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Daron Hagen (1961-     )

Daron Hagen, composerThe music of Daron Aric Hagen is notable for its warm lyricism, but his style defies easy categorization. While his works demonstrate fluency with a range of twentieth century compositional techniques, those procedures are secondary to his exploitation and expansion of the possibilities of tonal harmony, giving his music an immediacy that makes it appealing to a wide spectrum of audiences. His music is broadly eclectic, drawing on a variety of styles as diverse as jazz, Broadway, Latin music, Italian verismo, and soft rock. While Hagen works with consistent success in a number of genres, the foundation of his oeuvre is the art song, a form that highlights his melodic and dramatic talents, exemplified by Dear Youth (based on American Civil War stories) and Songs of Madness and Sorrow. His teacher Ned Rorem famously stated of him, "Daron is music." Born in Milwaukee , Wisconsin, Hagen began his musical studies at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, continuing his education at the University of Wisconsin, the Curtis Institute of Music, and the Juilliard School. Hagen's teachers include such prominent composers as Ned Rorem, Joseph Schwantner, David Diamond, Witold Lutoslawski, and Leonard Bernstein. Already known for song cycles composed in the 1980s that demonstrated his gift for lyrical and dramatically astute text setting, Hagen turned to opera with Shining Brow (1990-1992), a musical evocation of the life of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, with a libretto by poet Paul Muldoon. Other stage works include Vera of Las Vegas (a "nightmare cabaret opera"), Bandanna (an opera scored for wind ensemble, loosely based on Othello), and he has received a commission from the Seattle Opera for a new work, Amelia. Other commissions include pieces for the New York Philharmonic, the Curtis Institute of Music, the University of Wisconsin, the King's Singers, pianist Gary Graffman, violinist Jaime Laredo, and cellist Sharon Robinson. In the late '80s and throughout the '90s, Hagen gained a reputation as an enthusiastic mentor, teaching at Princeton University, the Curtis Institute, Bard College, New York University, and the City College of New York. Hagen's numerous honors and awards include the Bearns Prize from Columbia University, the Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Opera America's "Next Stage" Award, a Rockefeller Foundation Grant, and the Barlow International Composition Prize for Chamber Music.
-  AllMusic

