2 Poems op. 32

Contents: Albeniz: Orientale-Tango, Op. 164, No. 2 • Bartok: Bagatelle, Bear Dance, Valse (Ma mie qui danse), Op. 6, No. 14 • Bellini: Pinocchio • Bloch: Chanty (Poems of the Sea) • John Alden Carpenter: Impromptu • Chabrier: Habanera • Chavez: Prelude (Ten Preludes) • Debussy: Reverie, Valse Romantique • D'Indy: Aarau (Waltz from Helvetia), Op. 17, No. 1; Laufenburg (Waltz from Helvetia), Op. 17, No. 3; Le Chant des Bruyeres (The Song of the Heath) • de Falla: Serenata Andaluza • Farwell: Sourwood Mountain, Op. 78, No. 3 • Faure: Berceuse, Op. 56, No. 1; Impromptu, Op. 31, No. 2 • Fibich: Impression, Op. 44, No. 32 • Lukas Foss: Grotesque Dance • Godowsky: Nocturnal Tangier • Grainger: Spoon River • Granados: Rondalla Aragonesa • Griffes: The White Peacock • Guion: The Harmonica, Player (Alley Tunes) • Roy Harris: Little Suite • Krenek: The Moon Rises, Op. 83, No. 4 • Palmgren: Spring Night, Op. 22, No. 8 • Pinto: Marcha do Pequeno Polegar (Tom Thumb's March) • Prokofiev; Gavotte, Op. 12, No. 2; Marche, Op. 12, No. 1; Vision Fugitive, Op. 22, No. 16 • Rachmaninoff: Elegie, Op. 3, No. 1; Prelude in E Flat, Op. 23, No. 6 • Ravel: Jeux d'Eau; Pavane Pour une Infante defunte • Rebikov: Les Demons s'amusent • Reger: Humoresque, Op. 79a, No. 2 • Respighi: Notturno • Satie: Gymnopedie • Scriabin: Mazurka, Op. 25, No. 4; Poeme, Op. 69, No. 1 • Shostakovitch: Polka (L'Age d'or, Op. 22) • Sibelius: Romance, Op. 24, No. 9 • Soro: La Hiladora (The Spinner) • R. Strauss: An einsamer Quelle (By the Lonely Spring), Op. 9, No. 2; Traumerei (Revery), Op. 9, No. 4 • Stravinsky: Etude, Op. 7, No. 2 • Szymanowski: Etude, Op. 4, No. 3 • Thuille: Gavot.

'The Mask' is a cycle of five poems by various authors set to music and arranged for SATB chorus and piano accompaniment. Composed in 1990 by William Bolcom, these settings present a challenge to both the choir and the pianist. Available: SATB.