Four Songs for Baritone

Written for and premiered by Metropolitan Opera baritone, Theodor Uppman.

Texts by the composer's father, Kirke F. Mechem

1. "The Green-blooded Fish"
2. "July Rain"
3. "Inferiority Complex"
4. "A Farewell"

Press

“ …[the songs] ran a variety of character moods — playfully nonsensical, bizarre, finely melancholic, and humorous …came through with fresh feeling and imagination.”
— San Francisco Examiner