(1974–76) is a one-act monodrama adapted from Chekhov's "On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco," with images and passages from John James Audubon's Birds of America; The Andrée Expedition (1980) includes journal entries made by Swedish balloonist Salomon Andrée and excerpts from a personal diary and letters of his companion Nils Strindberg during their failed three-man expedition in 1897 to the North Pole by hydrogen balloon; and Miss Manners on Music (1998) sets to music newspaper clippings by American 20th-century advice columnist Judith Martin (aka "Miss Manners"). One of the few major song cycles Argento has written that use "traditional" verse as a text is his popular Six Elizabethan Songs. Other solo vocal works by Argento include: Songs About Spring (1950–55), text by E. E. Cummings, for voice and piano Ode to the West Wind (1956), text by Percy Bysshe Shelley, for soprano and orchestra To Be Sung Upon the Water (1972), text by William Wordsworth, for voice, clarinet and piano The Bremen Town Musicians (1998), text by the composer, a "children's entertainment" with narrator and orchestra Major choral works Argento's The Masque of Angels (1963) has sections, such as the "Gloria" and "Sanctus", that are frequently excerpted and performed separately. His next major choral work was The Revelation of St. John the Divine (1968), which sets portions of the Book of Revelation from the Bible; it is scored for male chorus, brass, and an array of percussion instruments. Peter Quince at the Clavier (1979), a setting of the poem by Wallace Stevens, was commissioned by Pennsylvania State University in honor of the state's tercentenary (both Stevens and Argento are Pennsylvania natives). For the Dale Warland Singers, Argento wrote I Hate and I Love (1981), with text by Catullus, and Walden Pond (1996), based on excerpts from Thoreau. In 1987 Argento composed a massive Te Deum that integrates the Latin text with medieval English folk poetry. A Toccata of Galuppi's (1989), a 20-minute setting of a Robert Browning poem, is one of many works inspired by Argento's time in Florence. In 2008, the Harvard Glee Club premiered his Apollo in Cambridge, a multi-movement setting of texts by Harvard-affiliated writers of the 19th century. Other choral works by Argento include: A Nation of Cowslips (1968), seven bagatelles on nonsense text by Keats Tria Carmina Pasachalia (1970), an Easter cantata for women's chorus Jonah and the Whale (1973), a large-scale oratorio on medieval