COMPOSITIONS                                                            Hagen Links     ~ ~ ~     Works by Genre    ~ ~ ~    Hagen on Hagen
Prayer for Peace, string orchestra (1981)
Echo's Songs, [song cycle] (11 songs), voice and piano (1982)
Stanzas, cello and chamber orchestra (1982)
Wind Songs, oboe, bassoon and horn (1982)
Andersonville Overture, orchestra (1982)
A Walt Whitman Requiem, chorus and string orchestra (1984)
Suite for Solo Violin (1984)
Piano Trio No. 1, "Trio Concertante", violin, cello and piano (1984)
Divertimento, viola, harp and vibraphone (1984)
Three Silent Things, song cycle (10 songs), soprano and piano quartet (1984)
Sonata No. 1, flute and piano (1985)
String Quartet No. 1 (1985)
Symphony No. 1, orchestra (1985)
Suite for Solo Cello (1985)
Occasional Notes, organ (1985)
The Voice Within (3 songs), chorus and piano (1985) [text: Dag Hammarskjold; 12th c. liturgical text]
    - Vägen, chorus and piano (1985) [text: Hammarskjold] [from "The Voice Within", 1985]
Suite for Solo Viola (1986)
Piano Trio No. 2, "J'entends", violin, cello and piano (1986)
Love Songs, song cycle (8 songs), voice and piano (1986)
Grand Line: a Tribute to Leonard Bernstein, orchestra (1986)
Rapture and Regret (2 songs), soprano, cello and piano (1987)
Higher, Louder, Faster!, etude for solo cello (1987)
The Presence Absence Makes, flute and string quartet (1988)
Little Prayers (5 songs), chorus (1989)
Jot!, clarinet, marimba and piano (1989)
Harp Trio, flute, viola and harp (1989)
Sennets, Cortege, and Tuckets, band (1990)
Muldoon Songs, song cycle (7 songs) voice and piano (1990) [text: Paul Muldoon]
Symphony No. 2, orchestra (1990)
Heliotrope, chamber orchestra (1990)
Philharmonia, orchestra (1991)
Shining Brow, opera in 2 acts with prologue (1991) [libretto: Paul Muldoon]
    - Taliesin: Choruses from "Shining Brow", chorus and orchestra (1991/1995)
Dear Youth, song cycle (8 songs), soprano, flute and piano (1991) ["Miniature Folk Opera"]
Fire Music, orchestra (1992)
Everything Must Go!, brass quintet (1993)
Lost in Translation, song cycle (5 songs) voice, oboe, cello and harpsichord (1993)
The Elephant's Child, children's opera (1994) [libretto: by the composer after Kipling]
Concerto for Flügelhorn and Wind (or String) Ensemble (1994)
Joyful Music, mezzo-soprano, chorus and orchestra (1994)
Concerto for Horn, horn, winds and string orchestra (1994)
Music from Shining Brow, brass quintet (1994)
Four Poems of Blake, chorus and piano (1994)
Concerto for Brass Quintet (1995)
The Waking Father, song cycle (12 songs), 6 male voices (1995) [text: Paul Muldoon]
Litany of Reconciliation, chorus (1996)
Hosanna, chorus (1996)
Lullay, chorus (1996)
At Bethlehem Proper, tenors, basses and cello (1996)
God Rest Ye / Emmanuel, chorus and two cellos (1996)
O Come, Emmanuel, chorus (1996)
Once in Royal David's City, treble voices and solo cello (or string orchestra) (1996/2006)
Silent Night, chorus, cello and synthesizer (or vibraphone) (1996)
What Child is This?, chorus (1996)
An Overture to Vera, 14 instruments (1996)
Stewards of Your Bounty, trumpet, chorus and orchestra (1996)
Built Up Dark, strings, winds and brass (1996)
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (or Wind Orchestra) (1996)
Merrill Songs, song cycle (7 songs), voice and piano (1996) [text: James Merrill]
Sussex Carol, cello (1996)
Vera of Las Vegas, nightmare cabaret in 1 act (1996; fp/stage, 2003) [1997?]
Songs of Madness and Sorrow, dramatic cantata, tenor & mixed ensemble (1997)[libretto: Hagen, after various sources]
Duo for Violin and Cello (1997)
Hope, chorus and any 3 single line instruments (1997) [text: Emily Dickinson]
Gandhi's Children, treble voices and handbells (1997)
Night, Again, band (1998)
Silent Night (8 mvts), chorus, cello and percussion (1998)
