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 131 Collections and/or Records:
Five songs to poems of Francis Ledwidge, 2012
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Identifier: MS008
Scope and Contents
Five Songs to Poems of Francis Ledwidge. For tenor and orchestra. Music by Bryan Beaumont Hays. CONTENTS: 1. To Matty McGoona -- 2. My Mother -- 3. When Love and Beauty Wander Away -- By Faughan -- To One Who Comes Now and Then. Orchestra: 3 Flutes; Piccolo (Flt III); 2 Oboes; Cor Anglais;
E-flat Clarinet; 2 B-flat clarinets; Bass Clarinet; 2 Bassoons; Contra Bassoon; 4 Horns in F; 3 Trumpets in C; 3 Trombones; Tuba; Harp; Celesta;
Strings; Percussion. Note at end: 1st draft July 15, 2012;...
Dates:
2012
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
Flower of wisdom, 2013
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Identifier: PS019
Scope and Contents
Flower of Wisdom. For SATB choir (a cappella). [Music by Bryan Beaumont Hays]. Publisher’s No. AP-10342. Lyrics based on Siracusa 1. Translated by Benedict Neal Lundgren. Choral, a cappella I stand in holy fear before the Glory Band, enraptured by the lyric strand now weaving a coat that I would wear, a song that I would bear; but flow’r of wisdom play, O wondrous awe! A shore whose sands reveal the bed of a time-worn sea; a rain estranged, eternal spring still sounding is a desert I have...
Dates:
2013
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...
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Majority of material found within 1976 - 2016
Four Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Identifier: PS053
Scope and Contents
Four Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. For a cappella SATB Choir. [Set to music by Bryan Beaumont Hays]. 1. God’s Grandeur -- 2. The Windhover -- 3. Easter Communion -- 4. Pied Beauty. Text by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Choral 1. God’s Grandeur: The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil, it gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? ... 2. The Windhover: to Christ Our Lord: I caught this morning...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1976 - 2016
Four snowscapes for solo flute
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Identifier: MS009
Scope and Contents
Four Snowscapes for Solo Flute. [By Bryan Beaumont Hays]. Contents: 1. Sunlight on snow (moderato e ben ritmo) -- 2. Birds in snowy trees (lento tranquillo e mesto) -- 3. Wind blowing fresh snow (allegro leggiero e scherzando) -- 4. Moonlight on snow (lento misterioso). Dedication: for Nobuhiro Kawamura. Flute
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1976 - 2016
Four songs to poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Identifier: MS012
Scope and Contents
Four songs to poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins : for soprano and b-flat clarinet / Music by Bryan Beaumont Hays. "For Irene Horwood." Contents: 1. Heaven-Haven: a nun takes the veil -- 2. For a picture of St. Dorothea -- 3. Spring and Fall: to a young child -- 4. Easter. Note: Alternate score is for mezzo soprano and clarinet in A, with a note: "The original work is written a half-tone higher for soprano and clarinet in B-flat". Songs I have desired to go where springs not fail, to fields...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1976 - 2016
Four songs to poems of William Blake, 2013
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Identifier: MS010
Scope and Contents
Four Songs to Poems of William Blake. For bass-baritone and orchestra. Music by Bryan Beaumont Hays. For Hugh Givens. 1. The Lamb -- 2. The Echoing Green -- 3. The Tyger-- 4. The Laughing Song. Orchestra: Piccolo (alternates with Flute II); Flute I; 2 oboes; Cor Anglais; 2 B-flat (A) clarinets; bass clarinet; 2 bassoons; 2 horns in F; 2 trumpets in C; Strings; Harp; Celesta; Percussion. Note at end: 1st orchestral draft 5/9/13. Final draft 8/5/13. Songs Little lamb, who made thee? Dost...
Dates:
2013
Four songs to poems of William Blake for low voice, 1993
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Identifier: MS011
Scope and Contents
Four Songs to Poems of William Blake. For low voice. Music by Bryan Beaumont Hays. For Hugh Givens. 1. The Lamb -- 2. The Ecchoing [sic] Green -- 3. The Tyger -- 4. Laughing Song (Piano and vocal). Note at end: July 1993. Spiral bound photocopy of manuscript score. Songs Little lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee? Gave thee life, and bed thee feed by the stream and o'er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, softest clothing woolly bright; Gave thee such a tender voice,...
Dates:
1993