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What's Cookin'? takes its sweet time tantalizing the listener with all the menu items of a truly Southern feast. Music, set to a slow tempo in swing eighths, makes the recitation tempting, if not down...

Bugs is a soundscape of insects and their songs. Precise vocal effects make this challenging but also whimsical, and the result is pure fun.

Love, O Love recalls an old-fashioned love letter in which the writer compares the beloved to the moon and the sun and pledges eternal love. The music begins with lush chords sung together, moves to a...

A perfectly apt finale to this choral suite, Kentucky Derby begins with a nod to 'My Old Kentucky Home, ' and then it's off to the races, literally. The text of the suite is declaimed rapidly in patte...

The Journey of Hope was written as a commission for the Jacksonville Children's Chorus, Darren Dailey, director. It is scored for SSAB voices, with the baritone part written so that it is appropriate...

A deeply moving lament that perfectly captures the feelings of the African-American slaves. Their existence was so dire that 'going home' in death was, for many, a welcome relief. This arrangement has...

A new musical setting of an exquisite text by Thomas Campion (1567 1620). While not overtly religious, Campion's text inspires us in its spirituality, hope, and faith to believe in a power greater tha...

This twentieth-century triptych by renowned Canadian composer, Leonard Enns, includes the following poems by William Blake from his well-known set of poetry titled Songs of Innocence: 1. Introduction...

Dudaryku (The Piper) was introduced to me by my friend Natalka Pavlovsky as 'the Ukrainian version of Der Leiermann' (The Organ Grinder). Like Schubert's famous Lied, this Ukrainian folksong hauntingl...

I encountered The Windhover in graduate school, and it made such a strong impression, but was so daunting a work, that I waited nearly three decades to set it. Hopkins combines a poetic vocabulary dra...