Dreams

1999 | soprano/piano

Poem by Mary Oliver

Song 2 of Sunflowers

Commissioned by Dr. Adelaide Whitaker.

Errata

Some newer editions may already have these corrections.

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Earlier this Afternoon

2001 | soprano/piano

Poem by Anne Spencer Lindbergh

Song 1 of Round and Round

Commissioned by Dr. Adelaide Whitaker.

Early Snow

Song Cycle: Last Night the Rain Spoke to me; Blue Iris; Early Snow

2003 | soprano/piano

Poems by Mary Oliver, approximately 9 minutes in length.

Commissioned by Dr. Adelaide Whitaker.

Early Snow

2003 | soprano/piano

Poems by Mary Oliver, approximately 9 minutes in length.

Song 3 of Early Snow

Commissioned by Dr. Adelaide Whitaker.

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Errata

Some newer editions may already have these corrections.

• m. 1: mp should be in the piano part
• m. 11: there is a typo below the word “I” — the voice should remain on the F and jump up an octave for the word “thought”
• m. 15: there is a typo - all the Gs in the voice should be G flat for this measure.
• m. 83 on: an alternate version is for the soprano to crescendo on the B flat

Echo

1995 | soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone or bass with piano; baritone with chamber orchestra. Available as PDF download on my site at MusicaNeo (links on homepage)

Poem by Christina Rossetti, approximately 3.5 minutes long. 

• Echo and The Ballad Singer can be sung as a set by baritone.
• Song 15 of Come To Me In Dreams, orchestrated for baritone, saxophone, double bass and piano

I revised the markings for this song in 2015, clarifying dynamics, etc.

A new edition is available for PDF download from MusicaNeo (available through my home page) and hard copies ard available from Glendower Jones. If you have an older edition, please email me and I'll send you the new version gratis.

A new chamber orchestra version, paired with The Ballad Singer, should be complete by the end of December 2021. If interested, please contact me directly.

To see bass Jared Schwartz and collaborative pianist Mary Dibbern perform a new, lower version of "Echo," please click here.

To purchase the mp3 of William Sharp and Lori Laitman performing this song, please click here.

ERRATA in new version:

m. 41: the word "Paradise" was missing the middle syllable in some editions. 

m. 55: rubato has been replaced by a tempo and in m. 57 I have added a poco rit.

Editorial Suggestive (from a Twenty-First Century Editor)

2009 | soprano and piano

Poem by Diane Thiel

Song 3 of Dear Edna

Commissioned by soprano Hope Hudson.

Eloise at Yaddo

2006 | soprano/piano

Poem by David Yezzi, 2.5 minutes long.

To purchase the mp3 of Amanda Gosier and Lori Laitman performing this song, please click here.

Equations of the Light

2005 | high voice and piano or duet versions for either soprano/baritone or soprano/tenor with piano

Poem by Dana Gioia. Duet about 4.5 minutes. Commissioned by The West Chester University Poetry Conference 2005.

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Farewell to Summer

2010 | mezzo-soprano/clarinet/piano

From the Vedem oratorio and the Vedem song cycle

Poem by Zdenek Ornest (aka “Orce”) 

To purchase the mp3 of Angela Niederloh, Laura De Luca and Mina Miller performing this song, please click here.

Fathers

Song cycle: Fragment 1; You, Father; Fragment 2; Last Night I Dreamt; Fragment 3; I Saw My Father Drowning; Don’t Cry

2002, rev.2003, rev. 2010 | baritone/piano trio or mezzo-soprano with piano trio. There are also baritone and mezzo versions with flute instead of violin.

Baritone version premiered by Music of Remembrance, Benaroya Hall, April 2003 and mezzo version premiered by Music of Remembrance in March 2010. Poems by Ranasinghe and Vogel. Cycle is about 15 minutes long.