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Ricky Ian Gordon was born on May 15, 1956 in Oceanside, NY and raised on Long Island. After studying composition at Carnegie Mellon University, he settled in New York City, where he quickly emerged as a leading writer of vocal music that spans art song, opera, and musical theater. Mr. Gordon’s songs have been performed and or recorded by such internationally renowned singers as Renee Fleming, Da...read more

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Top Tracks of Ricky Ian Gordon

Will There Really Be A Morning?
Souvenir
Stars
Heaven
Dream Variations
Joy
Song for a Dark Girl
Run Away
A Horse With Wings
Orpheus
Afternoon on a Hill
Daybreak in Alabama
The Red Dress
Once I Was
What Shall We Remember? (Arr. for Piano)
A Lullaby
Just An Ordinary Guy* - Vocal
Poor Girl's Ruination / Dream Keeper
We Will Always Walk Together
A Contemporary
Genius Child: My People
Euridice
Act 1 - Prologue
Wild Swans
The House Without a Christmas Tree: He's Mean
When Sue Wears Red
I'm Open All Night
Love Song for Lucinda
New Moon
Finding Home
Bliss
Will There Really Be A Morning
Prayer
Home
Song
27, Act I: Prologue, Alice Knits the World
They Dance
27, Act IV: Introduction, "Twice Denying a War"
Bus Stop
Is It Too Late?
My People
Illness
Kid In The Park
Prologue
Death
Troubled Woman
The Journey Back
In Time of Silver Rain
What Shall We Remember?
Hold On
The Underworld
The Light Comes On By Itself
Epilogue
Lullaby
Harlem Night Song
The Different Albertines (from "My Life With Albertine")
Horse With Wings
I love sweets
Conclusion
Home Of The Brave
Border Line
27, Act I: Scene 1, 27 Rue de Fleurus
Genius Child
Resume / Wail / Frustration
Fried Dough (from "The Grapes Of Wrath")
Huit Chansons de Fleurs: No. 1, We Should Not Mind So Small a Flower
27, Act I: Scene 2, Gertrude Sits for Pablo
Resume/Wail/Frustration
Friend
Virginia Woolf
Drivers of Diaper Sevice Trucks Are Sad
If It Is True
Bric-A-Brac (from "Autumn Valentine")
Strange Hurt
White Haired Woman
Midnight Lake
Fewer Words
My Mother Is A Singer (from "Sycamore Trees")
To Be Somebody
Talk About the Weather
Huit Chansons de Fleurs: No. 2, I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud
Three Leaving (from "The Making of Americans")
Huit Chansons de Fleurs: No. 5, Peonies at Dusk
Act II - Interlude
The House Without a Christmas Tree: Piano Interlude 1
Interlude
If I Should Learn
Sycamore Trees: My Mother is a Singer
Three by Langston: Joy
Balbec-by-the-Sea
Recuerdo
Song 2
Huit Chansons de Fleurs: No. 6, Her Garden
Huit Chansons de Fleurs: No. 3, The Tulips
Huit Chansons de Fleurs: No. 4, One Perfect Rose
Huit Chansons de Fleurs: No. 7, Afterlife with Lilacs
Litany
Port Town
Rappahannock County: Part I: Recitative: Farewell, Old Dominion (Clement Davis)
Winter Moon
27, Act II: Scene 1, Chatter
Autobiographia Literaria
Only Heaven: Angel's Wings
The Spring And The Fall
God Is There
We Will Always Walk Together (from "Dream True")
Every Day a Little Death
Pont Mirabeau
Lullaby (from "Autumn Valentine")
Home Is There (from "Toby Tyler")
Threnody (from "Autumn Valentine")
The Different Albertines
The House Without a Christmas Tree: Piano Interlude 3
Huit Chansons de Fleurs: No. 8, Play, Orpheus
Callas is my favorite singer
Just Now
A Coffin in Egypt: It Was Him or Me
27, Act I: Scene 3, Back at the Salon
Interior (from "Autumn Valentine")
I Need Me A Girl
Why am I a girl?
My Soul Weeps
The House Without a Christmas Tree: I'm a Writer Now
Rappahannock County: Part I: Trio: Sanctified by God (Rev. Zachariah Springer) - A Noble Institution (Mrs. Laticia Saunders) - States' Rights (Jefferson Adams)
Janet Underneath The Roses
I Want You
A Beautiful Life (feat. Usb960664106)
Dreams/Feet o’ Jesus
Sad Balbec
Ferret Song
Nervous
Albertine's Last Letter
Beat Me A Crown
Love Song for Antonia
The Best Years of Our Lives
Late Afternoon: VI. Let Evening Come
A Coffin in Egypt: The Mulatto
Question
The Letters
Even as a child, I saw
My Soul Weeps (Tango)
On the third day of being home
Rappahannock County: Part IV: Hallie-Ann (Grace Beaufort)
The Journey Bar
February eighth
Transition
Waltz
Pride
The House Without a Christmas Tree: What Happened to the Tree?
