Songfest
Subtitle: a cycle of American poems for six singers and orchestra
By: Leonard Bernstein
Publisher: Amberson; Boosey & Hawkes
Published: 1977
Place of publication: [New York?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 82
Subjects: Vocal sextets with orchestra; Song cycles; Vocal scores with piano; Songs with orchestra
Work titles: Songfest
Notes: Program notes by J. Gottlieb and texts of the songs: p. [iii-vii].

Duration: 40 min., 30 sec.
Table of contents: title: Opening hymn. To the poem (F. O'Hara) (sextet); title: Three solos. The pennycandystore beyond the El (L. Ferlinghetti) (baritone) ;  A Julia de Burgos (J. de Burgos) (soprano) ;  To what you said... (W. Whitman) (bass with other voices humming); title: Duet for mezzo soprano and baritone. I, too, sing America (L. Hughes) ;  Okay "Negroes" (J. Jordan); title: Women's trio. To my dear and loving husband (A. Bradstreet); title: Duet for soprano and bass. Storyette H. M. (G. Stein); title: Sextet. If you can't eat you got to (e. e. cummings); title: Three solos. Music I heard with you (C. Aiken) (mezzo soprano) ;  Zizi's lament (G. Corso) (tenor) ;  Sonnet. What lips my lips have kissed... (E. St. Vincent Millay) (alto); title: Closing hymn. Israfel (E. A. Poe) (sextet).