Hays, Bryan Beaumont, 1920-2017
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1920-12-10 - 2017-03-02
Occupations
Places
- Clarksville (Tenn.) (Place of Birth)
- Collegeville (Minn.) (Place of Death)
- United States (Associated Country)
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Dakota songs: set I, for soprano and guitar
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Identifier: MS001
Scope and Contents
Dakota songs: Set I. For soprano and guitar. [Music by Bryan Beaumont Hays]. [Set to] Poems of Kathleen Norris. Five songs in set I: 1. Taking the blue -- 2. Stranded in Mobridge by a spring blizzard -- 3. Calentures -- 4. Calentures north -- 5. New year's eve in Bismarck, North Dakota. Dedication: for David. 1. Taking the blue: Trees gossip in the ghost-light. Early stars climb the sky and breeze descends, touching my arm lightly, like my grandmother at the last. 2. Stranded in Mobridge by...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1976 - 2016
Dead man's dump, 1998
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Identifier: MS002
Scope and Contents
Dead man's dump [a] poem by Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) / Music by Bryan Beaumont Hays ; for bass-baritone and piano. Cover folder has inscription: "To Mozart Kaufman." Vocal and piano score. The plunging limbers over the shattered track Racketed with their rusty freight, Stuck out like many crowns of thorns, And the rusty stakes like scepters old To stay the flood of brutish men Upon our brothers dear. "Dead Man's Dump" by Isaac Rosenberg (1917) Piano Bass-baritone 39 Music...
Dates:
1998
Eleven addresses to the Lord, for bass-baritone and piano
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Identifier: MS004
Scope and Contents
Eleven addresses to the Lord. For bass-baritone and piano. Text by John Berryman. Music by Bryan Beaumont Hays. Contents: 1. "Master of beauty" -- 2. "Holy, as I suppose" -- 3. "Sole watchman" -- 4. "If I say Thy name" -- 5. "Holy, and holy" -- 6. "Under new management" -- 7. "After a stoic" -- 8. A Prayer for the Self -- 9. "Surprise me" -- 10. "Fearful I peer" -- 11. "Germanicus leapt." Dedication: to Charles Thornbury.
1. Master of beauty: Master of beauty craftsman of the snowflake,...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1976 - 2016
Eleven songs of innocence from William Blake
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Identifier: MS005
Scope and Contents
Eleven songs of innocence from William Blake : for soprano, clarinet (B-flat, A), violin and cello / music by Bryan Beaumont Hays. CONTENTS: 1. Piping down the valleys wild -- 2. A dream -- 3. The blossom. -- 4. The divine image -- 5. The chimney sweeper -- 6. Infant joy -- 7. The shepherd -- 8. The little boy lost -- 9. The little boy found -- 10. Nurse's song -- 11. Spring. Songs Piping down the valleys wild, piping songs of pleasant glee, on a cloud I saw a child, and he laughing said...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1976 - 2016
Five scenes from "An Inland Voyage" of Robert Louis Stevenson, 1981
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Identifier: MS006
Scope and Contents
Five Scenes from "An Inland Voyage" of Robert Louis Stevenson. Music by Bryan Beaumont Hays. For baritone and orchestra. I. Noyon Cathedral -- II. The Forest of Mormal -- III. The Reeds of the Oise -- IV. Drums of Landrecies -- V. Envoi: The Graces of Origny. Orchestra: 3 Flutes (Flute III with Piccolo I) (Flute II with Piccolo II); 2 Oboes; Cor Anglais; 2 b-flat Clarinets (Clarinet II with Clarinet in A); Bass Clarinet in B-flat; 3 Bassoons (Bassoon III with Contra-Bassoon); 4 Horns in F;...
Dates:
1981
Five songs from 'Poetical Sketches', 2015
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Identifier: PS038
Scope and Contents
Five Songs from 'Poetical Sketches.' Vocal solo for Soprano, Flute, Clarinet in A and Violoncello. Poetry by William Blake. Music by Bryan Beaumont Hays. Publisher's No. AP-10586. Composed for Marcie Hagen in 2000. Premiered for her DMA recital at the University of Minnesota. Song I. "How sweet I roam'd" -- Song II. "My silks and fine array" -- Song III. "Love and harmony combine" -- Song IV. "Memory, hither come" --Song V. "The wild winds weep" (Mad Song). Songs Song I. How sweet I...
Dates:
2015
Five songs from Poetical Sketches by William Blake, for soprano, flute, clarinet (B-flat and A), and violincello.
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Identifier: MS049
Scope and Contents
1. "How sweet I roam'd" -- 2. "My silks and fine array" -- 3. "Love and harmony combine" -- 4. "Memory, hither come" -- 5. "Mad song".
Photocopy of manuscript score with piano accompaniment
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1976 - 2016
Five songs to poems of Francis Ledwidge: for high voice (tenor) and piano, 1999
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Identifier: MS007
Scope and Contents
Five songs to poems of Francis Ledwidge. For high voice (tenor) and piano. [Music by Bryan Beaumont Hays]. Contents: 1. To Matty McGoona -- 2. My mother -- 3. When love and beauty wander away -- 4. By Faughan -- 5. To one who comes now and then. Dedication: in memory of Miss Pattie Marshall. The lyricist: Lance Corporal Francis Ledwidge (Irish poet and soldier of WW I), 5th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. 'B' Company, 1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Born August 19th,...
Dates:
1999
Five spring songs of Francis Ledwidge, 2015
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Identifier: PS039
Scope and Contents
Five Spring Songs of Francis Ledwidge. Vocal solo for mezzo-soprano and B-flat clarinet. Texts by Francis Ledwidge. Music by Bryan Beaumont Hays. Spring I -- Spring II -- Desire in spring -- May morning -- Evening in England. Song cycle with poetry of Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917), an Irish laborer, miner, soldier and war poet from County Meath sometimes known as the "poet of the blackbirds," who was killed in action at the Battle of Passchendaele during World War II [sic]. Publisher's no....
Dates:
2015
Four Civil War poems of Herman Melville
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Identifier: PS022
Scope and Contents
Four Civil War Poems of Herman Melville. [Set to music by Bryan Beaumont Hays]. Contents: 1. The Portent 1859 -- 2. Ball’s Bluff 1861 -- 3. Shiloh 1862 -- 4. The College Colonel. Text by Herman Melville. Choral, a cappella 1. The Portent - 1859: Hanging from the beam, slowly swaying gaunt the shadow on your green, Shenandoah! and the stabs shall heal no more. Hidden in the cap is the anguish none can draw; so your future veils its face, Shenandoah!But the streaming bears is shown, (Weird...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1976 - 2016