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Written as one continuous movement, the music begins with a haunting 'Aria. ' A chromatic musical language creates a mysterious mood. The pianist and violinist trade musical motives back and forth as...

The Aria features a lyrical, somewhat melancholy melody in the solo instrument which is continually supported by rich, regularly pulsating chords in the accompaniment. Contrasting sections are faster...

Many attribute this text to to Noah S. ('Soggy') Sweat, a judge and member of the Mississippi legislature, circa 1952. This may or may not be true, but to whomever spoke the words used here, my sincer...

Commissioned in memory of Matthew Shepard by James Geiger for the New York Ciry Gay Men's Chorus, Barry Oliver, Conductor. The work received its premiere performance on June 17th, 1999 at Carnegie Hal...

Composed in 1984 and revised in 1993, Of all the souls that stand create for baritone and piano (Catalog No. 8407) is a setting of a poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-1886). The music features f...

American Death Ballads was composed especially for tenor Brian Thorsett. We have been frequent collaborators since 2011, when he premiered the complete set of my Three Settings of W. B. Yeats for stri...

Ogden Nash is often cited as our country's best-known author of humorous poetry. His style emphasizes unconventional rhyming schemes and invented words, both features of the three poems included in my...

The texts for these songs are adapted from Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), one of America's most fearless and biting satirists. It is safe to say that these songs are probably not for every performer. The...