Juliana Hall (1958- )
Juliana
Hall is primarily known as a composer of classical art songs. She has
written over 35 song cycles (comprised of more than 250 individual
songs), anthems for a capella choir, a cantata, and a chamber opera. In
recent years, she has also composed several collections of childrens’
piano music (nearly 40 separate pieces), as well as a variety of
instrumental works for cello, english horn, piano, and saxophone.
Hall's music has been performed in over 24 countries in North and South
America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, at performance venues including
Ambassador Auditorium (Los Angeles, CA), the French Library (Boston,
MA), Kemper Art Museum (St. Louis, MO), the Library of Congress
(Washington, DC), Ordway Theater (St. Paul, MN), the Strathmore Hall
Arts Center (Bethesda, MD), the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
(Hartford, CT), Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (New York, NY), and
Wigmore Hall (London, UK). Festival performances include concerts at
the Norfolk Chamber Music (Norfolk, CT), Ojai (Ojai, CA), and
Tanglewood (Lenox, MA) summer music festivals. Her compositions have
been broadcast over numerous radio networks, including the BBC
(London), NPR (Washington, DC), Radio France (Paris), Radio MonaLisa
(Amsterdam), and Radio ArtsIndonesia (Jakarta). Several works have
been recorded on the Vienna Modern Masters label, and a new recording
of her song cycle Letters from Edna
is slated for a Summer 2013 release on the Albany record label. Hall's
songs have been taught at a number of universities and professional
music schools, including the Juilliard School (New York, NY), as well
as at festivals and institutes like Tanglewood (Lenox, MA) and SongFest
2012 (Los Angeles, CA). Hall has also given seminars in song
writing at the Hartt School of Music (West Hartford, CT), and was a
Visiting Professor of Composition at Hartt in 2006.COMPOSITIONS Juliana Hall Links ~ ~ ~ Works by Genre
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In Reverence (5 songs), soprano and piano (1985) [text: Emily Dickinson]
Night Dances (7 songs), soprano and piano (1987)
Lorelei, mezzo-soprano, horn and piano (1989) [text: Sylvia Plath]
Syllables of Velvet, Sentences of Plush (7 songs), soprano and piano (1989) [text: letters of Emily Dickinson]
Letters from Edna (8 songs), mezzo-soprano and piano (1989) [text: letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay]
Peacock Pie (20 songs), tenor and piano (1989) [text: Walter de la Mare]
Theme In Yellow (7 songs), soprano (or tenor) and piano (1989)
Winter Windows (7 songs), baritone and piano (1989)
Bells and Grass (5 songs), soprano and oboe (1989) [text: Walter de la Mare]
Lovestars (5 Songs), soprano, cello and piano (1989) [text: e.e. cummings]
Fables for a Prince (6 songs), soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone and piano (1990) [text: La Fontaine, trans, by M. Moore]
The Walrus and The Carpenter, soprano, oboe, clarinet and bassoon (1992) [text: Lewis Carroll]
Death's Echo (5 songs), baritone and piano (1992) [text: W.H. Auden]
Propriety (5 songs), soprano and piano (1992) [text: Marianne Moore]
Two Birds (2 Songs), soprano, flute and piano (1995) [text: e.e. cummings]
Paradise (7 songs), soprano and piano (1999) [text: Emily Dickinson]
The Poet's Calendar (12 songs), tenor and piano (1999) [text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]
Love's Pilgrimage (5 songs), baritone and piano (2000) [text: William Shakespeare]
Dreams in War Time (7 songs), mezzo-soprano and piano (2003) [text: Amy Lowell]
One Art (4 songs), mezzo-soprano and cello (2003) [text: Elizabeth Bishop]
The Duck and The Kangaroo, mezzo-soprano, bass voice and piano (2003) [text: Edward Lear]
North-West Passage (3 pieces), piano (2004) [based on poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] [for young performers]
Sammy's Mother Goose (20 pieces), piano (2004) [based on Mother Goose rhymes]
