Bring on the Rain

2001, rev. 2017 | soprano or mezzo-soprano/alto saxophone — also available with clarinet accompaniment

Poem by Joyce Sutphen

Song 5 of Living in the Body

To watch mezzo-soprano Karyn Friedman and saxophonist Gary Louie performing this song, please click here.

Burning the Woods of my Childhood

2001, rev. 2017 | soprano or mezzo-soprano/alto saxophone. Also available with clarinet accompaniment.

Poem by Joyce Sutphen

Song 1 of Living in the Body

To watch mezzo-soprano Karyn Friedman and saxophonist Gary Louie performing this song, please click here.

Crossroads

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

To watch mezzo-soprano Karyn Friedman and saxophonist Gary Louie performing this song, please click here

Living in the Body

2001, rev. 2017 | soprano or mezzo-soprano/alto saxophone - also available with clarinet accompaniment.

Poem by Joyce Sutphen

Song 2 of Living in the Body

Living in the Body

Song cycle: Burning the Woods of my Childhood; Living in the Body; Not for Burning; Lost at Table; Bring on the Rain; Crossroads

2001, rev. 2017 | soprano or mezzo-soprano/alto saxophone

Poems by Joyce Sutphen, approximately 18 minutes long.

Commissioned through a Special Projects Grant from the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Georgia Southern University for soprano Sandra McClain and saxophonist Carolyn Bryan

Song 3 has a conversion for mezzo-soprano (see catalog listing); the others are fine for mezzo without changes.

Click here to see soprano Maureen McKay and saxophonist Gary Louie's October 10 2018 performance.

Lost at Table

2001, rev. 2017 | soprano or mezzo-soprano/alto saxophone. Also available with clarinet accompaniment.

Poem by Joyce Sutphen

Song 4 of Living in the Body

Not for Burning

2001, rev. 2017 | soprano or mezzo-soprano/alto saxophone. Also available with clarinet accompaniment.

Poem by Joyce Sutphen

Song 3 of Living in the Body

Conversion for mezzo-soprano

• m. 22 instead of high B flat, sing a D flat a 6th down
• m. 23, first note - instead of a G flat, sing a B flat a 3rd down
• m. 30 and 31, option sing down a octave
• m. 32 sing a D instead of a G, leave the E in m. 33
• m. 40 instead of G flat, sing a B flat
• m. 59 instead of F sharp D B, sing D B B
• end of m. 66 last note - instead of G flat, sing the same A flat pitch
• m. 68, last note, sing a B flat instead of the G flat
• m. 69 instead of a half note F, sing two quarter melisma, C going down to an F
• m. 70 last note, stay on the A flat instead of singing an F
• m. 72 get rid of the high B. Instead, on beat 2, sing an E going up to an F sharp in eighths and then stay on the F sharp until the G sharp as written at the end of the measure.

The Imaginary Photo Album

2020|soprano/piano

Poem by Joyce Sutphen

Song 4 of cycle The Imaginary Photo Album

What You Wanted

2011 | soprano/piano

Poem by Joyce Sutphen.

Commissioned by soprano Cynthia Vaughn.