William Bolcom: Songs

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This selection by Carole Farley of my songs covers forty years of my writing for both concert and theater. Not everyone can shift stylistic gears as easily and brilliantly as she from straight-out Broadway parody (Casino Paradise’s Night, Make My Day) to difficult art music (the I Will Breathe a Mountain cycle). Who but a courageous soprano would start a recording with a scream?   ---William Bolcom, introduction to his liner notes for this album 

Works on This Recording 

1. You Cannot Have Me Now by William Bolcom 
Performer:  Carole Farley (Soprano), William Bolcom (Piano) 
Period: 20th Century 
Written: USA 
Venue:  Potton Hall, Suffolk, England 
Length: 5 Minutes 23 Secs. 
Language: English 
Notes: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England (12/28/2004 - 12/31/2004) 

2. Night, Make My Day by William Bolcom 
Performer:  Carole Farley (Soprano), William Bolcom (Piano) 
Period: 20th Century 
Written: USA 
Venue:  Potton Hall, Suffolk, England 
Length: 2 Minutes 17 Secs. 
Language: English 
Notes: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England (12/28/2004 - 12/31/2004) 

3. The Digital Wonder Watch by William Bolcom 
Performer:  Carole Farley (Soprano), William Bolcom (Piano) 
Period: 20th Century 
Written: USA 
Venue:  Potton Hall, Suffolk, England 
Length: 3 Minutes 3 Secs. 
Language: English 
Notes: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England (12/28/2004 - 12/31/2004) 

4. The Last Days of Mankind by William Bolcom 
Performer:  Carole Farley (Soprano), William Bolcom (Piano) 
Period: 20th Century 
Written: USA 
Venue:  Potton Hall, Suffolk, England 
Length: 3 Minutes 29 Secs. 
Language: English 
Notes: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England (12/28/2004 - 12/31/2004) 

5. Songs to Dance by William Bolcom 
Performer:  Carole Farley (Soprano), William Bolcom (Piano) 
Period: 20th Century 
Written: USA 
Venue:  Potton Hall, Suffolk, England 
Length: 9 Minutes 17 Secs. 
Language: English 
Notes: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England (12/28/2004 - 12/31/2004) 

6. I Will Breathe a Mountain by William Bolcom 
Performer:  William Bolcom (Piano), Carole Farley (Soprano) 
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1990; USA 
Venue:  Potton Hall, Suffolk, England 
Length: 19 Minutes 39 Secs. 
Language: English 
Notes: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England (12/28/2004 - 12/31/2004) 

7. Tillinghast Duo by William Bolcom 
Performer:  Carole Farley (Soprano), William Bolcom (Piano) 
Period: 20th Century 
Written: USA 
Venue:  Potton Hall, Suffolk, England 
Length: 5 Minutes 23 Secs. 
Language: English 
Notes: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England (12/28/2004 - 12/31/2004) 

8. Mary by William Bolcom 
Performer:  Carole Farley (Soprano), William Bolcom (Piano) 
Period: 20th Century 
Written: USA 
Venue:  Potton Hall, Suffolk, England 
Length: 5 Minutes 6 Secs. 
Language: English 
Notes: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England (12/28/2004 - 12/31/2004) 

9. When We Built the Church by William Bolcom 
Performer:  Carole Farley (Soprano), William Bolcom (Piano) 
Period: 20th Century 
Written: USA 
Venue:  Potton Hall, Suffolk, England 
Length: 2 Minutes 10 Secs. 
Language: English 
Notes: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England (12/28/2004 - 12/31/2004) 

10. Casino Paradise: My Father the Gangster by William Bolcom 
Performer:  Carole Farley (Soprano), William Bolcom (Piano) 
Period: 20th Century 
Written: USA 
Venue:  Potton Hall, Suffolk, England 
Length: 2 Minutes 39 Secs. 
Language: English 
Notes: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England (12/28/2004 - 12/31/2004) 
Composition written: USA (1985 - 1990). 

11. Songs (3) for "The Wind in the WIllows" by William Bolcom 
Performer:  William Bolcom (Piano), Carole Farley (Soprano) 
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1980; USA 
Venue:  Potton Hall, Suffolk, England 
Length: 5 Minutes 14 Secs. 
Language: English 
Notes: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England (12/28/2004 - 12/31/2004)