List of Vocal Works, cycles, chamber, songs & chorus

Steven Ebel - Composer (b. 1979) List of Works & Texts

SONG CYCLES

Ringlenätze 2012 – from Kasperle (Joachim Ringlenatz 1883-1934)

1. Kasperlelied 

2. Schenken 

3. Bumerang 

(Youth sting orchestra & high voice – also high or medium voice and piano)

Divan Songs 2010 - from West-Östlicher Divan (Goethe)

1. Bulbuls Nachtlied 

2. Drei Sprüche

3. Die Beiden Welten 

(High voice & piano, medium voice & piano, chamber orchestra & high voice)

Irish Lullabies 2011 (WB Yeats)
1. Heavens' Cloths 

2. An Angel's Lullaby 

3. Come Away! 

4. An old song 

(high voice & piano)

The Only World 2006 - from A Timbered Choir (Wendell Berry 1934- )

1. I come to a little bench

2. The world of machines

3. Sleep is the prayer

4. Hate has no world

5. Finally, will it not be enough

(medium voice and piano)

Der Schatzgräber 2011 – from Das Stundenbuch (R.M. Rilke)

1. Die Stunde 

2. Wie Keiner

3. Gebet 

4. Schwingen 

5. Brich ein 

(mezzo-soprano and piano)

CYCLE 2012 – from The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran)

1. Knowledge

2. Pain

3. Death

(soprano voice & piano)

Look Out 2008 – from Given (Wendell Berry 1934- )

1. Whatever happens

2. This is the time

3. What I fear most

4. A mind that has confronted ruin

5. This then is to be the way

6. I dream

7. The yellow-throated warbler

8. Look Out

9. But do the Lords of war

10. It takes all time to show eternity

(tenor voice and piano)

CHAMBER MUSIC

The Privilege of Art 2008 – from Essays First Series: Art (R.W. Emerson)

(Duet for soprano, tenor and piano four hands)

Diary of a Young Poet 2009, 2012 – from Diary of a Young Poet (R.M. Rilke trans. Winkler/Snow)

(Continuous song cycle for narrator, tenor and piano)
1. Schicksale sind...
2. Alles Gefühl...
3. Und wieder rauscht...
4. Andere müssen...
5. Ich sprach von Dir als...
6. O wie is alles fern...
7. Reich mir Musik...
8. Nacht, stille Nacht...
9. Epilogue

As I walk from her grave 2005 – from Trains Facing Railroads (Jo McDougall 1935- )

1. Burying my mother

2. Homeplace

3. Most of the time

4. To her

5. The first warm day

6. Remodeling

(soprano, string quartet and piano)

The Fool's Air & Prophecy 2007 (Shakespeare – King Lear)

(Tenor, flute, violin, cello & piano)

INDIVIDUAL SONGS

Contrition 2011 (Anglican Mass)

(countertenor & piano/organ)

With Fairest Flowers 2012 – from Cymbeline (Shakespeare)

(bass voice and piano)

FOR CHORUS

Cadillac Rain 2012 – from Coney Island of the Mind (Lawrence Ferlinghetti 1919- )

(SATB, violin, electric guitar, piano & string bass)

Die Welt des Mondes 2011 – from Uncollected Poems (R.M. Rilke)

1. Vergiß, vergiß und laß uns

2. Ach, da wir Hülfe

3. Mondnacht

SSSAAATTBB

My Shy One 2011 - (WB Yeats)

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