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A short song cycle using a solo (unaccompanied) voice to vocalize the fanciful and magical poems of E. E. Cummings with glissandi, whistling, ghostly whispered notes and long melismas drawing out the...

Poet Emily Dickinson loved writing about nature and wrote many poems about flowers, three of which are celebrated in this song cycle. Flowers of various descriptions and personalities are included in...

These songs were commissioned by the Mohawk Trail Concerts in Charlemont, Massachusetts in honor of Ruth Lloyd Black, their co-founder. The first performance was on August 30, 2015, soon after her dea...

Although the texts are adapted from poems by the Indiana poet James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916), the poet's intent, imagery, cadence and the soulful message remain intact. The composer's wish is that t...

This text has been adapted from Mark Twain's The War Prayer, which he wrote in 1904-5 to protest America's involvement in the Spanish-American War. His family convinced him to keep if from publication...

On the surface, this 1941 poem is about roosters. More specifically, roosters in Key West, where the poet spent a decade. But the sub-texts could not be any more appropriate in terms of current events...

A set of three interconnected songs for male voice and band. Completed in 1997, this fifteen minute piece features a modal, lyrical musical language throughout, is written at a university or professio...

This brief and brilliant fanfare was composed in 2015 for 80th anniversary of the Vermont Symphony. The Vermont News praised the work by saying, 'This little splash managed to be a harmonically and rh...

This brief and brilliant fanfare was composed in 2015 for 80th anniversary of the Vermont Symphony. The Vermont News praised the work by saying, 'This little splash managed to be a harmonically and rh...