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KRAFT, WILLIAM: Gallery '83. Des Imagistes. Quartet for the Love of Time. The Sublime and the Beautiful (Review by Mike Silverton)

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KRAFT, WILLIAM: Mélange (Review by Scott Wheeler)

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KRAFT, WILLIAM: The Sublime and the Beautiful. Gallery '83. Des Imagistes (Review by Kyle Gann)

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KUULA: Hae pois vaan sor-mukses (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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LAURIDSEN, MORTEN: And What of Love. When Frost Moves Fast (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz)

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LONDON: Peter Quince at the Clavier. (Review by John Story)

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LOOMIS, HARVEY WORTHINGTON: Hark! Hark! the Lark (Review by Robert McColley)

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LUENING: No Jerusalem But This. Divertimento for Brass Quintet (Review by James H. North)

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MACDOWELL, EDWARD: Long Ago, Sweetheart Mine. A Maid Sings Light (Review by Robert McColley)

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MADERNA: Satyricon . Ages (Review by Alex Ross)

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MADERNA: Satyricon—Opéra sur un livret polyglotte de Bruno Maderna d'après Pétrone (Review by William Zagorski)

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MUSTO: Encounters (Review by David Denton)

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MUSTO: Shadow of the Blues (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz)

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NEVIN: Oh! That We Two Were Maying. One Spring Morning. Orsola's Song. Nocturne. Narcissus (arr. Martel) (Review by Robert McColley)

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NIN: Paño Murciano (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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OBRADORS: Del Cabello mas sutil (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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PAINE: Early Spring-Time (Review by Robert McColley)

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PAULUS: Bittersuite. All My Pretty Ones. Artsongs (Review by James H. North)

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POULENC, FRANCIS: 2 Poèmes de Louis Aragon (C. Fêtes galantes). Le Disparu. Bleuet. La Grenouillière. Voyage à Paris. Hôtel. Montparnasse. Les Chemins de l’amour. Ce doux petit visage. Dans le jardin d’Anna. Dernier poème. L’Offrande. Paul et Virginie. Rosemonde. Madrigal. Tu vois le feu du soir. Le Pont. Sérénade. Avant le cinéma. Monsieur Sans-Souci. Main dominée par le coeur. Mais mourir. La Souris. Les Gars qui vont à la fête (Review by Joel Kasow)

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POULENC, FRANCIS: Le Travail du Peintre. Métamorphoses. Parisiana. Tel jour telle nuit (Review by Joel Kasow)

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POULENC, FRANCIS: Songs (Review by Joel Kasow)

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POULENC, FRANCIS: Wianek (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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PROKOFIEV, SERGEI: Chemetz (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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RANDS: Canti Lunatici'. Canti Del Sole. Obbligato (Review by Mike Silverton)

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RANDS: Canti del Sole. Canti Lunatici (Review by Kyle Gann)

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RANDS: Canti del Sole. Canti Lunatici (Review by Kyle Gann)

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RAVEL: Chanson italienne (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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RESPIGHI, OTTORINO: When the Kye Come Hame (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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RIETI: Four Poems of Max Jacob (Review by John Ditsky)

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RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Vspomni (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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RODRIGO: Vos me matasteis (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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RODRIGUEZ, ROBERT XAVIER: Meditation. Chronies. Sonatina d'Estate (Review by Scott Wheeler)

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ROREM: For Poulenc. Spring (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz)

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SCHOENBERG, ARNOLD: Mein Herz ist mir gemenget (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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SCHUMAN, WILLIAM: Orpheus with His Lute (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz)

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SEEGER, RUTH CRAWFORD: 3 Songs (Review by Richard Burke)

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SILVESTROV, VALENTIN: Spectre. (Review by John Story)

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SMITH, LARRY ALAN: Songs of the Silence (Review by William Wians)

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SMITH, LARRY ALAN: The Scrolls (Review by Scott Wheeler)

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SOUSA: You'll Miss Lots of Fun When You're Married (Review by Robert McColley)

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STOCKHAUSEN, KARL-HEINZ: Donnerstag aus Licht (Review by Benjamin Pernick)

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STOCKHAUSEN, KARL-HEINZ: Donnerstag aus Licht (Review by Benjamin Pernick)

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STOCKHAUSEN, KARL-HEINZ: Donnerstag aus Licht (Review by Kyle Gann)

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SWENSON: The Lepidoptera Waltz (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz)

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TALMA: Diadem (Review by John D. Wiser)

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TALMA: Diadem (Review by Benjamin Pernick)

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TALMA: Diadem (Review by Richard Burke)

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TALMA: Leap Before You Look. Pied Beauty. Rain Song. Ben (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz)

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TALMA: Terre de France (Review by William Wians)

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TAYLOR, DEEMS: La petite robe (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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THOMÉ: Anais (Review by Paul Turok)

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THOMSON, VIRGIL: A Prayer to St. Catherine. There Is a Garden In Her Face. English Usage. Take, o Take Those Lips Away. Preclosllla (Review by Henry Fogel)

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THOMSON, VIRGIL: My Shepherd Will Supply My Need (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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TIERSOT: L'amour de moi (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Basket of Eggs (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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VILLA-LOBOS, HEITOR: Teirú (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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WARSHAWSKI: Die mesinke ojsgegeben (Review by Raymond Beegle)

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WEBER, CARL MARIA VON: Mourn, Mourn (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz)

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WEILL, KURT: Dirge for Two Veterans (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz)

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WEISGALL: My Sweet Old Etcetera (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz)

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WELCHER, DAN: Evening Scenes (Review by Scott Wheeler)

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WILSON, RICHARD: Eclogue. The Ballad of Longwood Glen (Review by Paul Turok)

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WILSON, RICHARD: String Quartet No. 3. Ecologue. The Ballad of Longwood Glen. Concert Piece for Violin and Piano*. Music for Solo Flute. Music for Violin and Cello (Review by Mike Silverton)

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WILSON, RICHARD: Three Painters (Review by William Wians)

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XENAKIS, IANNIS: Nuits (Review by John Story)

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YANNAY: At the End of the Parade (Review by Paul Turok)

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YESTON: I Don't Wanna Rock and Roll (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz)

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