We are delighted to announce publication of three very special song cycles by Timothy Bowers. The last words of famous people whether real or invented exert a strange fascination. Breaking with the tradition that a song cycle is a setting of poetry Timothy Bowers has chosen the last words of fourteen famous (in one case infamous) characters from history and two comic/ironic epitaphs by Byron as…

Book 3 in this very special series of song cycles by Timothy Bowers is for baritone and piano. The work explores texts that are by turns witty ironic and uplifting. The subjects are the poet Dylan Thomas William Pitt the Younger Oscar Wilde and Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld; and settings of two comic/ironic epitaphs by Byron - one addressed to the much-despised politician Castelreagh …