Dream True
The House Without a Christmas Tree: What Do You Think? - That's Where I Grew Up
He's Gone
Wyoming
The Genius Child: III. Kid in the Park - Live
The House Without a Christmas Tree: Ask Him!
Adolescent’s Song
The House Without a Christmas Tree: I Bring Great News
The House Without a Christmas Tree: We Don't Want Anyone Left out of the Gift Exchange!
27, Act V: "I've Been Called Many Things"
Rappahannock County: Part II: Being Small (Reuben Lark)
27, Act III: Introduction, "Lost Boys"
27, Act III: "He's Gone, Honey"
27, Act III: "Come Meet May Ray"
Poor Girl's Ruination/The Dream Keeper
27, Act II: Scene 2, Doughboy
27, Act III: "How Would You Choose?"
Song Two
A Coffin in Egypt: A Coffin in Egypt
Such a Night
Adolescent’s Song
Only Heaven
Angel's Wings (From "Only Heaven")
Sometimes
Song of Solitude
But What I Say
Three by Langston: New Moon
But What I Say (Reprise)
Epilogue/Hymn
January sixteenth
Rappahannock County, Pt. 1: Mine (Live)
Jerry Hammer
Late Afternoon: V. What the Living Do
Slow, furtive
When I open my eyes in the morning
February fifteenth
January twenty-first
About five years ago
Now, at the Beginning
Five Dances - 1. Tango
Have a Nice Day
We Can Fly
The Way West
The Genius Child: IV. To be somebody - Live
Rappahannock County, Pt. 1: Farewell, Old Dominion (Live)
Rappahannock County, Pt. 1: Trio. Sanctified by God - A Noble Institution - States' Rights (Live)
Rappahannock County, Pt. 2: Being Small (Live)
Rappahannock County, Pt. 1: Victory at Manassas (Live)
Rappahannock County, Pt. 1: Recitative. Farewell, Old Dominion (Live)
Father's Song
The Good Death
The House Without a Christmas Tree: This. Is. Impossible.
The House Without a Christmas Tree: You Were Lucky, Addie!
The House Without a Christmas Tree: Oh, Boy.
The House Without a Christmas Tree: I Will Live in the Woods with Delmer Doakes
The House Without a Christmas Tree: This Is a Present from Carla Mae to Delmer
The House Without a Christmas Tree: Moo. Thank You.
Too Few the Mornings Be: No. 1, Too Few the Mornings Be
Space
A Coffin in Egypt: I Live On
Rappahannock County: Part IV: In Their Eyes (Cornelia MacDonald)
Rappahannock County: Part III: All I Ever Known (Lily Quinn)
27, Act IV: "Jury of My Canvas"
27, Act V: Introduction, "There Once Lived Two Women"
A Coffin in Egypt: In Algiers
I'm nobody
Three by Langston: Luck
The Street
The Genius Child: I. Winter moon - Live
They Dance (from Orpheus and Euridice)
Dearest, I remember how at eighteen
The train ride yesterday
March thirtieth..
The Caste System - II. Very Slow and Hesitant
Desire Rag
Rappahannock County: Part V: This Was Our House (Susan Johnson and Family)
Rappahannock County: Part V: Jumping the Broom (Dorothea Henry, Jones Henry)
Five Dances - 5. Joy
Ring-A-Ding-Ding (for Piano Four Hands)
Five Dances - 2. Waltz
Water Music (cont.)
Water Music: A Requiem I
Best for You
Peter's Dream
Wyoming (Reprise)
The Genius Child: II. Genius Child - Live
The Genius Child: V. Troubled Woman - Live
The Genius Child: VI. Strange Hurt - Live
The Genius Child: X. Joy - Live
Rappahannock County: Part I: Mine (Two Nameless Slaves)
Water Music: A Requiem: I.
Water Music: A Requiem - II
Rappahannock County: Part II: Making Maps (Jed Hotchkiss)
Rappahannock County: Part II: Rappahannock (Two Newly Freed Slaves)
Rappahannock County: Interlude No. 3
Late Afternoon: I. Otherwise
Too Few the Mornings Be: No. 5, You Cannot Put a Fire Out
Late Afternoon: IV. Just Now
Rappahannock County: Part IV: For Love of Country (Elias Leggett)
Late Afternoon: III. "X"
Too Few the Mornings Be: No. 6, Bee! I'm Expecting You!
Too Few the Mornings Be: No. 2, If All the Griefs I Am to Have
Rappahannock County: Part II: I Seen Snow (Travis Bledsoe)
A Coffin in Egypt: Iris (Red)
A Coffin in Egypt: Captain Lawson
A Coffin in Egypt: Trees/If I Can Only Get it Told
A Coffin in Egypt: Zechariah
A Coffin in Egypt: Lois and Lorena
Rappahannock County: Part I: Farewell, Old Dominion (Clement Davis)
A Coffin in Egypt: The Open Prairie
A Coffin in Egypt: Little Brother
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