Paul Revere's Ride, piano (2005) [based on a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] [for advanced students]
Suite Creatures (5 pieces), piano (2005) [based on mythological creatures] [for advanced students]
Peacock Pie (5 pieces), piano (2004) [based on poems by Walter de la Mare] [for advanced students]
Julie Jane (5 songs), baritone and piano (2006) [text: Thomas Hardy]
Five Nocturnes, baritone and piano (2006) [text: Robert Frost]
Seeker of Truth (14 songs), sopr, mezzo-sopr, tenor, alto & bari saxes [1 player], cello & child pianist (2006) [text: e.e. cummings]
Anne's Mother Goose (5 pieces), piano (2006) [based on Mother Goose rhymes] [for young performers]
The Poets (5 songs), bass voice and piano (2007) [text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]
Ding Dong Bell, 8 epitaphs for cello solo (2007) [based on epitaphs by Walter de la Mare]
Songs of Innocence (6 songs), baritone and English horn (2009) [text: William Blake]
A Certain Tune, 5 songs for solo English horn (2009) [based on poems by Sara Teasdale]
Upon This Summer's Day (8 songs), soprano and piano (2010) [text: Emily Dickinson]
Crucifixus, cello and piano (2010) [based on story of the Passion from Gospels of Luke, Mark and Matthew]
Orpheus Singing, 5 songs for alto saxophone and piano (2010) [based on sonnets by Rainer Maria Rilke]
Two-Bit Variations, variations, piano (2010) [based on the theme of "Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits"]
Crossing The Water (4 songs), soprano and piano (2011) [text: Sylvia Plath]
The Ballad of Barnaby, cello (2011) [based on a poem by W.H. Auden]
The Dream of the Rood, cello and piano (2011) [based on an anonymous 7th-century Anglo-Saxon poem]
WORKS BY GENRE Juliana Hall Links ~ top of page ~
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Dramatic/Theater
Orchestra
Chorus w/Orchestra
Choral
Chamber
Instrument and Piano
Crucifixus, cello and piano (2010) [based on story of the Passion from Gospels of Luke, Mark and Matthew]
Orpheus Singing, 5 songs for alto saxophone and piano (2010) [based on sonnets by Rainer Maria Rilke]
The Dream of the Rood, cello and piano (2011) [based on an anonymous 7th-century Anglo-Saxon poem]
Solo Instrument
Ding Dong Bell, 8 epitaphs for cello solo (2007) [based on epitaphs by Walter de la Mare]
A Certain Tune, 5 songs for solo English horn (2009) [based on poems by Sara Teasdale]
The Ballad of Barnaby, cello (2011) [based on a poem by W.H. Auden]
Piano
North-West Passage (3 pieces), piano (2004) [based on poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] [for young performers]
- Good-night
- Shadow March
- In Port
Sammy's Mother Goose (20 pieces), piano (2004) [based on Mother Goose rhymes]
- Old Mother Goose
- Miss Muffet
- Jack
- Wee Willie Winkie
- Goosey, Goosey, Gander
- See-Saw
- Little Tom Tucker
- Humpty Dumpty
- Dance to Your Daddie
- Jack and Jill
- T'other Little Tune
- Pussy-Cat and Queen
- Little Jack Horner
- The Cat and the Fiddle
- The Tarts
- The Flying Pig
- Rain
- Hush-A-Bye
- To Market
- Old King Cole
Peacock Pie (5 pieces), piano (2004) [based on poems by Walter de la Mare] [for advanced students]
- Alas, Alack!
- The Bees' Song
- The Ride-by-Nights
- Some One
- The Song of Soldiers
Paul Revere's Ride, piano (2005) [based on a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] [for advanced students]
Suite Creatures (5 pieces), piano (2005) [based on mythological creatures] [for advanced students]
- Dragon of India and Ethiopia
- Basilisk
- Manticore
- Sea Serpent
- Thunderbird
Anne's Mother Goose (5 pieces), piano (2006) [based on Mother Goose rhymes] [for young performers]
- Hot Boiled Beans
- Sulky Sue
- Swan
- Three Straws
- Little Pussy
Two-Bit Variations, variations, piano (2010) [based on the theme of "Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits"]
Vocal
In Reverence (5 songs), soprano and piano (1985) [text: Emily Dickinson]
- It is an honorable Thought
- Lightly stepped a yellow star
- Prayer is the little implement
- Papa above!
