Oread (1984) 35'
for SATB chorus, classical guitar and chamber orchestra with soprano and
baritone soloists
Text: William Carlos Williams, Walt Whitman, Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg,
Hilda Doolittle, Hart Crane
Premiered 22 October 1984 Buckley Recital Hall Amherst College; Amherst , Massachusetts
Students from Amherst College, Smith College and the University of Massachusetts;
conducted by Tania Gabrielle French
2(I=picc).1.1.1—2.1.1.0—timp.perc(3):mar/vib/snare drum/cyms/susp.cym/wdbl/tgl
stick on gong— classical guitar—strings
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In Paradisum (2002) 7’ for SSATB chorus and string orchestra (or string
ensemble)
Text: English translation of "In Paradisum" (as in Fauré Requiem)
Commissioned by San Francisco Solano Churchin memory of those who lost their
lives on September 11, 2002
In Paradisum received top honors at the Oregon Bach Fesival¹s "Waging
Peace through Singing"
My Heart Beats in Waves on the Shore of the World (2001) 9 for
SSAATTBB chorus a capella
Text: Five poems by Rumi and Rabindranath Tagore
In the End is the Beginning (1988) 6’ for SATB chorus, tenor solo,
soprano saxophone and organ
Text: Luke 21 : 25-36
Commissioned by the Union Theological Seminary, New York
Premiered 29 November 1988 Union Theological Seminary, NY, NY
Union Theological Seminary Choir; Anders Paulsson, soprano saxophone; Harry
Huff, organ
Three Invocations (1987) 9’ for SATB chorus a capella
Text: Three poems by William Blake
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (1987) 12’ for SSATB chorus
and organ
Premiered 10 December 1988 Interlochen Arts Academy, Michigan
Choir of Interlochen Arts Academy
Vier Jahreszeiten (1986) 15’ for SSA women’s chorus or
children’s chorus
Text: Five Settings on poems by Joseph von Eichendorff, Eduard Mörike, Konrad
Weiss and Emmanuel Geibel (in German)
Commissioned by the Schönwasser Kinderchor
Premiered 12 July 1986 Krefeld, Germany
Schönwasser Kinderchor, Brigitte French, conductor
Missa Brevis (1985) 20’ for SATB chorus, soprano solo
and organ
Commissioned by Edwards Church Choir
Premiered 21 May 1985 Edwards Church Choir, Northampton, MA
Richard Riley, conductor
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