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(*unless otherwise indicated - Note that some scores are not available at this time.)

Solo Voice (Chamber)

Emily's Bees (2024) - soprano, cello (Emily Dickinson)
    1. Bee! I'm Expecting You!
    2. Answer July
    3. Bees are Black
    4. Nature
    5. A Single Clover Plank
Butterfly Days (2020) - mezzo-soprano, piano (Robert Frost - New Hampshire)
    1. Blue-Butterfly Day
    2. Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter
    3. Misgiving
    4. To Earthward
Genevieve's Cats (2017) - soprano, piano
    1. The Kitten (Wordsworth)
    2. The Cat and the Moon (Yeats)
    3. To Mrs. Reynolds's Cat (Keats)
Penny Whistles (2015) - soprano, clarinet, piano (Robert Louis Stevenson - A Child's Garden of Verses)
    1. From a Railway Carriage
    2. The Land of Nod
    3. Singing
    4. The Moon
    5. Windy Nights
    6. A Good Boy

Neutral Tones (2013) - baritone, viola (Thomas Hardy)
    1. The Self-Unseeing
    2. Looking Across
    3. The Robin
    4. Neutral Tones
performance materials available through Ars Nova Press
Three Donne Songs (2011) - mezzo-soprano, string quartet (John Donne)
    1. The Message
    2. Community
    3. The Prohibition
The Wild Winds Weep (2004) - soprano, horn, piano
    1. To a Child dancing in the Wind (Yeats)
    2. Nightpiece (Joyce)
    3. Mad Song (Blake)
Five Blake Songs (2001) - soprano, clarinet (William Blake)
    1. The Smile
    2. I heard an Angel singing
    3. The Fly
    4. Holy Thursday
    5. The Little Vagabond
performance materials available through Ars Nova Press
Drei lebendes Bilder (2000) - soprano, violin, cello
    1. Ich liege wo am Wegrand (Else Lasker-Schüler)
    2. Leb wohl, Frau Welt (Hermann Hesse)
    3. Wie grau es auch regnet (Günter Eich)
The Lover Mourns (1998) - tenor, horn, viola (W.B. Yeats)
    1. He Tells of a Valley Full of Lovers
    2. The Lover Tells of the Rose in his Heart
    3. The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love
Songs of War (1996, rev. 2007) - baritone, string quartet
    1. A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak (Whitman)
    2. In the Prison Pen (Melville)
    3. War is Kind (Crane)
Three Joyce Songs (1988) - soprano, oboe, viola, piano (James Joyce)
    1. She Weeps Over Rahoon
    2. Flood
    3. On the Beach at Fontana

Solo Voice w/Orchestra

Passage to Nod (2019) - soprano, orchestra 2,2,2,2 - 4,2,2,1 - hp, pno - strings (Robert Louis Stevenson)
    1. Looking-Glass River
    2. Autumn Fires
    3. Where Go the Boats
    4. Good-night
    5. Shadow March
    6. In Port
The Last Invocation (2016) - soprano, string orchestra with piano (Walt Whitman)
Four Songs of Solomon (2009) - tenor, orchestra 2,2,2,B Cl,2 - 4,3,3,0 - timp, 2 perc - strings (Old Testament - Song of Songs)
    1. Oh, You are Beautiful
    2. Beautiful as Tirzah
    3. Your love is Beautiful
    4. How beautiful are your sandaled feet
performance materials available through Ars Nova Press

Psalm 92 (1999) - baritone, SATB choir, orchestra 2,2,2,2 - 4,3,3,0 - timp - strings (Old Testament - Psalms)

Orchestra (without Voice)

A Midsummer Fantasy (2023) - string orchestra
Jubilate (2014) - 2,2,2,2 - 4,3,3,1 -  timp, 2 perc - strings
Tempest Fantasy (2011) - string orchestra
performance materials available through Ars Nova Press
Fantasia Concertante on Old American Tunes (2004) - viola solo, piano, string orchestra
    1. Wondrous
    2. Fly
    3. Plenty

Solo and Chamber Instrumental (without Voice)

Bond Hall (2021) - flute, clarinet, horn, violin, viola, cello
The Darkening Green (2018) - string quartet
The Warbler Descending (2011) - violin, piano
Two Fathoms Down (2008) - viola, cello, bass
    1. Scherzo
    2. Tranquillissimo
performance materials available through Ars Nova Press
What Is It For? (2003) - trumpet, organ
    1. Prelude
    2. Elegy
    3. Chaos
recording by Grant Peters (trumpet) and Charles Ore (organ) available through cdbaby.com

Choral

Dedication (2017) - SATB (traditional Irish blessing - adapted)
El Lunar (2016) - SATB (Juan Clemente Zenea)
Caminando (2016) - SATB (Nicolás Guillén)
Psalm 121 (2008) - SATB, viola
performance materials available through Ars Nova Press
Nurse's Song (2008) - SATB (William Blake)
After the Fall (2002) - SATB (Jodi Kanter)
    1.
After The Fall
    2. We
    3. Changing Home
performance materials available through Ars Nova Press
Two Crane Songs (1996) - SATB (Stephen Crane)
    1. Should the Wide World
    2. In a Place of Blackness
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