Coro bambini e pianoforte

Dog Days reflect the composer's discomfort with the high humidity and high tempertures often encountered in July and August; air so heavy and heat so oppressive that one can barely move. The compositi...

The text comes from the Pima people, who were desert dwellers. The wind either playfully tosses the sands and grasses in small sweeps and swirls, or upon gaining more energy, whirls into a circle and...

Written in the Dorian mode, and using only the white notes of the piano keyboard, each of this poem's two verses is sung by the choir in unison and then repested in two-part harmony. The piano part is...

This arrangement is rhythmically animated and the accompanying alto line is accessible to beginning singers. The hammer dulcimer part is easily adapted to the piano, but the light shimmering sound of...

In these five succint poems, Diane Vreuls expresses a full range of emotions. The process of learning this music must begin by savoring Vreuls' texts.

The Pima Indian text was collected in the nineteenth century. Ideas expressed in the text are depicted in musical metaphors: the vocal parts twist and run, build and fade.

The poignant story told in this ballad is sensitively developed in the texture and range of both the vocal lines and piano accompaniment. The shift from 2/4 to 6/8 and the eventual superimposition of...

Equally a memorial and a sincere tribute to the cycles of life, this reverent work features shapely and contemplative melodies unfolding over a gently undulating piano accompaniment. Newly arranged fo...

The poem is a “glimmering” description of a spider web as viewed through the wonder-filled eyes of a child. To illustrate this, the Lydian mode was chosen for its impressionistic quality a...

In this passage, God envisions a reconciliation, in which God the groom provides the bride-piece of “righteousness and justice” in reaffirming the “marraige,” so that Israel mi...

Firefly Song attempts to capture the essence of the winking and ever-transforming miniature starscape of the Ojibway text. Points of instrumental and vocal color (in the form of trills, triadic sonori...

An energetic, inventive and rhythmically vibrant setting of the poem by William Blake, this work can be effectively paired with Bernofsky's harmonically lush and innocent setting of Blake's The Lamb (...

Kinderchor (SMez) mit Klavier