Thursday, August 15, 2013 at 7:54PM 2012 | soprano/piano
Poem by Joyce Sutphen (current Poet Laureate of Minnesota)
Commissioned by Opera America, to celebrate the opening of the National Opera Center in NYC.
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Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 10:32PM Friday, February 10, 2012 at 8:24PM Song cycle: The Polishers of Brass; Books; The Struggle.
2002, revised in 2004, 2007 and 2008 | soprano/trumpet
Poems by Toi Derricotte, approximately 7 minutes.
Originally 5 settings: The Minks; The Struggle; Books; The Polishers of Brass; The Weakness
Revised again in 2007 into 2 separate cycles. Published in June 2008, as Captivity, with 3 songs as shown above. The other 2 songs will be reworked with piano and published at a later date.
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 9:37PM 2011, revised in 2013| SSA and piano
Poem by Dick Davis, approximately 4 1/2 minutes long.
Commissioned by The Randolph College Chorale, under the direction of Randall Speer. Premiered on April 28, 2011, in the Wimberly Recital Hall, Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia.
Monday, January 22, 2018 at 2:43PM Friday, February 10, 2012 at 8:36PM
Friday, February 24, 2012 at 10:37PM 2008, rev. 2016, final aria revisions 2018) | mezzo-soprano/piano
From The Scarlet Letter
Libretto by David Mason
Act One, Scene Four of The Scarlet Letter finds Arthur Dimmesdale sharing rooms with Roger Chillingworth, who has come to suspect Dimmesdale of adultery. Chillingworth leaves to attend to the dying governor, and when Dimmesdale awakes from a drug- induced sleep he wanders alone out into the streets, tortured by his own guilt. There he meets Mistress Hibbons, who sees the hypocrisy in the young minister, sees that he has hidden behind his pious image and even distanced himself from his own identity. In this song she taunts the minister—a sort of grotesque mirror of his guilt. — David Mason
This aria is for sale with the following options:
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Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 8:55PM 2003 | baritone/piano
Poem by Paul Muldoon.
Song 1 of The Throwback
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Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 10:33PM 2001, rev. 2017 | soprano or mezzo-soprano/alto saxophone. Also available with clarinet accompaniment.
Poem by Joyce Sutphen
Song 6 of Living in the Body
Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 3:18PM 2003 | high voice and piano; [in progress] high voice with chamber orchestra
Poem by Dana Gioia.
Song 3 of cycle Becoming a Redwood.
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