Symphony No. 3, orchestra (1998; rev. 2010)
Bandanna, opera in 2 acts with prologue (1998) [libretto: Paul Muldoon]
    - Bandanna Overture, band (1999)
    - Prelude and Prayer from "Bandanna", voice and band (2000)
    - Wedding Dances from "Bandanna", band (2000)
Forward!, brass and percussion (1999)
Qualities of Light, piano (1999)
Much Ado, orchestra (2000)
Suddenly, orchestra (or band) (2000)
Phantoms of Myself, song cycle (7 songs), voice and piano (2000) [text: Susan Griffin]
Light Fantastic, cantata, tenor, treble chorus and mixed ensemble (or band) (2000)
Love in a Life, song cycle (7 songs), voice and piano (2000)
The Heart of the Stranger, song cycle (10 songs), voice and piano (or wind ensemble) (2000)
Serenade, 10 instruments (2000)
Concerto for Oboe and String Orchestra (or string quartet) (2001)
Angels, string orchestra (2001)
Advance, orchestra (2001)
Larkin Songs, song cycle ("10" songs), voice and piano (2001) [text: Philip Larkin]
Figments, song cycle (7 songs), voice and piano (2001) [text: Alice Worth Gray]
Nocturne, piano and strings (2001)
Quintet, oboe and strings (2001)
Seven Last Words, concerto for piano LH and orchestra (or 11 players) (2002)
Piano Variations (2002)
Variant, string quartet (2002)
Snapshot No. 1, string quartet (2002)
We're All Here (3 songs), chorus and 10 instruments (or piano) (2002 / 2008) mixed ensemble (2002/2008)
Sonata No. 2, flute and piano (2003)
Chamber Symphony, 13 instruments (2003)
String Quartet No. 2, "Alive in a Moment", baritone and string quartet (2003) [text: W.H. Auden ]
Letting Go, song cycle (7 songs), voice and piano (2003)
Susurrus, orchestra (2003)
I Had Rather, chorus (2004) [text: George Washington]
Sappho Songs, song cycle, 2 female voices and cello (2004)
Romeo and Juliet, flute, cello and orchestra (2004)
Flight Music, song cycle (6 songs), treble chorus and string quartet (or piano) (2005) [text: Amelia Earhart]
Broken Pieces, love story in 1 scene (2005) [libretto: Barbara Grecki] [used in "New York Stories", 2008]
The Antient Concert, dramatic recital in 1 act (2005) [libretto: Paul Muldoon]
Vertue, chorus and piano (2005) [text: George Herbert]
Snapshot No. 2, string quartet (2006)
Piano Trio No. 3, "Wayfaring Stranger", violin, cello and piano (2006)
Orpheus and Eurydice, concerto for piano trio (violin, cello and piano) and orchestra (2006)
O, For Such a Dream, soprano, chorus and piano (2006) [text: letter of Ann Smith to her husband David]
Masquerade, concerto for violin, cello and orchestra (2007)
Songs of Experience, song set (6 songs), voice and piano (2007)
Agincourt Fanfare, brass and timpani (2007)
Piano Trio No. 4, "Angel Band", violin, cello and piano (2007)
New York Stories, an opera in 3 apartments (2008)
    - Broken Pieces, love story in 1 scene (2005) [libretto: Barbara Grecki]
    - Just for the Night, 1 act opera (????)
    - Cradle Song, 1 act opera (????)
Symphony No. 4 , chorus and orchestra (2008)
Three Celtic Songs, 3 treble voices (2009)
Suite for Piano (2009)
Northern Lights, orchestra (2009)
Amelia, opera in 6 scenes and 2 acts (2009) [libretto: Gardner McFall, after an original story by Stephen Wadsworth]
Genji concerto for koto and orchestra (or string quartet) (2010)
Con Gai: a greeting and a farewell, orchestra (2010)
Book of Days, clarinet, viola and piano (2010)
We Happy Few, male voice and piano (2010)
Song of Gabriel, motet, chorus and string orchestra (2010) [text: Sabine Baring-Gould, adapted by the composer]
Songbook, concerto for violin, string orchestra, harp and percussion  (2011)
Little Nemo in Slumberland, opera in 2 acts (2011)
The New Yorkers, 2 voices and piano (2011) [text: Hagen]
Vegetable Verselets, song cycle, soprano and piano (2011)
LyricFest, song cycle, voices and piano (2011) ???
String Quartet No. 3 (2011)


