Hermit Songs 1: The Desire for Hermitage

Ah! To be all alone, in a little cell, with nobody near me…” from “The Desire for Hermitage,” tenth of the Hermit Songs. Words 8th-9th century, trans. Sean O’Faolain Isolation and solitude and loneliness seem to be the buzzwords of the COVID-19 pandemic, but those words describe the opposite of…

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2020 digital-only EP release: Hermit Songs for a Time of Solitude

I recorded the Hermit Songs of Samuel Barber (1910-1981) in 2011 in collaboration with Andrew Earle Simpson on the piano. Besides putting the recording on a demo CD, I didn’t really do anything with it. (Some of you have that CD – I gave them away on a “donations accepted”…

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