Vocal Music
Dating back into pre-history, poets and musicians have always been the ones to lift humanity up from the mundane and connect us with the deepest part of ourselves. I have always found the connection between words that go beyond words and music to be an inspiration. My favorite poets write words that seem to sing off the page and so setting their words to music seemed like a necessary and natural response.
Singers are welcome to enjoy and perform my work.
I ask that you please let me know if you download scores. Comments are welcome!
| Year | Title | Instruments | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Bridge | Fragments | Ecstasy (Hart Crane) | chamber choir | 9 minutes |
| 2024 | Espenbaum (Paul Celan) | chamber choir | 5 minutes |
| 2024 | Butterflies (Peter Levitt) | soprano & piano | 7 minutes |
| 2024 | Dos Casidas (Federico Garcia Lorca) | baritone voice & piano | 7 minutes |
| 2024 | Stars (various poets) | chorus, 3 trombones, string orchestra | 17 minutes |
| 2022 | Lullabies Without Words (for the Tsirani Ensemble) | soprano, 2 duduks, tar, oud | 10 minutes |
| 2022 | Canciones de la Tierra (Federico Garcia Lorca) | mezzo soprano & viola | 15 minutes |
| 2021 | Temptresses (various poets) | 2 mezzo sopranos & 2 violins | 15 minutes |
| 2021 | Voices of Afghanistan (various poets) | chamber choir & violin | 14 minutes |
| 2021 | The Peace of Wild Things (and other songs) (Poems by Wendell Berry, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Sara Teasdale, William Carlos Williams) | countertenor, traverso, viola, violoncello, theorbo | 17 minutes |
| 2008 | Love's Little Pleasures (various poets) | soprano & piano | 15 minutes |
| 2021 | Idilio (Federico Garcia Lorca) | soprano & piano | 3 minutes |
| 2021 | Several Simple Songs (C.F. Cilliers) | soprano & piano | 10 minutes |
| 2021 | 2 Sonnets (William Shakespeare) | soprano, flute, clarinet, viola | 9 minutes |
| 2021 | 4xM and Other Blues (Richard Leach) | baritone & piano | 11 minutes |
| 2020 | Moot! (the Supreme Court of the United States) | nine voices | 3 minutes |
| 2020 | Schnee und Eis (Rose Ausländer) | soprano & viola | 6 minutes |
| 2015 | Rozmowa z kamieniem (Wisława Szymborska) | soprano, 2 violas, cello | 13 minutes |
| 2020 | Les Fugitifs (R.M. Rilke) | mezzo soprano & viola | 5 minutes |
| 2020 | 1918 (Ellen Bryant Voigt) | mezzo soprano, violin, 2 violas, cello | 20 minutes |
| 2020 | Litany (Stephen Vincent Benét) | baritone & piano | 3 minutes |
| 2020 | Artist (Madhu Raghavendra) | soprano & piano | 3 minutes |
| 2020 | To Pain (Peter Levitt) | baritone & piano | 4 minutes |
| 2020 | say their names (words from a news story) | soprano & piano | 7 minutes |
| 2020 | An Incalculable Loss (poems by Richard Leach and Norman Fischer) | mezzo soprano & cello | 12 minutes |
| 2020 | Missing Voices (Richard Leach) | soprano & cello | 6 minutes |
| 2020 | Selections from 'Words for Music Perhaps' (W.B. Yeats) | mezzo soprano, baritone, piano | 8 minutes |
| 1976 | A Meditation in Time of War (W.B. Yeats) | baritone & piano | 2 minutes |
| 2020 | Dust Song (Richard Leach) | soprano, piano | 3 minutes |
| 2020 | The Whirr of Wings (Poems by Lola Ridge, Stephen Crane, Carl Sandburg, Jane Hirshfield, May Sarton, Joy Harjo) | chorus, flute, viola, cello | 35 minutes |
| 2019 | Two Ballads (Richard Leach) | soprano, clarinet, viola, cello, piano | 8 minutes |
| 2019 | The Aim Was Song (Robert Frost) | soprano & cello | 3 minutes |
| 2019 | This Hour (Rose Auslander) | soprano, tenor, vn, va, vc, harpsichord | 11 minutes |
| 2019 | Blossoms (Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger) | soprano, viola d'amore, cello | 22 minutes |
| 2019 | Selections from Les Roses (R.M. Rilke) | soprano, oboe, violin | 9 minutes |
| 2018 | Le Lay de Plour (Guillaume Machaut) | contralto, flute, violin, cello, piano | 40 minutes |
| 2018 | Vier Gedichte - tanka (Ingborg K. Hoflehner) | mezzo soprano, viola d'amore | 6 minutes |
| 2018 | Der Februar (Erich Kastner) | soprano, viola d'amore | 4 minutes |
| 2018 | La selva de los relojes (Federico Garcia Lorca) | mezzo soprano, viola, piano | 21 minutes |
| 2018 | Collected Villanelles (Poems by Theodore Roethke, Harvey Stanbrough, Sylvia Plath and E.A. Arlington) | chamber choir | 16 minutes |
| 2017 | The Violin Sings in a Common Language | soprano, violin | 13 minutes |
| 2015 | 2 Love Songs (Heine) | countertenor, vn, vc, theorbo | 4 minutes |
| 2017 | A Collection of Songs to Poems by C.F. Cilliers (C.F. Cilliers) | sop, piano | 19 minutes |
| 1975 | Earth and Sea (Eskimo texts) | soprano, piano | 3 minutes |
| 2004 | Vignettes/Trees (W.C. Williams) | 2 voices, 2 cellos | 15 minutes |
| 2003 | Love Poems (W.C. Williams) | SSAA | 10 minutes |
| 2002 | Vignettes/Flowers (W.C. Williams) | SATB, cello | 18 minutes |
| 1999 | Crazy Jane Sings (W.B. Yeats) | soprano, fl, vn, va, vc, pn | 25 minutes |
| 1987 | To a Child (W.B. Yeats) | soprano, string quartet | 20 minutes |
| 1983 | 6 Songs (W.B. Yeats) | soprano, piano | 15 minutes |
| 1978 | Preludes (T.S. Eliot) | soprano, violin, cello | 10 minutes |
| 2005 | Thinking of You (John MacKenzie) | soprano, cello, harp | 7 minutes |
| 2005 | Ariettas without words | soprano, cello, harp | 9 minutes |
| 2005 | Scetate (Ferdinando Russo) | SSATTBB | 6 minutes |
| 1975 | The Snow Begins (W.C. Williams) | soprano, piano | 3 minutes |
| 2012 | Songs von Verlust und Errinerung (R.M. Rilke) | sop, viola d'amore, viola, cello | 12 minutes |
| 2012 | Sonnets to Orpheus (Rilke) | tenor, piano | 35 minutes |
| 2010 | Seasons (W.C. Williams) | SATB | 11 minutes |
| 2010 | 4 Songs to Poems by Hart Crane (Hart Crane) | tenor, piano | 12 minutes |
| 2009 | 5 Rilke Songs (R.M. Rilke) | soprano, viola d'amore, cello | 15 minutes |
| 2006 | In Their Flight (Mark Doty) | sop, mezzo, violin, cello | 6 minutes |
