Coro e Canto

This Nahuatl text is a lyrical, rhapsodic setting of a ravishing text.

This Winnebago text is a quiet meditation, featuring a soprano soloist (imitating a boy soprano).

This Tewa text is quite vigorous.

This movement concludes the larger work Earth Chants in quiet benediction.

The woman depicted in She Walks in Beauty elicits expressions of tender and gentle endearment from the poet. To accompany words like 'sweet,' 'pure,' 'soft,' 'eloquent,' the music flows gently, uninte...

In When We Two Parted, the bitterness felt by the poet when he thinks of his lost love is expressed musical in several ways.The path of love is not always sunlit. In Shades of Love, the music expresse...

Hamisha Asar are the Ladino words (the Spanish Hebrew language spoken by the Sephardic Jews) for “Tu Be'Shevat,” the Jewish holiday in the spring that celebrates the time when sap begins f...

Nothing comes easily in life, but, as poet Sarah Teasdale assures us, life holds such treasures that we must give our all and “never count the cost.”

Run Children Run is based on a field yell, from the days when the slaves sang as they worked, both to keep the work rolling, and to send each other messages of support and solidarity.

With a flowing piano accompaniment, the vocal texture is mainly homophonic, interspersed with brief contrapuntal sections. This particular poem speaks of remembering a relationship, and the need for r...

Roses I Send to You is a tender song of love and devotion expressed in turn by a woman, her lover, and together as a couple.

The Calliope, or steam organ, common in the old west. This particular calliope, 'Connie,' is full of steam and full of noise. Lies he tells without a blink on a chance to have a frink - to the refrain...

The Scout is an original spirited folk-like tune about a miner and the rough, difficult life he leads.

Pals is about two scouts who 'tramped the hills together hunting for silver, gold and copper.' The text alludes to the many hardships of miners in the wild west.

While this is scored for two cellos, SAB chorus and piano, it should be noted that this piece can be performed with any combination of 2 cellos, 1 cello or no cello with piano. The cello parts were de...