- The grave my little cottage is
Night Dances (7 songs), soprano and piano (1987)
- The Crickets sang [text: Emily Dickinson]
- The Night Dances [text: Sylvia Plath]
- Song [text: Emily Brontė]
- Sleep, mourner, sleep! [text: Emily Brontė]
- Some Things Are Dark [text: Edna St. Vincent Millay]
- A Spider sewed at Night [text: Emily Dickinson]
- Sonnet [text: Elizabeth Bishop]
Lorelei, mezzo-soprano, horn and piano (1989) [text: Sylvia Plath]
Syllables of Velvet, Sentences of Plush (7 songs), soprano and piano (1989) [text: letters of Emily Dickinson]
- To Eudocia C. Flynt
- To T.W. Higginson
- To Emily Fowler (Ford)
- To Samuel Bowles the younger
- To Eugenia Hall
- To Susan Gilbert (Dickinson)
- To Susan Gilbert (Dickinson)
Letters from Edna (8 songs), mezzo-soprano and piano (1989) [text: letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay]
- To Mr. Ficke and Mr. Bynner (excerpt)
- To Arthur Davison Ficke (excerpt)
- To Anne Gardner Lynch (excerpt)
- To Harriet Monroe
- To Norma Millay (excerpt)
- To Arthur Davison Ficke
- To Arthur Davison Ficke
- To Mother (excerpts)
Peacock Pie (20 songs), tenor and piano (1989) [text: Walter de la Mare]
- The Horseman
- The Bandog
- The Sea Boy
- Jim Jay
- Cake and Sack
- The Huntsman
- Tired Tim
- The Dunce
- Poor Henry
- The Quartette
- Full Moon
- Summer Evening
- Five Eyes
- The Ruin
- All But Blind
- Will Ever?
- The Penny Owing
- The Horseman
- The Song of the Mad Prince
- The Song of 'Finis'
Theme In Yellow (7 songs), soprano (or tenor) and piano (1989)
- Song [text: Edna St. Vincent Millay]
- Ripe Corn [text: Carl Sandburg]
- November [text: Amy Lowell]
- Theme In Yellow [text: Carl Sandburg]
- Gathering Leaves [text: Robert Frost]
- Splinter [text: Carl Sandburg]
- Haze Gold [text: Carl Sandburg]
Winter Windows (7 songs), baritone and piano (1989)
- Winter Night [text: Edna St. Vincent Millay]
- The Snowflake [text: Walter de la Mare]
- A Song [text: Percy Bysshe Shelley]
- The Snow-Man [text: Walter de la Mare]
- Lully [text: Walter de la Mare]
- Winter Evening [text: Walter de la Mare]
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening [text: Robert Frost]
Bells and Grass (5 songs), soprano and oboe (1989) [text: Walter de la Mare]
- Echo
- Gone
- Why?
- Coals
- Rain
Lovestars (5 Songs), soprano, cello and piano (1989) [text: e.e. cummings]
- love is the every only god
- if the Lovestar grows most big
- here's a little mouse)and
- home means that
- being to timelessness as it's to time
Fables for a Prince (6 songs), soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone and piano (1990) [text: La Fontaine, trans, by M. Moore]
- To His Royal Highness the Dauphin
- The Fox and the Crow
- The Hen that Laid the Golden Eggs
- The Horse and the Ass
- The Physicians
- Epilogue
The Walrus and The Carpenter, soprano, oboe, clarinet and bassoon (1992) [text: Lewis Carroll]
Death's Echo (5 songs), baritone and piano (1992) [text: W.H. Auden]
- As I Walked Out One Evening
- If I Could Tell You
- Death's Echo
- No Time
- Lullaby
Propriety (5 songs), soprano and piano (1992) [text: Marianne Moore]
- Mercifully
- Carnegie Hall: Rescued
- Dream
- Propriety
- Melchior Vulpius
Two Birds (2 Songs), soprano, flute and piano (1995) [text: e.e. cummings]
- Crazy Jay Blue
- Kingbird
Paradise (7 songs), soprano and piano (1999) [text: Emily Dickinson]
- I sing to use the Waiting
- I've heard an Organ talk, sometimes
- Why - do they shut Me out of Heaven?
