CHAMBER (VOCAL)

Comments, song cycle for soprano and piano.  8 min.  Poetry by Dorothy Parker.  Performed by Laurel Thomas, soprano and Jeffrey Jacob, piano, Composition Recital, Indiana University South Bend Recital Hall, IN, 3/29/07; Joan Metelli, soprano and Joe Kahre, piano, FESTIVAL 30:  NEW MUSIC, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 3/30/00; Rebecca Arington, soprano and Kyomi Sugimura, piano, Michiana Composers Concert, IUSB Auditorium, IN, 3/15/00; Joan Metelli, soprano and Miko Kominami, piano, IUSB Recital Hall, IN, 11/23/99; Joan Metelli, soprano and Mark Riggleman, piano, IUSB Auditorium, IN, 9/18/99; Susan Swaney, soprano and Raymond T. Feldman, piano, Bloomington Community Chamber Music Recital, IN, 2/15/98 and at the IU Bloomington Recital Hall, IN, 11/13/94; premiered by Vivica Genaux, soprano and Grant Wenaus, piano, IU Bloomington Recital Hall, IN, 4/16/92.

Hearing the Grass Grow, My Water Buffalo, song for soprano, cello, and piano.  10 min.  Commissioned by the Indiana Music Teachers Association for their 2003 state conference.  Laurel Thomas, soprano; Wendell Miller, cello; Jeffrey Jacob, piano; Sauder Hall, Goshen College, IN, 11/22/03.

Songs of Love and Death, song cycle for soprano, Bb clarinet, violin, and cello.  20 min.  Commissioned by the Gotham Ensemble, New York, NY.  Presented on the Sundays in the Park With Music concert series, American Composers Forum-Chicago Chapter & Chicago Park District, IL, 10/14/01; performed by Joan Metelli, soprano; Caroline Hartig, Bb clarinet; David Blakley, violin; Roger Malitz, cello; FESTIVAL 30:  NEW MUSIC, Ball State University, IN, 3/30/00; premiered by Dawn Waggener, soprano, Indiana University Bloomington Recital Hall, IN, 11/13/94.

When the Shepherd Moon Shall Flee, song for soprano and piano.  4 min.  Text arranged by composer from poems by East African poets Anna Yardeni and Willy David Kamera.  Performed by Lisa Feurzeig, soprano and Marjorie M. Rusche, piano, Michiana Composers Concert, Indiana University South Bend, IN, 3/19/98; Westminster Presbyterian, Minneapolis, MN, 2/5/84; Walkabout Dance Studio Performance Series, San Francisco, CA, 1/23/81; premiered at the Kenya Music Festival, Nairobi, Kenya, 5/76.

Brenda, monodrama/song cycle for soprano, violin, and piano.  37 min.  Text arranged by composer based on prose by Brenda Ueland.  Commissioned by the Schubert Club, St. Paul, MN.  Excerpts premiered at St. Benedict’s College, Collegeville, MN, 9/30/86.  Entire composition broadcast on KFAI, Minneapolis, MN, 3/8/87; WCBN, Ann Arbor, MI, 10/25/87; and WCVT, Baltimore, MD, 2/2/89.  Excerpts performed on the American Women Composers-Midwest 1987-88 concert series, Chicago, IL, 5/13/88.

Spring Morning, baritone and woodwind quintet.  6 min.  Poem by D.H. Lawrence.  Broadcast on KSJN, Minnesota Public Radio, St. Paul, MN, 11/6/86 & 11/82; premiered on a Minnesota Composers Forum concert, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 10/28/82.

Whales Weep Not!, song for mezzo and piano.  15 min.  Poem by D.H. Lawrence.  Commissioned by the Schubert Club, St. Paul, MN; premiered on the Music in the Park concert series, St. Anthony Park, MN, 1/20/85; broadcast on KPFA, Pacifica Radio, Berkeley, CA, 2/81.

Animals, song cycle for mezzo and piano.  18 min.  Poetry by Blake, Dickinson, Yeats, and Monro.  Broadcast on KPFA, Pacifica Radio, Berkeley, CA, 2/81; KSJN, Minnesota Public Radio, St. Paul, MN, 6/80; premiered on a MCF concert, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1/20/80.