voices from fell’s point, 1934
for voices and string quartet
music & text by John Floyd Campbell
Prelude and Ship’s a Comin’ To Baltimore
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Is This What They Call Prosperity?
From My Marble Steps
When the World Was Something New
How Can I Reveal to You?
I Can See You Now
Girl From Ballinascarthy, The
If You Could Love Someone
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Know the Bus’ness Way
I Need Something Stronger Than Tea
This Old World is a Wreck
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Don’t Be a Doomsayer Lackey
I Do My Best to Pray to God in Riddles
Interlude
Sweet Lori McElroy
Irish Summer
Now That the Day is Done
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Lean Back Girl
If Love Moved Like the Stormy Ocean
If I Had Another Chance
Goodbye Mr. Sea Voyager
All I Want Is To Be a Manll I Want Is To Be a
Someday When We’re Not Young
Today Will Someday Be A Long Time Ago
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excerpts from SOR JUANA
(1990, revised 2020)
Excerpts from SOR JUANA
An opera in one act for voices and chamber orchestra
Libretto by Wanda Jay Campbell (1927-2023)
Music composed by John Floyd Campbell
Overture
Excerpted from 1990 student production Sor Juana
O Domina Speciosa
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Listen to O Domina Speciosa
Excerpted from 1990 student production Sor Juana
My Solitude Departs
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Ah, Sor Juana
Excerpted from 1990 student production Sor Juana
Questions
We Must Speak Softly
Arrival of the Bishop Puebla
Excerpted from 1990 student production Sor Juana
This Is My Reply
Credo in unum deo
My Counsel Concerns Not the Sermon
Could There Be Another Way
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They Think I Sailed
Farewell My Fancy
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Excerpted from 1990 student production Sor Juana
Recitative (Sor Juana)
Excerpted from 1990 student production Sor Juana
If We Are to live for a little while
Conclusion to Sor Juana
Excerpted from 1990 student production Sor Juana