WORKS BY GENRE                                                                     Hagen Links    ~ ~ ~    Hagen on Hagen     ~ top of page ~
Dramatic/Theater
Shining Brow, opera in 2 acts with prologue (1991) [libretto: Paul Muldoon]
Dear Youth, song cycle (8 songs), soprano, flute and piano (1991) ["Miniature Folk Opera"]
The Elephant's Child, children's opera (1994) [libretto: by the composer after Kipling]
Vera of Las Vegas, nightmare cabaret in 1 act (1996; fp/stage, 2003) [1997?]
Songs of Madness and Sorrow, dramatic cantata, tenor & mixed ensemble (1997)[libretto: Hagen, after various sources]
Bandanna, opera in 2 acts with prologue (1998) [libretto: Paul Muldoon]
Broken Pieces, love story in 1 scene (2005) [libretto: Barbara Grecki]
The Antient Concert, dramatic recital in 1 act (2005) [libretto: Paul Muldoon]
New York Stories, an opera in 3 apartments (2008)
    - Broken Pieces, love story in 1 scene (2005) [libretto: Barbara Grecki]
    - Just for the Night, 1 act opera (????)
    - Cradle Song, 1 act opera (????)
Amelia, opera in 6 scenes and 2 acts (2009) [libretto: Gardner McFall, after an original story by Stephen Wadsworth]
Little Nemo in Slumberland, opera in 2 acts (2011)

