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Lullaby for a Young Road for voice and piano

Text by Jorn Ake

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to Darien Shulman for his 29th birthday

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"Lullaby for a Young Road" from Asleep in the Lightning Fields, published by Texas Review Press. licensed for performance.

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Text Copyright © 2002 Jorn Ake. Used with the kind permission of Jorn Ake.

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Dennis Tobenski: LULLABY FOR A YOUNG ROAD for voice and piano Copyright © 2009 by Tobenski Music Press, New York All rights reserved Text of “Lullaby for a Young Road” from Asleep in the Lightning Fields, published by Texas Review Press.

Copyright © 2002 by Jorn Ake. Used with kind permission of the author.

This edition first published in 2015 by Tobenski Music Press 31-52 36th St., #3F Astoria, NY 11106 ISMN 979-0-800070-01-3 Distributed by MusicSpoke www.musicspoke.com

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till night is overgone (2007) song cycle for tenor and piano texts: James Joyce

Sweet Briar Songs (2007) song set for soprano or tenor and piano texts: Patricia Valdata

Starfish at Pescadero (2007) song cycle for soprano, viola, harp, and percussion texts: Idris Anderson

echoes (2008) song cycle for tenor or soprano and piano texts: Mark Statman

at least a moment (2009) song cycle for soprano or tenor and harp (or piano) texts: Kenneth Koch

To a Western Boy (2009) song for voice and piano text: Walt Whitman

meditation (2011) song for solo voice text: Mark Statman

Without a Philosophy (2013) song for soprano, violin, and harp texts: Elizabeth Seydel Morgan

Go, Little Poem (2015) song cycle for voice and piano texts: Billy Collins

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