Bell Tower and Other Art Songs: Music by Georgia Stitt Sheet Music Now available Digitally and In Print

NEW YORK, NY – July 20, 2026 – Hal Leonard Publishing and Concord Theatricals today announce the release of a new songbook of works by American composer Georgia Stitt entitled Bell Tower and Other Art Songs. The songbook features 35 works by Stitt, including the 26 theatrical art songs included on Stitt’s album Bell Tower, released on Concord Theatricals Recordings in March 2026, as well as sheet music for Stitt’s acclaimed Alphabet City Cycle and a selection of songs from previous recordings. The repertoire on Bell Tower and Other Art Songs is appropriate for classical and musical theater performers, alike. The songbook is available in digital and print editions.

Georgia Stitt is an award-winning composer, lyricist, music producer, and pianist whose work spans Broadway, concert music, film, television, and choral repertoire. Her songs are celebrated for their expressive melodies, sophisticated storytelling, and deep emotional resonance.
 
“I am thrilled that there is at last a printed songbook of the sheet music for my art songs now available through Hal Leonard, thanks to my team at Concord Theatricals,” says Georgia Stitt. “This book includes the songs on my new album Bell Tower as well as the entire Alphabet City Cycle and a handful of art songs from earlier recordings that haven't yet been in print. What I want more than anything is for this collection to wind up on the shelves of singers, voice teachers, music directors, coaches, people who program concerts and recitals, people who make song recordings, people who love poetry settings, people who need funny little short songs for auditions, people who just want to follow along with the recordings...and more. My compositional voice has always lived in the shared space between classical and musical theatre, and writing this trove of songs has allowed me stand with a foot in each community. These poems are actable, funny, both literary and common, and I am delighted that they are now part of the art song canon!”
 
Compositions in the songbook stretch across three decades of Stitt’s career: from the “Two London Songs” written in the 1990s when she was an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, to “The Trumpet,” written in the summer of 2025. On the Bell Tower album, the art songs are performed by Broadway stars and recording artists including Kate Baldwin (Hello, Dolly!, Big Fish, Finian's Rainbow), Sierra Boggess (The Little Mermaid, The Phantom of the Opera), Tituss Burgess (The Little Mermaid,  Jersey Boys,  Moulin Rouge!), Nikki Renée Daniels (Once Upon a Mattress, Company, Hamilton), Andrea Jones-Sojola (The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, The Music Man), Marc Kudisch (Girl from the North Country, Finding Neverland, Thoroughly Modern Millie), Rebecca Luker (Phantom of the Opera, The Sound of Music, The Secret Garden), Ruthie Ann Miles (The King and I, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George), Kelli O’Hara (The King and I, The Light in the Piazza, The Bridges of Madison County), and two-time GRAMMY® award winner Hila Plitmann. Also in the songbook is the full Alphabet City Cycle, recorded previously for a digital EP by Award-nominee Kate Baldwin, and art songs “Sonnet 29,” “These Two,” “Love After Love,” and “The Water Is Wide.”
 
The title Bell Tower comes from the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. Stitt collected more poetry for these songs from sources spanning the New York City subway (Alicia Partnoy’s poem “Communication,” featured in an MTA ad campaign), to poetry collections (where she found works by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, Dorothy Parker, Connie Bensley, and Wendy Cope), to gems by Sara Teasdale, Margaret Funkhouser, Lorine Niedecker, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Henry Hutchingson, Christina Rossetti, and Edward Thomas. Stitt commissioned additional poems from friends Faye Greenberg, Angelica Chéri, Mindi Dickstein, Anika Chapin, and Ta’Rea Campbell.
 
Sheet music for Bell Tower and Other Art Songs is available to purchase HERE

 

Bell Tower and Other Art Songs: Music by Georgia Stitt
 
Alan's Dead
Almost Everything I Need (The Divorcée On Avenue C)
Blanket In July (The Jilted Actress In Tompkins Square Park)
Bloody Men
Brief Passage
Central Park At Dusk
Communication
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
Exterminator
From Halcyon Hall
The Heart Of A Woman
Hold Fast Your Dreams
Hutchinson Sonnet
I Hardly Remember (The Widow On Avenue D)
Let This Darkness Be A Bell Tower
London
Love After Love
Masked Behavior
Permissive Society
Re-Creation
Small Talk
Sonnet 29
Sunday Light (The Lover On Avenue A)
Tectonic Plates
That Look
These Two
The True Nature Of Evil
The Trumpet
A Very Short Song
The Wanting Of You (The Student On Avenue B)
The Water Is Wide
What Horror To Awake At Night
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
When I Am Dead
Why I Avoid Eye Contact

About Georgia Stitt
Georgia Stitt is a composer/lyricist, music director, pianist, and music producer. Her original musicals include Snow Child (commissioned by Arena Stage and directed by Molly Smith); Samantha Spade, Ace Detective (commissioned by TADA Youth Theater and written with Lisa Diana Shapiro, National Youth Theatre 2014 Winner “Outstanding New Musical”); Big Red Sun (NAMT Festival winner in 2010, Harold Arlen Award in 2005, written with playwright John Jiler); The Water (winner of the 2008 ANMT Search for New Voices in American Musical Theatre and written with Jeff Hylton and Tim Werenko); and Mosaic (commissioned for Inner Voices Off-Broadway in 2010 and written with Cheri Steinkellner). Other shows include The Danger Year (a musical revue); The Big Boom (with Hunter Foster), Common Ground, and the upcoming dance musical Girls Just Want to Have Fun for Lively McCabe Entertainment. Georgia is also currently writing an oratorio called The Circling Universe that has been developed at Princeton University.
 
