{"id":7008,"date":"2026-06-12T11:45:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/?post_type=product&p=7008"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:06:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:06:59","slug":"chester-biscardi-selected-songs","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/product\/chester-biscardi-selected-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Chester Biscardi: Selected Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

This collection is a selection of individual songs as well as excerpts from three song cycles. It is as much a songbook for singers as it is a testament to my collaborations with innovative writers and exceptional performers.\u00a0The Gift of Life<\/em>\u00a0(1990-1993), written for soprano Judith Bettina and pianist James Goldsworthy, is based on texts by Emily Dickinson, Denise Levertov and Thornton Wilder. These songs speak about birth, life, memory, loss, death, and, finally, love. I don\u2019t think I would have been able to write that cycle if I had not worked with the libretto\u2014 and the characters that emerged from it\u2014of\u00a0Tight-Rope<\/em>\u00a0(1985), my chamber opera written with Henry Butler about a poet\u2019s search for identity and the risk involved not only in the search but in being true to the discovery. In other songs I set to music the words of Allen Ginsberg, Sheldon Harnick, Muriel Rukeyser and Carl Sandburg. From 1997-2002 I collaborated with William Zinsser on\u00a0Modern Love Songs<\/em>, a cycle that reflected our shared passion for the American Songbook. These songs sit somewhere between cabaret\/standard tunes and the contemporary art song. And, finally,\u00a0Sailors & Dreamers<\/em>\u00a0(2007-2010), written with Shirley Kaplan, pays tribute to the tides and the currents that carry us forward to the new and the unexpected.<\/p>\n

\u2013Chester Biscardi, January 2018<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[dflip id=\"7049\"][\/dflip]\n

Included Songs:<\/p>\n

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  1. Mama Never Forgets Her Birds<\/li>\n
  2. Baby Song of the Four Winds<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Recovering<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Guru<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Poet’s Aria<\/li>\n
  6. Prayers of Steel<\/li>\n
  7. What A Coincidence<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Someone New<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. At Any Given Moment<\/li>\n
  10. The Child Comes Every Winter<\/li>\n
  11. Chez Vous<\/li>\n
  12. You’ve Been On My Mind<\/li>\n
  13. Play Me A Song<\/li>\n
  14. I Dance The Tango<\/li>\n
  15. It’s Time to Feel Alright Now<\/li>\n
  16. Broken Stars that Go Dark<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7021,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[28,122,62,42,63,66,26,25,27],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-7008","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-baritone","product_cat-chester-biscardi","product_cat-high-voice","product_cat-individual-songs","product_cat-low-voice","product_cat-medium-voice","product_cat-mezzosoprano","product_cat-soprano","product_cat-tenor","first","instock","purchasable","product-type-variable"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/7008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=7008"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=7008"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=7008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}