Orchestra
Prayer for Peace, string orchestra (1981)
Andersonville Overture, orchestra (1982)
Symphony No. 1, orchestra (1985)
Grand Line: a Tribute to Leonard Bernstein, orchestra (1986)
Symphony No. 2, orchestra (1990)
Heliotrope, chamber orchestra (1990)
Philharmonia, orchestra (1991)
Fire Music, orchestra (1992)
Symphony No. 3, orchestra (1998; rev. 2010)
Much Ado, orchestra (2000)
Suddenly, orchestra (or band) (2000)
Angels, string orchestra (2001)
Advance, orchestra (2001)
Susurrus, orchestra (2003)
Symphony No. 4 , chorus and orchestra (2008)
Northern Lights, orchestra (2009)
Con Gai: a greeting and a farewell, orchestra (2010)

Band
Sennets, Cortege, and Tuckets, band (1990)
Concerto for Flügelhorn and Wind (or String) Ensemble (1994)
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (or Wind Orchestra) (1996)
Night, Again, band (1998)
Bandanna Overture, band (1999)
Prelude and Prayer from "Bandanna", voice and band (2000)
Wedding Dances from "Bandanna", band (2000)
Suddenly, orchestra (or band) (2000)
The Heart of the Stranger, song cycle (10 songs), voice and piano (or wind ensemble) (2000)
Light Fantastic, cantata, tenor, treble chorus and mixed ensemble (or band) (2000)

Soloist(s) w/Orchestra or Band
Stanzas, cello and chamber orchestra (1982)
Concerto for Flügelhorn and Wind (or String) Ensemble (1994)
Concerto for Horn, horn, winds and string orchestra (1994)
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (or Wind Orchestra) (1996)
Concerto for Oboe and String Orchestra (or string quartet) (2001)
Seven Last Words, concerto for piano LH and orchestra (or 11 players) (2002)
Romeo and Juliet, flute, cello and orchestra (2004)
Orpheus and Eurydice, concerto for piano trio (violin, cello and piano) and orchestra (2006)
Masquerade, concerto for violin, cello and orchestra (2007)
Genji concerto for koto and orchestra (or string quartet) (2010)
Songbook, concerto for violin, string orchestra, harp and percussion  (2011)

Chorus w/Orchestra or Band
A Walt Whitman Requiem, chorus and string orchestra (1984)
Taliesin: Choruses from "Shining Brow", chorus and orchestra (1991/1995) [text: Paul Muldoon]
    - Hymn to Nature (Chorus)
    - Sullivan Variations (Brass)
    - Workmen's Chorus (Tutti)
    - Reporters' Chorus (Chorus)
    - Fire Interlude (Orchestra)
    - Townspeople's Chorus (Tutti)
    - Balm in Gilead (Tutti)
Joyful Music, mezzo-soprano, chorus and orchestra (1994)
Stewards of Your Bounty, trumpet, chorus and orchestra (1996)
Light Fantastic, cantata, tenor, treble chorus and mixed ensemble (or band) (2000)
    - Tutti: Hymn to Light [text: William Shakespeare]
    - Tenor Solo: Sundown Lights [text: Walt Whitman]
    - First Meditation: Nightfall (instumental)
    - Tenor Solo: Night's Paddock [text: Martin Harrison]
    - Tenor Solo: Sun of the Sleepless [text: Gordon, Lord Byron]
    - Second Meditation (instrumental)
    - Tutti: Life Among the Asmat [text: Tobias Schneebaum]
    - Tutti: Final Hymn to Light [text: Shakespeare]
Symphony No. 4 , chorus and orchestra (2008)
Song of Gabriel, motet, chorus and string orchestra (2010) [text: Sabine Baring-Gould, adapted by the composer]

