Partiture per coro

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...

Chanflín is a typical Dominican merengue in its melody and form. Chanflín is a young woman, very good looking. The merengue section refers to a 'neighborhood gossip.' The jaleo section refers to Chanf...

Each movement of this mass incorporates folk melodies from a different country. The moods and the tempi of the originals have been altered; melodies have been unraveled, spliced together and persuaded...

It's a dance piece! Let the rhythm and accents hold sway as the piano rolics and the singers tease, tempt, cajole and invite the Bonnie Lassie!

The serene mood of the poem is expressed musically by the sustained lyrical lines of the voices above the rocking motion of the piano.

This setting's reassuring words, bidding a peaceful night of rest, are especially welcome in an increasingly hectic modern age.

Mangulina is a dance derived from Zapateado Español (a Spanish heel-tapping dance). Guayacanal, originally written in the 1950's by Dominican songwriters Luis Kalaff and Bienvenido Brens, embodies wha...

In this concert setting, the voices are used as a means to create a meditative dwelling for prayer. The low voices drone (using nasal resonance) to symbolize a sense of eternity suspended. The isolate...

Contains seven Irish and nine Newfoundland folk songs.

This beautiful Scottish melody and words speak of love of place and longing for return to that much-loved place.

The antiquity of the text is suggested by introducing the primary melodic material in plainsong fashion by the keyboard. Within a few measures it takes on more modern dress in anticipation of the entr...

This poem, though describing the ebb and flow of a body of water, can also be interpreted as a metaphor for teamwork when difficulties occur in the flow of life.

The text from an anonymous aboriginal source captures youth's delight in the rush of spring, and its joyous and miraculous arrival to the northern landscape.