WINK & WONDER - poetry by Douglas Atwill (2019)
Bass & piano
- Morning at the Temple
- Camera Ready
- Fairy Circle
- Beloved Girl
- The Visitor
- composed for Talen Swan
A NIGHT at the OPERA - poetry by Douglas Atwill (2018)
Tenor & piano
- Steamship Ballroom
- Grapefruit and English Muffin
- Volare
- A Night at the Opera
BOTANY for the GODS - poetry by Janet Joyner (2016)
Soprano & piano
- Cassandra
- Botany for the Gods
- Rain Song (Homage to Paul Verlaine)
- Decoherence as My Way Out of the Quantum Mechanics of Underpants
- In a Goolagong Bog
- Lift Off
- composed for Christine Graham
BLACK DAY, BRIGHT DAY- poetry by Louise Labé, translation by Willis Barnstone (2013)
Contralto & piano (6'21")
- Sonnet XIV Although I Cry (3'54")
- Sonnet XV To Honor the Return of Sparkling Sun (2'27")
- composed for Rehanna Thelwell
I SPILL MY SOUL- poetry by E.E. Cummings (2009)
Soprano & piano
- Thy fingers make early flowers of all things (2'05")
- this is the garden; colors come and go, (5'30")
- (sitting in a tree--) (1'40")
- O Thou to whom the musical white spring (2'17")
COWBOY DREAMS- Three arrangements of songs from the Western Frontier
Tenor or high baritone & piano (8'15")
- The Cowboy's Dream (3'30")
- The Pecos Stream (2'35")
- The Big Corral (2'10)
FOUR SONGS of the HEART- poetry by Kathleen Raine (2009)
Mezzo-soprano & piano (12')
- Lament
- Nocturn
- Purify
- The Healing Spring
FOUR SONNETS by PABLO NERUDA, Set 1- English translations by Stephen Tapscott (2006)
Soprano or Mezzo-soprano & piano (12')
- I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz (Morning)
- Don't go far off, not even for a day (Afternoon)
- They're liars, those who say I lost the moon (Evening)
- When I die, I want your hands on my eyes (Night)
- commissioned by Arlene Shrut
FOUR SONNETS by PABLO NERUDA, Set 2- English translations by Stephen Tapscott (2008)
Soprano or mezzo-soprano & piano (14')
- If your eyes were not the color of the moon (Morning)
- Your hand flew from my eyes into the day(Afternoon)
- Maybe—though I do not bleed—I am wounded (Evening)
- And now you’re mine. Rest with your dream into my dream (Night)
- commissioned by Eileen Strempel and Sylvie Beaudette
QUATRE MELODIES DE RONSARD-- poetry by Pierre de Ronsard (2007)
Baritone or mezzo-soprano & piano (11')
- Quand je te vois, seule…
- Bonjour, mon coeur
- À sa guitare
- Je suis homme, né pour mourir
- dedicated to Carol Kimball
NIGHT DREAMS-- poetry by Margaret Atwood (2006)
Soprano or mezzo-soprano & piano (17')
- Night Poem
- Siren Song
- Variations on the Word Sleep
- Flying Inside Your Own Body
- commissioned by Eileen Strempel and Sylvie Beaudette
AWAKE on a SPRING NIGHT-- poetry by Betty Andrews (1994)
Soprano or mezzo-soprano & piano (12')
- When I Was Young
- The Time Comes
- New Grass
- Awake On A Spring Night
- The Shape of Laughter
THE SECRET HISTORY of WATER-- poetry by Silvia Curbelo (2003)
Soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor or baritone & piano
- The Blackbirds Take Over the Sky (3'56")
- The Secret History of Water (4'40")
- The Death of the Tango (4'03")
- The Lake Has Swallowed the Whole Sky (4'37")
- Drinking Song (3'54")
- For All The Goodbyes (4'37")
- Dreaming Horse (2'15")
- The Room Was A Pond (4'04")
- I’m in love, I’m floating (3'25")
- Last Call (5'10")
- Janis Joplin (3'24")
- Some nights you crank up the car radio and just drive (5'08")
- The Simple Geography of Leaving (4'26")
- Spontaneous Human Combustion (2'20")
THREE SONGS for BASS-BARITONE-- poetry by Thomas Carew; Dante Gabriel Rossetti; anon. (2012)
Bass-baritone & piano (12')
- Celia Singing (5'30")
- Song and Music (4'15")
- A Short History of Medicine (2'00")
- composed for Toby Kidd
Tres Cançoes-- Portuguese poems by Ricardo, del Melo Neto & de Morales
Tenor or soprano & piano (8')
- Canto Da Juriti
- Poema
- Soneto De Separaçao
- Composed for Ricardo Pereira
DE AMOR OSCURO-- Spanish poetry by Federico Alarcón (2004)
Tenor or soprano & piano (5')
- Me diste una canasta de manzanas
- Desde que conoci en el camino
- Composed for Ricardo Pereira