- At least - to pray - is left - is left
- Teach Him - When He makes the names
- What is - "Paradise"
- Tie the Strings to my Life, My Lord
The Poet's Calendar (12 songs), tenor and piano (1999) [text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]
- January
- February
- March
- April
- May
- June
- July
- August
- September
- October
- November
- December
Love's Pilgrimage (5 songs), baritone and piano (2000) [text: William Shakespeare]
- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
- Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day
- Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
- When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
- Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
Dreams in War Time (7 songs), mezzo-soprano and piano (2003) [text: Amy Lowell]
- I wandered through a house of many rooms
- I dug a grave under an oak-tree
- I gambled with a silver money
- I painted the leaves of bushes red
- I followed a procession of singing girls
- I wished to post a letter
- I had made a kite
One Art (4 songs), mezzo-soprano and cello (2003) [text: Elizabeth Bishop]
- Imber Nocturnus
- A Word with You
- One Art
- The Wave
The Duck and The Kangaroo, mezzo-soprano, bass voice and piano (2003) [text: Edward Lear]
Julie Jane (5 songs), baritone and piano (2006) [text: Thomas Hardy]
- The Ballad Singer
- Julie Jane
- The Fiddler
- To Carrey Clavel
- Rose Ann
Five Nocturnes, baritone and piano (2006) [text: Robert Frost]
- The Night Light
- Were I In Trouble
- Bravado
- On Making Certain Anything Has Happened
- In The Long Night
Seeker of Truth (14 songs), sopr, mezzo-sopr, tenor, alto & bari saxes [1 player], cello & child pianist (2006) [text: e.e. cummings]
- everybody happy?
- plant Magic dust
- why
- ev erythingex Cept:
- n
- old age sticks
- seeker of truth
- what Got him was Noth
- a total stranger one black day
- you no
- who are you,little i
- jack’s white horse(up
- now is a ship
- If you can’t eat you got to
The Poets (5 songs), bass voice and piano (2007) [text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]
- The Poets
- Chaucer
- Shakespeare
- Milton
- Keats
Songs of Innocence (6 songs), baritone and English horn (2009) [text: William Blake]
- Introduction
- The Shepherd
- The Little Boy Found
- Laughing Song
- A Dream
- The Ecchoing Green
Upon This Summer's Day (8 songs), soprano and piano (2010) [text: Emily Dickinson]
- Whose are the little beds, I asked
- Bloom - is Result - to meet a Flower
- I tend my flowers for thee
- Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower
- The Daisy follows soft the Sun
- God made a little Gentian
- Apparently with no surprise
- When Roses cease to bloom, Sir
Crossing The Water (4 songs), soprano and piano (2011) [text: Sylvia Plath]
- Street Song
- Crossing The Water
- Rhyme
- Alicante Lullaby
JULIANA HALL LINKS Works by Genre ~ top of page ~
Simsbury Family Makes Music Together (Barbara Thomas, The Simsbury News)
Composer's website . . . contact Juliana Hall: here
Juliana Hall @ American Composers Forum
Juliana Hall @ Classical Archives
Juliana Hall @ LinkedIn
Juliana Hall @ Listening Adventures
Juliana Hall @ New Music USA [formerly American Music Center]
Juliana Hall @ The New York Times
Juliana Hall @ Song of America
Publisher
Juliana Hall @ Composer's website
Juliana Hall @ Boosey & Hawkes
Streaming Audio
Juliana Hall @ Composer's website - check under individual work listings
Juliana Hall @ Classical Archives
Recordings
Juliana Hall @ Composer's website
Juliana Hall @ ArkivMusic
Juliana Hall @ ClassicsOnline
Video
Juliana Hall @ YouTube
Juliana Hall @ Google Video
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