Choral
The Voice Within (3 songs), chorus and piano (1985) [text: Dag Hammarskjold; 12th c. liturgical text]
    - As Watchmen Look for Morning [text: 12th. c liturgy]
    - Vagen [text: Dag Hammarskjold]
    - The Voice Within [text: Hammarskjold]
Vägen, chorus and piano (1985) [text: Hammarskjold] [from "The Voice Within", 1985]
Little Prayers (5 songs), chorus (1989)
    - Almighty Father, Incline Thine Ear
    - Our Father, Who Art in Heaven
    - Why Do You Seek Rest? [text: St. Thomas Aquinas]
    - We May Be Heroic [text: Thomas Mann]
    - Lord, God in Heaven [text: Soren Kierkegaard]
Four Poems of Blake, chorus and piano (1994)
    - The Lamb
    - The Divine Image
    - Auguries of Innocence
    - Night
The Waking Father, song cycle (12 songs), 6 male voices (1995) [text: Paul Muldoon]
    - The Waking Father
    - Oscar
    - Thrush
    - The Fox
    - Dancers at the Moy
    - The Panther
    - Bran
    - Vico
    - Enough
    - Armageddon V
    - The Mixed Marriage
    - Cherish the Ladies
Litany of Reconciliation, chorus (1996)
Hosanna, chorus (1996)
Lullay, chorus (1996)
At Bethlehem Proper, tenors, basses and cello (1996)
God Rest Ye / Emmanuel, chorus and two cellos (1996)
O Come, Emmanuel, chorus (1996)
Once in Royal David's City, treble voices and solo cello (or string orchestra) (1996/2006)
Silent Night, chorus, cello and synthesizer (or vibraphone) (1996)
What Child is This?, chorus (1996)
Hope, chorus and any 3 single line instruments (1997) [text: Emily Dickinson]
Gandhi's Children, treble voices and handbells (1997)
Silent Night (8 mvts), chorus, cello and percussion (1998)
We're All Here (3 songs), chorus and 10 instruments (or piano) (2002 / 2008) mixed ensemble (2002/2008)
    - Pied Beauty [text: Gerard Manley Hopkins]
    - Raking Leaves [text: Robert Frost]
    - We're All Here [text: James Fenimore Cooper]
I Had Rather, chorus (2004) [text: George Washington]
Flight Music, song cycle (6 songs), treble chorus and string quartet (or piano) (2005) [text: Amelia Earhart]
    - We Are Running North and South
    - Courage
    - Choice
    - Paper Tigers
    - Wait
    - Why Flyers Fly
Vertue, chorus and piano (2005) [text: George Herbert]
O, For Such a Dream, soprano, chorus and piano (2006) [text: letter of Ann Smith to her husband David]
Three Celtic Songs, 3 treble voices (2009)
    - Bring a Chant
    - That Night
    - The Islands of Earthly Paradise

Chamber
Wind Songs, oboe, bassoon and horn (1982)
Piano Trio No. 1, "Trio Concertante", violin, cello and piano (1984)
Divertimento, viola, harp and vibraphone (1984)
String Quartet No. 1 (1985)
Piano Trio No. 2, "J'entends", violin, cello and piano (1986)
The Presence Absence Makes, flute and string quartet (1988)
Jot!, clarinet, marimba and piano (1989)
Harp Trio, flute, viola and harp (1989)
Everything Must Go!, brass quintet (1993)
Music from Shining Brow, brass quintet (1994)
Concerto for Brass Quintet (1995)
An Overture to Vera, 14 instruments (1996)
Built Up Dark, strings, winds and brass (1996)
Duo for Violin and Cello (1997)
Forward!, brass and percussion (1999)
Serenade, 10 instruments (2000)
Nocturne, piano and strings (2001)
Quintet, oboe and strings (2001)
Variant, string quartet (2002)
Snapshot No. 1, string quartet (2002)
Chamber Symphony, 13 instruments (2003)
String Quartet No. 2, "Alive in a Moment", baritone and string quartet (2003) [text: W.H. Auden ]
Snapshot No. 2, string quartet (2006)
Piano Trio No. 3, "Wayfaring Stranger", violin, cello and piano (2006)
Agincourt Fanfare, brass and timpani (2007)
Piano Trio No. 4, "Angel Band", violin, cello and piano (2007)
Book of Days, clarinet, viola and piano (2010)
String Quartet No. 3 (2011)

