A Song Cycle for Four Solo Voices
"In a Persian Garden," by Liza Lehmann.
Words from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
ELSIE CARLIN (Soprano).
GLADYS JONES (Contralto).
HARRY STEVENS (Tenor).
MARK MELLERS (Bass).
QUARTET: "Wake for the Sun Who Scattered into Flight."
HARRY STEVENS: "Before the Phantom of False Morning Died."
MARK MELLERS: Recit., "Now the New Year Reviving Old Desires."
HARRY STEVENS: "Iram Indeed is Gone With All His Rose."
QUARTET: "Come, Fill the Cup and in the Fire of Spring."
HARRY STEVENS: "Whether at Mashapnr or Babylon."
GLADYS JONES: Recit., "Ah, Not a Drop that From Our Cups We Throw"; "I Sometimes Think That Never Blows So Red."
ELSIE CARLIN and HARRY STEVENS: Duet, "A Book of Verses Underneath the Bough."
MARK MELLERS: "Myself When Young"; Recit., "Ah, Make the Most of What We Yet May Spend."
GLADYS JONES: "When You and I Behind the Veil are Past."
ELSIE CARLIN: "But if the Soul Can Fling the Dust Aside"; "I Sent My Soul Throngh the Invisible."
HARRY STEVENS: "Alas! That Spring Should Vanish."
GLADYS JONES: "The Worldly Hope Men Set Their Hearts Upon."
ELSIE CARLIN: "Each Morn a Thousand Roses Brings You Say."
QUARTET: "They Say the Lion and the Lizard Keep."
HARRY STEVENS: Recit... "Ah, Fill the Cup"; "Ah, Moon of My Delight."
MARK MELLERS: "As Then the Tulip from Her Morning Sup."
QUARTET: "Alas! that Spring Should Vanish."
THE RIPLEY UNITED SILVER PRIZE BAND: Conductor, W. J. SAINT.