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Chamber Orchestra and Chorus

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 
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Choral

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