Instrument and Piano
Sonata No. 1, flute and piano (1985)
Sonata No. 2, flute and piano (2003)

Solo Instrument
Suite for Solo Violin (1984)
Suite for Solo Cello (1985)
Suite for Solo Viola (1986)
Higher, Louder, Faster!, etude for solo cello (1987)
Sussex Carol, cello (1996)

Piano or Organ
Occasional Notes, organ (1985)
Qualities of Light, piano (1999)
Piano Variations (2002)
Suite for Piano (2009)

Vocal
Echo's Songs, [song cycle] (11 songs), voice and piano (1982)
    - Never pain to tell thy love [text: William Blake]   
    - I am not yours [text: Sara Teasdale]
    - A dream within a dream [text: Edgar Allan Poe]
    - Echo's song [text: Ben Johnson]
    - I am Rose [text: Gertrude Stein]
    - Lost [text: Carl Sandburg]
    - Why did you go [text: e.e. cummings]
    - Since you went away [text: Kenneth Rexroth]
    - Thou wouldst be loved [text: Edgar Allen Poe]
    - Look down fair moon [text: Walt Whitman]
    - The mild mother [text: anon. 16th c.]
Three Silent Things, song cycle (10 songs), soprano and piano quartet (1984)
    - I Depart as Air [text: Walt Whitman]
    - Despite and Still [text: Robert Graves]
    - Ferry Me Across the Water [text: Christina Rosetti]
    - Do I Love You? [text: Jack Larson]
    - Pitiless God [text: Robinson Jeffers]
    - Three Silent Things [text: Adelaide Crapsey]
    - Specimen Case [text: Whitman]
    - Rain [text: Paul Goodman]
    - Now That I Love You [text: Graves]
    - A Clear Day and No Memories [text: Wallace Stevens]
Love Songs, song cycle (8 songs), voice and piano (1986)
    - I Am Loved [text: Gwen Hagen]
    - Little Uneasy Song [text: Reine Hauser]   
    - Ah! Sun-Fower [text: William Blake]
    - Lost Love [text: Ze'ev Dunei]
    - Washing Her Hair [text: Sarah Gorham]
    - Requiem [text: Ze'ev Dunei]
    - The Satyr [text: Gwen Hagen]
    - Sonnet After a Story by Oscar Wilde [text: Gardner McFall]
Rapture and Regret (2 songs), soprano, cello and piano (1987)
    - Rapture [text: Virginia Woolf, from "The Waves"]
    - Regret [text: Isak Dinesan, from "Out of Africa"]
Muldoon Songs, song cycle (7 songs) voice and piano (1990) [text: Paul Muldoon]
    - The Waking Father
    - Thrush
    - Blemish
    - Mink
    - Bran
    - Vico
    - Holy Thursday
Dear Youth, song cycle (8 songs), soprano, flute and piano (1991) ["Miniature Folk Opera"]
    - The Bonnie Blue Flag [text: Annie Chambers Ketchum]
    - I Stop Again [text: Hannah Ropes]
    - The Picture Graved Into My Heart [text: Hannah Ropes]
    - The Trouble Was Tom [text: anon.]
    - The Lord Knows [text: Ann Smith]
    - O, For Such a Dream [text: Ann Smith]
    - Christmas Night [text: Martha Ingram]
    - ... Silently Dispersing [text: Mary Boykin Chestnut]
Lost in Translation, song cycle (5 songs) voice, oboe, cello and harpsichord (1993)
    - Herbsttag [text: Rainer Maria Rilke]
    - The Garrison [text: W.H. Auden]
    - XIV [text: George Sefaris]
    - 'And the feast is followed by the common day' [text: Robert Kelley]
    - Giardino Autunnale [text: Dino Campagna]
Merrill Songs, song cycle (7 songs), voice and piano (1996) [text: James Merrill]
    - A Downward Look
    - body
    - The Instilling
    - On the Block: Mantel Clock
    - Vol. XLIV, No. 3
    - Pledge
    - An Upward Look
Songs of Madness and Sorrow, dramatic cantata, tenor & mixed ensemble (1997)[libretto: Hagen, after various sources]
Prelude and Prayer from "Bandanna", voice and band (2000)
Phantoms of Myself, song cycle (7 songs), voice and piano (2000) [text: Susan Griffin]
    - I Wake Thinking of Myself as a Man
    - A Story
    - Confession
    - Her Sadness Runs Beside Her Like a Horse
    - 'Quiet, quiet heart'
    - Absence
    - 'I wake to your gestures...'
Love in a Life, song cycle (7 songs), voice and piano (2000)
    - Love in a Life [text: Robert Browning]
    - Congedo [text: Nuar Alsadir]
    - Ample Make This Bed [text: Emily Dickinson]
    - Stanzas for Music [text: George Gordon, Lord Byron]
    - The Waking [text: Theodore Roethke]
    - To You [text: Walt Whitman]
    - To You [text: Walt Whitman]
    - Love [text: Thomas Lodge]
The Heart of the Stranger, song cycle (10 songs), voice and piano (or wind ensemble) (2000)
    - Symmetry [text: Andre Codrescu]
    - Even Twilight [text: Charles Baudelaire, trans. by the composer]
    - It Weeps in My Heart [text: Paul Verlaine, translated by the composer]
    - To Nobodaddy [text: William Blake]
    - Dawlish Fair [text: John Keats]
    - Under the Night Sky [text: Kim Roberts]
    - O, When I Was in Love With You [text: A.E. Houseman]
    - An Irony [text: Gwen Hagen]
    - Specimen Case [text: Walt Whitman]
    - Song [text: Theodore Roethke]
Larkin Songs, song cycle ("10" songs), voice and piano (2001) [text: Philip Larkin]
    - Going
    - Coming
    - Interlude #1: Fiction and the Reading Public
    - Counting
    - 'None of the books have time'
    - 'Within the dream you said'
    - Talking in Bed
    - Interlude #2: 'To write one song, you said'
    - 'Morning at last: there is snow'
    - The White Palace
Figments, song cycle (7 songs), voice and piano (2001) [text: Alice Worth Gray]
    - Gravity
    - Why We Have Cats
    - The End of Daylight Savings Time
    - Zoo Prepares to Adopt Metric System
    - Lines After Marianne Moore
    - Deer in Mist and Almonds
    - The Poetry of Sausages: Morcilla
String Quartet No. 2, "Alive in a Moment", baritone and string quartet (2003) [text: W.H. Auden ]
    - Rondo: O What is That Sound
    - Variations: Orpheus
    - Song: Epitaph on a Tyrant
    - Interlude: A Moment [instrumental]
    - Song: The Composer
    - Scherzo: In Moments of Joy
    - Closing Hymn: Alive in a Moment
Letting Go, song cycle (7 songs), voice and piano (2003)
    - A Suite of Appearances [text: Mark Strand]
    - Ferry Me Across the Water [text: Christina Rosetti]
    - Ghost Letter [text: Richard McCann]
    - 'I'll sing a song to my love' [text: Gwen Hagen]
    - Prayer to Sparrow in Two Seasons [text: Mark Skinner]
    - The Second Law [text: Stephen Sandy]
    - Psalm 150
Sappho Songs, song cycle, 2 female voices and cello (2004)
Songs of Experience, song set (6 songs), voice and piano (2007)
    - Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night [text: Walt Whitman]
    - Amelia's Song [text: Gardner McFall]
    - Wisdom [text: Sara Teasdale]
    - Elegy for Ray Charles [text: Stephen Dunn]
    - The Stranger's Grave [text: Emily Lawless]
    - Two Butterflies [text: Emily Dickinson]
We Happy Few, male voice and piano (2010)
The New Yorkers, 2 voices and piano (2011) [text: Hagen]
Vegetable Verselets, song cycle, soprano and piano (2011)
    - individual titles???
LyricFest, song cycle, voices and piano (2011) ???


