Final Songs for baritone and piano Op.21 (1987) c.10'00"

I. When death comes and whispers to me (Rabindranath Tagore)
II. Many red devils ran from my heart (Stephen Crane)
III. Death by Drums (Robert Graves)
IV. Listening to Comrade Shostakovitch on the Day of His Death (Rod Jellima)
V. Farewell Symphony (Randall Jarrell)
VI. There was a man with tongue of wood (Stephen Crane)

Dedicated to Vincent Persichetti

First performed on November 23rd, 1987 at CAMI Hall in New York City by Jeffrey Morrisey, baritone with the composer at the piano

RECORDINGS

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REVIEWS

“…a pair of Lowell Liebermann’s settings of poems by Randall Jarrell were a revelation, a wonderfully sensitive marriage of text and music that Graham made quite spellbinding.”
The Guardian, UK

“She also sang a pair of songs by Lowell Liebermann, a composer not yet forty, and did so with a poignancy that was close to heartbreaking.”
The New Criterion