Voice

Comets  for mezzo-soprano and piano (2021) based on six poems from Carole Oles’s collection Night Watches: Inventions on the Life of Maria Mitchell
Jacquelyn Matava mezzo-soprano, Samual Gaskin piano (9/7/2024)
Video with subtitles (6/3/2022)

Grandmother’s Hymnal  for tenor and piano (2006) based on the poem “On Opening My Grandmother’s Hymnal” by Sydney Lea 
Edwin Andereck tenor, Jessica Paul piano (10/11/2008)

 

The Pale Queen of the Silent Night  for mezzo-soprano, Renaissance flute,  lute, and bass viol (2002) based on the poem “A Sonnet of the Moon” by Charles Best
Virelai: Catherine King mezzo-soprano, William Lyons renaissance flute, Jacob Heringman lute, Susanna Pell bass viol; from the recording Sad Steps

 

Posthumous Orpheus  for mezzo-soprano and  lute (1995) based on the poem “Posthumous Orpheus” by Edward Hirsch
Catherine King mezzo-soprano, Jacob Heringman lute; from the recording Musings 

Prairie Autumn for soprano and  piano (1995) and for soprano, violin, harp, and piano (2014) based on the poem “Prairie Spring” by Willa Cather
1. The American Celebration Duo: Diana Guhin Wooley soprano, Richard Steinbach lute; from the recording Though Love Be a Day
2. Courtenay Budd soprano, Rachel Handman violin, Jeanmarie Chenette harp, Susan Brown piano (9/23/2018)

Oh Millersville!  for soprano and piano (1990) based on fourteen poems from James Normal Hall’s literary hoax Oh Millersville! published under the name Fern Gravel
Melanie Ohm soprano, Gail Novak piano (4/16/1997)

 

Idyll  for soprano, flute, and harp (1981) based on the opening of John Hawkes’s novel The Blood Oranges

Leslie Morgan soprano, Margaret Linnan flute, Jeanmarie Chenette, harp (2/2/1986)

Jazmines for baritone, harp, woodwinds, and strings (1979) based on the poem “Jazmines” by Juan Ramon Jimenez

Kimm Julian baritone, chamber ensemble conducted by Jonathan Chenette (2/2/1986)

The Prayer of St. Francis for soprano and organ (1978)
Leslie Morgan soprano; JoAnne Ritacca organ (2/2/1986)