Daniel Brewbaker

To Hold Beauty expresses an understanding that all desires of the heart are reflections of the soul's one essential desire: to embrace beauty. With piano and optional timpani.

Excerpted from a larger work (Out of the mist, above the real), this work represents the beautiful imagery of nature with a Celtic flavor.

This lovely work sets Cummings' portrait of a joyful songbird to elegant, expressive music.

Set in a gentle 3/4 meter, this lullaby on a poem by Yeats expresses the love shared between a grown child and her mother. Alternating lines between a solo soprano and treble voices enrich the vocal c...

This spacious and expressive work, the third movement of Brewbaker's cantata 'Out of the Mist, Above the Real,' invokes the Divine Feminine with a text drawnfrom an ancient Gnostic text.

This wistful musical conversation draws from e. e. cummings' poem an expressive meditation on the meaning of music. From the cycle 'birdsong. '

Rooted in traditional Irish melody and the poetry of W.B. Yeats, this dialogue between solo soprano and treble voices is illuminated with desire, love, and light.