Georgia has produced and released five albums of her music: Bell Tower (2026), A Quiet Revolution (2020), My Lifelong Love (2014), Alphabet City Cycle (2009), and This Ordinary Thursday (2007).
 
Georgia’s other compositions include Duet for Flute and Piano, #1 (commissioned and recorded by flutist Janet Axelrod), Fanfare for the Ups and Downs (commissioned by the Cincinnati Symphony and premiered by clarinetist Chris Pell), and several choral pieces: With Hope And Virtue, using text from President Obama’s 2009 inauguration speech and featured on NPR as part of Judith Clurman’s Sing Out, Mister President! cycle, De Profundis, premiered by the International Orange Chorale in San Francisco, and Joyful Noise, a setting of Psalm 100 (all published by G. Schirmer), as well as A Better Resurrection and The Promise of Light, published by Walton Music and performed often by the LA Master Chorale. Recent commissions include Do Not Stand At My Grave for the Hilton Head Choral Society and Orchestra and Pretty Women/Beautiful Girls, an arrangement of Stephen Sondheim songs for LA-based women’s choir Vox Femina. Waiting for Wings, co-written with husband Jason Robert Brown for orchestra and narrator, was commissioned by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra and premiered there in 2013 with conductor John Morris Russell. Georgia has served as the composer-in-residence at Pasadena Presbyterian Church in California and for the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York City. She has performed her music on tour throughout the US and in England, Scotland, Australia, Denmark, Germany, China, and Japan.
 
Georgia was the music director of 13: The Musical, which was released on Netflix in 2022, and the on-set music supervisor for the Anna Kendrick/Jeremy Jordan film The Last Five Years. She has previously worked in the music department of NBC’s shows America’s Got Talent, Clash of the Choirs, and Grease: You’re The One That I Want, as well as the Disney/ABC TV musical Once Upon A Mattress starring Tracey Ullman and Carol Burnett. Her New York theatre credits include Little Shop of Horrors (Broadway), Do Re Mi and Can-Can (starring Patti LuPone, both for Encores), Sweet Charity (Off-Broadway, starring Sutton Foster), Avenue Q, Sweet Smell of Success, The Music Man, Titanic, Annie, and both the 2000 national tour and the 2023 Broadway revival of Parade. She has performed as music director and pianist with The Boston Pops at Symphony Hall and Tanglewood and with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. In 2014 she played a nun on camera and also served of the music team for NBC’s The Sound Of Music Live! with Carrie Underwood and Audra McDonald, and in 2021 she made a cameo appearance (as herself) in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s film Tick, Tick… Boom!
 
Georgia is the Founder and President of Maestra, an organization that provides support, visibility, and community for women and gender-expansive theater musicians, and through that work she has won an Obie Award and has been featured in Forbes, Billboard, Playbill, Opera News, and The New York Times. In collaboration with Lin-Manuel Miranda, she and her team at Maestra created the RISE Theatre Directory which seeks to build a more equitable and inclusive theater industry. She is also in leadership at The Dramatists Guild and The Recording Academy’s Songwriters & Composers Wing. Other proud memberships include ASCAP, the American Federation of Musicians (Local 802), and MUSE (Musicians United for Social Equity).
 
Georgia received her M.F.A. in Musical Theater Writing from NYU and her B.Mus. in Music Theory and Composition from Vanderbilt University‘s Blair School of Music, where she graduated magna cum laude. She teaches Musical Theater Writing at Princeton University and has previously taught at USC and Pace University. She is a recipient of the 2023 “Go Write A Musical” Lilly Award, a MUSE Award from the Prospect Theater and an Inspire Award from the Foundation of New American Musicals, an Advocacy Award from Arts Ignite, the Jamie deRoy and Friends Award, the Harold Arlen Award, and the Frederick Loewe Fellowship from ASCAP, and the Sue Brewer Award for excellence in music composition
 
Georgia lives in New York with her husband, composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown, and their two wonderful daughters.

About Concord Theatricals Recordings

Recent albums released by Concord Theatricals Recordings include the newly GRAMMY® Award-nominated Death Becomes Her (Original Broadway Cast Recording); the GRAMMY® Award-winning Into The Woods (2022 Broadway Cast Recording), starring Sara Bareilles, and Some Like It Hot (Original Broadway Cast Recording) by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman; and the GRAMMY®-nominated Mr. Saturday Night (Original Broadway Cast Recording), starring Billy Crystal, Come From Away (Original Broadway Cast Recording), Amélie (Original London Cast Recording) and Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel (2018 Broadway Cast Recording). Other releases include the final original Sondheim cast album, Here We Are; SMASH (Original Broadway Cast Recording); My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert (Live from Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Jason Robert Brown & Stephen Sondheim: Live in Concert; Jessica Vosk’s SLEIGH; Shaina Taub’s As You Like It (Original Public Works Cast Recording); Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey’s The Visitor, starring David Hyde Pierce; Jason Robert Brown’s The Connector, Antonio Banderas and Teatro del Soho CaixaBank’s Spanish cast albums of Godspell, Company and A Chorus Line; and studio cast recordings of Carmel Dean’s Well-Behaved Women; Zachary & Weiner’s 17 Again, featuring Casey Likes and Eden Espinosa; Douglas J. Cohen’s The Big Time, starring Santino Fontana and Debbie Gravitte, and DRAG: The Musical (The Studio Recording). Theatre artist/songwriter albums include Jaime Lozano & The Familia’s Songs By An Immigrant Vols. 2 and 3, Florencia Cuenca and Jaime Lozano’s Broadway en Spanglish, Darius de Haas’s Let Me Carry You This Christmas, Sondheim In The City by Melissa Errico, and Jason Robert Brown’s Coming From Inside The House, featuring Ariana Grande and Shoshana Bean. www.concordtheatricals.com

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