Maury Yeston - December Songs: Voice and Piano

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Now back in print, this book matches the work commissioned for Andrea Marcovicci by the Carnegie Hall Corporation in honor of Carnegie Hall's Centennial Season. The premier was given in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on April 16, 1991. It is a song cycle in the American cabaret tradition, written in reaction to Schubert's Die Winterreise (a woman struggles to get over a devastating love affair). The songbook also features complete lyrics and a separate lyric section, notes on "December Songs" by Bernard Jacobson, and a bio of composer Maury Yeston.