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List of Works

Art Songs

1917

“Do Not Go, My Love,” dedicated to George Hamlin [Text: Rabindranath Tagore]

“May Night,” dedicated to Oscar Seagle [Text: Rabindranath Tagore]

1918

Two Songs of Childhood [Text: Eugene Field]

“Grandma’s Prayer,” dedicated to Mrs. Platt Marsch

“The Cunnin’ Little Thing”

1919

“At the Well,” dedicated to Amparito Farrar [Text: Rabindranath Tagore]

1921

“Charity,” dedicated to Frances Alda [Text: Emily Dickinson]

“Happiness,” dedicated to Renée Thornton [Text: Jean Ingelow]

“Nature’s Holiday,” dedicated to Mabel Garrison [Text: Thomas Nash]

“Ton cœur est un tombeau” (Your heart is like a tomb), dedicated to Sophie Braslau [Text: Jacques Boria, tr. Theodore Baker]

 

1922

“Animal Crackers” [Text: Christopher Morley]

“Devotion,” dedicated to Renée Thornton [Text: Christopher Morley]

“Evening,” dedicated to Laura Fink [Text: Anonymous)]

“When We Were Parted,” dedicated “to my wife” [Text: Christopher Morley]

1924

“Christ Went Up Into The Hills,” dedicated to John McCormack [Text: Katherine Adams]

“Little Sorrows” [Text: William Blake]

1925

“Me Company Along,” dedicated to Claire Dux [Text: James Stephens]

1928

“Grief,” dedicated to Marie Morrisey [Text: Ernest Dowson]

1934

“Dawn Shall Over Lethe Break” [Text: Hilaire Belloc]

“The Donkey” [Text: G. K. Chesterton]

1935

“The Little Dancers” [Text: Laurence Binyon]

“The Night Has A Thousand Eyes,” dedicated to Barbara Kliefoth [Text: F. W. Bourdillon]

1936

“Christmas Eve,” dedicated to Helen & Norman Mason [Text: Joyce Kilmer]

1937

“The Rich Man” [Text: Franklin P. Adams]

“This Thing I Do” [Text: Arthur Goodrich]

“Song without Words”

1938

“Music I Heard With You,” dedicated to Eleanore [Text: Conrad Aiken]

“Sundown” [Text: Lew Sarett]

“To A Golden-haired Girl,” dedicated to “Kleinchen” Melchior [Text: Vachel Lindsay]

1940

“Miranda,” dedicated to Arthur Renton [Text: Hilaire Belloc]

“Mother,” dedicated to Dorothy Sayles [Text: Margaret Widdemer]

“When I Am Dead, My Dearest,” dedicated to Eleanore [Text: Christina Rossetti]

1941

“Love In The Winds,” dedicated to Eleanore [Text: Richard Hovey]

1943

“Little Things” [Text: Orrick Johns]

“Voices” [Text: Witter Bynner]

1944

“Don Juan Gomez,” dedicated to John Charles Thomas [Text: Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth]

“Fear Not The Night,” dedicated to Lotte Lehmann [Text: Robert Nathan]

“Into The Silent Land” [Text: Christina Rossetti]

“Lift Thou The Burdens, Father” [Text: Katherine Call Simonds]

1945

“En una noche serena” (Alone In The Night), dedicated to Jan Peerce

[Text: Andreas de Segurola, tr. Robert B. Falk]

1946

“Beauty” [Text: John Masefield]

“Contrasts” [Text: Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth]

“The Fiddler of Dooney,” dedicated to James Melton [Text: William Butler Yeats]

1947

“A Lady Comes To An Inn” [Text: Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth]

1948

“The Fox and the Raven” [Text: Guy Wetmore Carryl]

1949

“The Summons” [Text: Rabindranath Tagore]

1950

“O Why Do You Walk?” (To a Fat Lady seen from the Train) [Text: Frances Cornford]

1951

“Hush” [Text: Robert Nathan]

“Is it you?,” dedicated to Eleanore [Text: Robert Nathan]

“Trade Winds” [Text: John Masefield]

1952

“Scherzetto” [Text: Alfred Kreymborg]

1953

“All Paths Lead To You” [Text: Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff]

“Let Me Grow Lovely” [Text: Karle Wilson Baker]

“Sleep Sweet” [Text: Ellen Huntington Gates]

“Walk Slowly” [Text: Adelaide Love]

1954

“I See His Blood Upon The Rose,” dedicated to Gladys Swarthout [Text: Joseph M. Plunkett]

“Velvet Shoes” [Text: Elinor Wylie]

1955

“A Lover’s Song,” dedicated to Eleanore [Text: Robert Nathan]

“The Owl and the Pussy-Cat,” dedicated to Thompson H. Mitchell, Jr. [Text: Edward Lear]

1956

“How to go and Forget” [Text: Edwin Markham]

“Praise,” dedicated to Eleanore [Text: Seumas O’Sullivan]

1957

“Under The Willows,” dedicated to Anne, who loved Indian Lore [Text: Mary Hunter Austin]

“When The Wind Is Low,” dedicated to Eleanore [Text: Cale Young Rice)]

1958

“Am Himmelstor” (At Heaven’s Door) [Text: Conrad F. Meyer, tr. Robert Nathan]

“Bettlerliebe” (Beggar’s Love) [Text: Theodor Storm, tr. Robert Nathan]

“Die Stadt” (The Town) [Text: Theodor Storm, tr. Robert Nathan]

“O Welt, du bist so wunderschön!” (O Lovely World) [Text: Julius Rodenberg tr. Robert Nathan]

1960

“Il Passa” (He Passed By) [Text: Helene Varesco, tr. by Robert Nathan]

“Nocturne” [Text: Jean Moréas, tr. Robert Nathan]

“So Love Returns,” dedicated to Nan Merriman [Text: Robert Nathan]

Film Scores

1938

If I Were King (Frank Lloyd, Paramount)

1939

Rulers of the Sea (Frank Lloyd, Paramount)

Stagecoach (John Ford, Walter Wanger Productions for United Artists)

Hotel Imperial (Robert Florey, Paramount)

1940

The Long Voyage Home (John Ford, Argosy Pictures for United Artists)

The Howards of Virginia (Frank Lloyd, Columbia)

1941

Paris Calling (Edwin L. Marin, Universal)

The Shanghai Gesture (Josef Sternberg, United Artists)

This Woman Is Mine (Frank Lloyd, Universal)

1947

The Fugitive (John Ford, Argosy Pictures for RKO)

Angel and the Bad Man (James Edward Grant, Republic Pictures)

Mourning Becomes Electra (Dudley Nichols, RKO)

1948

Fort Apache (John Ford, Argosy Pictures for RKO)

3 Godfathers (John Ford, Argosy Pictures for MGM)

1949

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford, Argosy Pictures for RKO)

1950

Wagon Master (John Ford, Argosy Pictures for RKO)

1952

Abenteuer in Wien (Adventure in Vienna) (Emil R. Reinert, Trans-Globe Productions)

1953

Stolen Identity [English version of Abenteuer in Wien] (Gunther von Fritsch, Trans-Globe Productions for United Artists)

Chamber Music

1937

October Musings (Violin and Piano), dedicated to Maurice Sternberger

1961

Recitative and Romance (Cello and Piano), dedicated to Gregor Piatigorsky

Opera

1931

Caponsacchi (Libretto: Arthur Goodrich)

Oratorio

1943

The Crucible (Text: Belle Cumming Kennedy)

Concert Ballad

1942

I Hear America Call (Text: Bernard Vincent Grossman)

Overture

1944

Overture in a Nutshell

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