HAGEN  LINKS                                                                     Works by Genre    ~ ~ ~    Hagen on Hagen      ~ top of page ~
Composers Responses to 9/11: Daron Hagen (Chamber Musician Today)
A Conversation with Composer Daron Hagen (James Reel, eConcertBand)
Creative Collaboration Produces Original Opera (Eric Quiñones, Princeton News)
Daron Hagen Remembers William Smith (Chamber Musician Today)
An Introduction to American Song Composer Daron Hagen and His Miniature Folk Opera "Dear Youth" (Jane McCalla Redding)
'Opera News' and NPR Honor Composer Hagen (Angela Mitchell, About.com)
World Premiere of Daron Hagen's Opera "Amelia" (Ivan Katz, Huffington Post)
Yaddo Elects Composer Daron Hagen Lifetime Member (yaddo.org)

Composer's website    . . .   contact Daron Hagen:  here
Notes - A Composer's Life (Composer's Blog)
Hagen @ Twitter

Hagen @ Wikipedia
Hagen @ American Composers Forum
Hagen @ American Music Center
Hagen @ Answers.com
Hagen @ ArtVoice
Hagen @ Chamber Musician Today
Hagen @ Classical Archives
Hagen @ Classical Composers Database
Hagen @ ClassicsToday
Hagen @ Facebook
Hagen @ The Harbinger
Hagen @ InstantEncore
Hagen @ Kalvos & Damian
Hagen @ The Kennedy Center
Hagen @ LinkedIn
Hagen @ Modern Classical
Hagen @ MusicWeb International
Hagen @ Naxos
Hagen @ The New York Times
Hagen @ Passionato
Hagen @ Philadelphia Performs
Hagen @ REC Music Foundation /The Lied and Art Song Texts Page
Hagen @ Requiem Survey
Hagen @ Russian Opera Workshop
Hagen @ Seattle Opera    also    here
Hagen @ Song of America
Hagen @ The Craig Urquhart Agency    also     here
Hagen @ US Opera
Hagen @ Williams College Symphonic Winds
Hagen @ Wind Repertory Project

Publisher
Hagen @ Composer's website
Hagen @ Burning Sled Music
Hagen @ Carl Fischer
Hagen @ E.C. Schirmer Publishing    also    here

Streaming Audio
Hagen @ Composer's website
Hagen @ Behind the Beat
Hagen @ Classical Archives
Hagen @ last.fm
Hagen @ Rhapsody.com

Recordings
Hagen @ Composer's website
Hagen @ Albany Records
Hagen @ Amazon.com
Hagen @ ArkivMusic
Hagen @ CD Universe
Hagen @ ClassicsOnline
Hagen @ DRAM Online
Hagen @ itunes

Video
Hagen @ YouTube
Hagen @ Google Video
Hagen @ Vimeo

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Hagen on Hagen: Interview/PrivateLessons.com (VIDEO)







Hagen on Hagen: Daron Hagen Discusses His Koto Concerto (VIDEO)

see also Daron Hagen discuss his:
 Violin Concerto    and    Third Symphony






Hagen on Hagen: ASCAP Composer Portrait  (streaming audio)
Daron Hagen, composerComposers Speak on the Web at Pytheas
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Hagen on Hagen: ASCAP Composer Portrait: Daron Hagen & Paul Muldoon  (streaming audio)
Daron Hagen, composerComposers Speak on the Web at Pytheas
                            ~ click on composer picture to listen ~







Hagen on Hagen: At Kalvos & Damian (streaming audio)
Daron Hagen, composerComposers Speak on the Web at Pytheas
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. . . and check out more    Composers Speak on the Web    at Pytheas

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