American Song Recital: Works of Bernstein, Hundley, Bowles & Other Composers

American art song American art song has a color and an appeal all its own. Departing from the constraints of late nineteenth-century European traditions to draw from elements of American culture including folk music, jazz, and Broadway composers of American art song have created a large body of literature over the last century that has won great popularity with singers and audiences alike. While requiring the same vocal gifts demanded by Strauss and Wolf, there is an ease to this genre (abetted, perhaps, by the accessibility of texts in English) that may trick listeners into thinking they are not hearing lieder

All Recordings Composer John Corigliano

Lucia Swarts: albums, songs, playlists

Chandos Records

Lauren Wagner

No. 14 in Sony's Leonard Bernstein Royal Edition is a CD of American compositions. Leonard Bernstein conducts the New York Philharmonic in his own

Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story; Candide Overture / Gershwin: An American in Paris; Rhapsody in Blue Royal Edition No. 14

Resources Hampsong Foundation

Someone to Watch over Me - song and lyrics by George Gershwin, Lauren Wagner, Fred Weldy

Leonard Bernstein: In Focus

Lucia Swarts: albums, songs, playlists

Chandos Records