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Tuesday
Feb282012

Dark Spring

Song cycle: The Flower On The Mountainside; The Spirit; Scissors, Don’t Cut Away; You Know This

2011 | tenor/piano

Four songs, setting Motets I, XVI, XI and XVIII by Eugenio Montale, in translation by Dana Gioia.

Composed for the British tenor Chris Elliott and the Fondazione Spinola in Genoa, Italy, in honor of Dana Gioia's 60th birthday.

Saturday
Feb052011

Daughters

Song cycleMascot and SymbolStella RememberedA Letter to My Daughter

1998 | mezzo-soprano and piano trio

Poems by Anne Ranasinghe and Karen Gershon, about 18 minutes long.

Commissioned by Kirsten Taylor.

To purchase the Becoming A Redwood CD, which contains this complete song cycle, recorded by Patricia Green, Juliette Kang, Thomas Kraines and Kirsten Taylor, please click here

 

NOTE: MAY 2021

I am in the process of updating the markings for this score. Please email me if you'd like the updated copy.

Saturday
Feb052011

Days and Nights

Thursday
Mar012012

Days Turn

2002 | baritone or mezzo-soprano/cello

Poem by C.G.R. Shepard

Song 4 of Long Pond Revisited

Commissioned by Dr. Adelaide Whitaker.

Click here to purchase an mp3 from Amazon.

Sunday
Mar062011

Dear Edna

Song cycle: On An Album of Millay’s Recordings; What Lips My Lips Have Kissed; Editorial Suggestive (from a Twenty-First Century Editor); After Reading the Biography, Savage Beauty

2009 | soprano and piano

Poems by Jennifer Reeser, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Diane Thiel and A.E. Stallings.

Commissioned by soprano Hope Hudson, about 8 minutes long.

Thursday
Feb182016

Dear Future Roommate

2015, rev. 2017 | baritone/piano or tenor/piano

Poem by Mike Gioia

Commissioned by Lyric Fest of Philadelphia.

Premiered April 2 and 3 of 2016, with baritone Keith Phares and pianist Laura Ward.

To hear the premiere, please click here.

The premiere recording with tenor Vale Rideout and pianist/composer Lori Laitman can be heard here.

The video made by Lyric Fest can be viewed here

 

Please email me if you need a lower baritone cadenza.

 

 

Friday
Mar022012

Dear March

2006 | versions for all voice types with piano 

Poem by Emily Dickinson 

Song 2 of The Perfected Life

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

Thursday
Mar012012

Don’t Bother Me

2001 | mezzo-soprano/piano 

Poem by Mary Oliver 

Song 1 of One Or Two Things 

Commissioned by Dr. Adelaide Whitaker. 

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

Thursday
Mar012012

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.

Poem by Anne Ranasinghe

Song 7 of Fathers

Baritone version premiered by Music of Remembrance, Benaroya Hall, April 2003 and mezzo version premiered by Music of Remembrance in March 2010.

Saturday
Feb052011

Dreaming

 1991 | soprano; soprano and baritone; soprano and mezzo; SATB versions

Humorous encore song, about 2 minutes long.  Words and music by Lori Laitman.

Errata

Some newer editions may already have these corrections.
  • m. 8, take some time.
  • m. 15, there should be a crescendo on the shouted letters. I prefer for the accompanist to shout these letters.
  • m. 49, it's back to the jazz eights.
  • m. 54, all of the soprano notes in the duo version can be Gs. Or the last two notes can be Gs. Or it can be sung as published.
  • There are many versions of this piece, with minor changes being made quite frequently to the piano part. The current edition is the one I prefer. 

To purchase the mp3 of Jennifer Check, Randall Scarlata and Warren Jones performing this song, please click here.

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