List of Works

Voice and Piano

* Quatre mélodies de Ronsard - baritone or mezzo soprano - composed in honor of Carol Kimball
  1. Quand je te vois, seule…
  2. Bonjour, mon coeur
  3. À sa guitare
  4. Je suis homme, né pour mourir
* Four Sonnets by Pablo Neruda, Set 1 - soprano or mezzo soprano - poetry by Pablo Neruda, translations by Stephen Tapscott - commissioned by Arlene Shrut
  1. Sonnet XVII: from Manana (Morning)
    I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz
  2. Sonnet XLV: from Mediodia (Afternoon) Don't go far off, not even for a day
  3. Sonnet LVII: Tarde (Evening) They're liars, those who say I lost the moon
  4. Sonnet LXXXIX: from Noche (Night) When I die, I want your hands on my eyes
* Four Sonnets by Pablo Neruda, Set 2 - soprano or mezzo soprano - poetry by Pablo Neruda, translations by Stephen Tapscott - commissioned by Eileen Strempel and Sylvie Beaudette
  1. Sonnet VIII: from Manana (Morning) If your eyes were not the color of the moon
  2. Sonnet XXXV: from Mediodia (Afternoon) Your hand flew from my eyes into the day
  3. Sonnet LXX: Tarde (Evening) Maybe—though I do not bleed—I am wounded
  4. Sonnet LXXXI: from Noche (Night) And now you’re mine. Rest with your dream into my dream
* Três Canções - tenor or soprano - commissioned by Ricardo Pereira
  1. Canto Da Juriti - poetry by Cassiano Ricardo
  2. Poema - poetry by João Cabral de Melo Neto
  3. Soneto De Separaçao - poetry by Vinícius de Morales
* De Amor Oscuro - tenor or soprano- poetry by Federico Alarcón
  1. Me diste una canasta de manzanas
  2. Desde que conoci en el camino
* Night Dreams - soprano or mezzo soprano - poetry by Margaret Atwood - commissioned by Eileen Strempel and Sylvie Beaudette
  1. Night Poem
  2. Siren Song
  3. Variations on the Word Sleep
  4. Flying Inside Your Own Body

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* The Secret History of Water (14 songs for voice and piano) - poetry by Silvia Curbelo
  1. The Blackbirds Take Over the Sky
  2. The Secret History of Water
  3. The Death of the Tango
  4. The Lake Has Swallowed the Whole Sky
  5. Drinking Song
  6. For All The Goodbyes
  7. Dreaming Horse
  8. The Room Was A Pond
  9. I’m in love, I’m floating
  10. Last Call
  11. Janis Joplin
  12. Some nights you crank up the car radio and just drive
  13. The Simple Geography of Leaving
  14. Spontaneous Human Combustion
* Awake on a Spring Night - soprano or mezzo soprano - poetry by Betty Andrews
  1. When I Was Young
  2. The Time Comes
  3. New Grass
  4. Awake On A Spring Night
  5. The Shape of Laughter
* Absences - poetry by Philip Larkin
* The Salley Gardens - poetry by W. B. Yeats
* Sweet, stay awhile - poetry by John Donne
* Hotel Garden - poetry by Carl Tomlinson

Tenor, oboe and piano

* The Poet's Pen poetry by Menecrates

Soprano, clarinet and piano

* Three Songs from “Gleanings” poetry by Betty Andrews
  1. Anxiety
  2. The Small Girl, Long Since Old
  3. Not To Be Taken Internally (I Swallowed My Anger)

Multiple solo voices and piano

* Lullaby for the Earth - two tenors, two baritones and piano poetry by Perry Brass

Voice and Guitar

* Songs of Need and Desire - soprano, mezzo soprano, or tenor
  1. Sonnet (1928) poetry by Elizabeth Bishop
  2. Not In Time poetry by Kathleen Raine
  3. Lyric 4 poetry by Perry Brass

Voice and Trombone

* Vocalissimus poetry by Wallace Stevens

Voice and String Quartet

* I've Always Had Some Problems with the Resurrection - baritone or mezzo soprano poetry by Betty Andrews

