Vocal Works

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Three Torch Songs (I’m Here Again, Never Trust Love, Snow in July) (2012, 2024)

Muriel’s Songs (2023) for mezzo-soprano and eleven instruments (35:00)

Fabliau of Florida (2022) (text by Wallace Stevens) for soprano, or mezzo-soprano, or tenor and piano (3:00)

Fabliau of Florida  (2022) for SATB chorus (2:30)

Encounter (2022) (text by Barbara Cassidy)for soprano and piano (1:30)

The Trees (2022) (text by Barbara Cassidy)for soprano and piano (3:15)

Ghosts of Our Former Selves (2019-20) ten texts by E Chasalow  - version for fixed media and for live performance (1 hour)

Five Ghost Songs (2019-21) songs about identity on texts by E Chasalow for mezzo-soprano, clarinet, piano (15:00)

Wallace Stevens Songs (2018 rev. 2021) three songs for singing/speaking cellist (15:00)

Where it Finds Nothing But the Wind (2013) ten texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls. for soprano, flute, guitar, percussion, electronics (30:00)

Dream Songs (2001) fives songs on texts by John Berryman, based upon the orchestra piece of the same title, arranged for tenor and piano (15:00)

Five Simic Songs (1998) sop and string quartet. five songs on poems of Charles Simic. For the 50th anniversary of Brandeis University (10:00)

Pass it On (1995) soprano and piano. on a poem by Rachel Hadas (3:30)

The Shampoo (1988) soprano and piano. on a poem by Elizabeth Bishop (3:00)

The Furies (1984) soprano and tape. on poems by Anne Sexton (13:15)

Triptych (1984) soprano and piano. three songs on poems by Elizabeth Bishop and Rachel Hadas (10:00)