We are delighted to announce publication of three very special song cycles by Timothy Bowers. The last words of famous people whether real or invented exert a strange fascination. Breaking with the tradition that a song cycle is a setting of poetry Timothy Bowers has chosen the last words of fourteen famous (in one case infamous) characters from history and two comic/ironic epitaphs by Byron as his texts. Each collection provides a short (c 7’) concert work with settings ranging from fifteen seconds to five minutes duration.Book 2 is for tenor and piano and traverses the widest emotional range within one volume. The poignant last words of a King a President a greatwriter and an heroic explorer sit beside the vengeful rantings of a prisoner sent for execution.

Description The First Book Of Tenor Solos Compiled by Joan Frey Boytim. Each volume contains several very easy songs, progressing to moderate difficulty. Songlist All Day On The Prairie [Guion, David] All Through The Night At The Ball [Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich] Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair [Niles, John Jacob] Brother Will, Brother John [Sacco, John] By Mendip Side [Eric, Coates] Come Again, Sweet Love [Dowland, John] Der Mond [Mendelssohn, Felix] Go, Lovely Rose [Quilter, Roger] He That Keepeth Israel [Schlosser, Adolphe] I Attempt From Love's Sickness To Fly [Purcell, Henry] I Love And I Must [Purcell, Henry] Jesu, The Very Thought Of Thee [Wesley, Samuel Sebastian] La Seña Loch Lomond [Deis, Carl] Lydia [Fauré, Gabriel] May Song [Beethoven, Ludwig Van] Mistress Mine [Walthew, Richard] My Lady Walks In Loveliness [Charles, Ernest] My Lord, What A Morning [Johnson, Hall] Noche Serena Ol'jim [Edwards, Clara] Orpheus With His Lute [Coates, Eric] Religion Is A Fortune [Johnson, Hall] Rio Grande [Dougherty, Celius] Sento Nel Core [Scarlatti, Alessandro] Serenade [Dodgson, Stephen] Silent Worship [Handel, George Frideric] The Black Dress [Niles, John Jacob] The Daisies [Barber, Samuel] The Inquisitive One [Schubert, Franz] The Lord Is My Light [Speaks, Oley] Wayfaring Stranger [Niles, John Jacob] What Shall I Do To Show How Much I Love Her? [Purcell, Henry] Youth Oft Love A Maiden, A [Schumann, Robert]