Large Choral Works

* Feet of Jesus - Soprano saxophone, soprano and baritone soloists, chorus and organ

poetry by Langston Hughes
  1. Feet o' Jesus - Soprano saxophone, soprano solo, chorus, organ
  2. Prayer - SATB, a cappella
  3. Shout - SATB, a cappella
  4. Litany/Sinner - Soprano solo, baritone solo, soprano sax, SATB and organ
  5. Fire - Baritone solo, SATB, a cappella
  6. Angels Wings - Soprano solo, baritone solo, SATB, a cappella
  7. Spirituals - Soprano solo, baritone solo, soprano sax, SATB and organ
* Philosophia Perennis - Mezzo soprano, men's chorus, flugelhorn and piano texts compiled from Aldous Huxley’s The Perennial Philosopher
  1. What is Man? - Mezzo soprano, TTBB, a cappella
  2. Good and Evil - Mezzo soprano, TTBB, a cappella
  3. The Buddha’s Fire Sermon - Mezzo soprano, TTBB, a cappella
  4. The Fallen Spirit - Mezzo soprano, TTBB, flugelhorn and piano
  5. Evolution - Mezzo soprano, TTBB, flugelhorn and piano
* Eagle Poem - Trumpet in C, SATB double chorus, a cappella poetry by Joy Harjo

Other Choral Works

* Words From an Artist's Palette - TTBB a cappella Commissioned by the Santa Fe Desert Chorale
  1. Ad caelum scalas anima non invenit mea nisi per terrae pulchritudinem. Michelangelo
  2. La funzione dei moscoli è di tirare non di spingere, eccetto nel caso dei genitali e della lingua. Leonardo da Vinci
  3. Dejad que mis enemigos se devoren entre ellos. Salvador Dali
  4. Bénis sont-ils qui voient de belles choses dans les endroits humbles où d'autres ne voient rien. Camille Pissarro
  5. I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move. Georgia O'Keefe
* Three Spells - SSAA a cappella poetry by Kathleen Raine commissioned by Nancy Hadden and Psalite
  1. Spell Against Sorrow
  2. Love Spell
  3. Spell of Creation with flute obligato
* Mesa Songs - SSAATTBB a cappella, rain stick, Indian flute and Indian drum poetry by Betty Andrews
  1. High Mesa Land
  2. There Is A Color In Nature
  3. Power
* Anacreontics or "Love, Heaven and Wine" - Chorus and Guitar commissioned by Cantori; Robert Cowles, director
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York
  1. Love
  2. the Honey of Heaven
  3. Wine
* Christmas Prayer - SSAATTBB a cappella
* A Christmas Folksong - SATB and piano
* A Walk Alone - SATB and piano poetry by Carl Tomlinson
* Goodnight, God, - Children’s chorus and piano Commissioned by Children’s Chorale of Flagstaff
* Dulcis Jesu Memoria - SATB a cappella
* Long, long ago - SATB, divisi, a cappella
* Bright Stranger - SATB, divisi with solo quartet, a cappella poetry by Helen Schucmann
* The Mountain that is Mine - for Children’s chorus and piano poetry by Charlie Moody

Instrumental Music

Guitar

* Introduction and Fantasy

Violin and piano

* Berceuse

Soprano saxophone, trumpet and horn

* Three Movements for soprano saxophone, trumpet and horn
  1. Variations on an old Negro Spiritual
  2. Slane
  3. Aunt Nancy's Dance

Concertos

* Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Orchestra
  1. Andante con moto
  2. Andante misterioso
  3. Land of Rest

Woodwind Quintet

* Six Stories by Italian Children
  1. The Singing Goat
  2. The Dog Who Lost His Tail
  3. The Talking Plate
  4. The Love-Sick Elephant
  5. The Generous Tree
  6. The Acrobatic Flea

Trumpet and Piano

* Soliloquy

Flute and Clarinet

* Six Forays

Flute and Piano

* Three Impressions of Northern Arizona
  1. Wupatki
  2. Dineh song of Friendship In memoriam Michael Sullivan
  3. Wind