Music

Category
Difficulty
Instrumentation
Title Poet/Lyricist Instrumentation Difficulty
Giver of Stars, The Amy Lowell (1874-1925) Piano
Advanced
Go Out In Joy Isaiah 55:12 Piano, Hand Clapping
Moderate, Advanced
Herbst Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Piano, (in Lieu Of Piano)
Moderate, Advanced
Here Wendell Berry (b.1934) Piano, Violin
Moderate
Hodie Vespers Antiphon for Christmas Day A Cappella
Advanced
How Did the Rose Hafiz (14th c.) translated by Daniel Ladinsky Piano
Moderate
Hymn of Grateful Praise Folliot S. Pierpont (1835-1917) Piano
Moderate
I Am Catherine DeVink Piano, Flute, Violin, Cello
Moderate
I Am a Ruby Zay Khay Sheen (born Zahida Khatun Sherwani, 1894-1922) Piano, Oboe
Moderate
I Dream a World Langston Hughes (1902-1967) Piano
Moderate
I Lift My Eyes Psalm 121 and Thich Naht Hanh Piano
Moderate
I Look Long and Long Walt Whitman (1819-1992) Piano
Moderate
Ich lebe mein Leben Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Singing Bowl, Bassoon
Advanced
Illumina le tenebre Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) A Cappella
Moderate
Invincible Anonymous & Albert Camus, adapted by the composer Piano
Moderate
Invitation to the Dance Hafiz (14th c.) translated by Daniel Ladinsky Pitched Bottles, Double Bass, Hard Shoe Dancer
Advanced
It Is Happiness (3 mvts) Mary Oliver (1935-2019) Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, Violin, Cello, Piano
Moderate
It Takes a Village West African adage adapted by Joan Szymko Hand Percussion, Shaker
Easy, Moderate
Lay Me Low Sister Addah Z. Potter of the New Lebanon, New York, Shaker community A Cappella
Easy, Moderate
Let the Children Come Adaptation of Mark 10:13-16 by Joan Szymko Piano
Moderate
Lifting As We Climb libretto conceived and created by Joan Szymko (from various sources) Piano, Alto Saxophone, Drum Kit, Set Of 6 (1 Per Speaker)
Moderate
Light, Beauty, Peace Chinese Proverb Piano
Moderate
Like a Mountain Music and lyrics by Naomi Littlebear Morena, arr. Szymko Piano
Moderate
Listen Closely Music and lyrics by Steven Walters, arr. Szymko Piano
Moderate
Lo Lefached Rebbe Nachman of Breslov Percussion
Moderate, Advanced
Look Out Wendell Berry (b.1934) Piano
Moderate
Lorica St. Patrick (attributed) Piano, Flute
Moderate
Love Bears All Things 1 Corinthians 13:7-8 Piano, Violin, Cello
Moderate
maggie and milly and molly and may E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) Piano
Moderate, Advanced
Make Ready Your Beauty Elsa Gidlow (1898-1986) Piano
Moderate
Malala quotes by Malala Yousafzai adapted by Szymko Hand Percussion
Moderate
Myr, Zaraz Peace, Now (МИР 3APA3) Piano
Easy
Nada te turbe Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) Cello
Moderate
No Time Not to Love Deena Metzger, Joan Szymko Piano, Strings, Violin, Cello
Moderate, Advanced
Nothing But Mud William Orpen (1878-1931) A Cappella
Advanced
Nothing Short of Grace Joan Szymko
Easy, Moderate
O Lux Beatissima From the sequence, Veni Sancte Spiritus (12th c) and the Hymn, Veni Creator Spiritus (10th c.) A Cappella
Advanced
Only Light, Only Love Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. A Cappella
Moderate
Oración por la Paz (Prayer for Peace) Anonymous A Cappella
Moderate
Organize, Agitate, Educate! Joan Szymko after quotes by Sarah Grimke, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth,
Carrie Catt, Anna Julia Cooper, Lucy Stone
Moderate
Our Common Prayer Parker J. Palmer Piano
Easy, Moderate
Peace Like a River Traditional, African American Piano
Moderate
Peace of Wild Things, The Wendell Berry (b.1934) Piano
Moderate
Pendulum Amanda Harter and Christopher Behrens
Quite Regularly Gay Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) Piano
Moderate
Reaching Back from Here Nancy Wood Piano
Moderate
Red and Green Maddy Prior Piano, Drum
Moderate
Remembering Joan Borysenko (b.1945) Oboe, Cello
Moderate, Advanced
River Text adapted by the composer from "Hopi Prophesy" and quote by Edward E. Hale (1822-1909) Piano
Moderate, Advanced
Roses, The Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) Accordion
Moderate