ORCHESTRAL

Dreaming the RagWaltz Blues, piano concerto.  14 min.  Commissioned by the Leighton-Oare Foundation, South Bend, IN.  Premiered by the South Bend Symphony Orchestra, Tsung Yeh, conductor; Jeffrey Biegel, piano; Morris Performing Arts Center, 4/26/03; broadcast on WAUS-FM, Berrien Springs, MI, 5/11/03.

Arctic Chill, string orchestra.  15 min.  Commissioned and premiered by the Indiana University South Bend Philharmonic, Aaron Berofsky, conductor, IUSB Auditorium, IN, 12/14/00.

Fanfare for the Millennium, full orchestra.  9 min.  Commissioned and premiered by the South Bend Symphony Orchestra, Tsung Yeh, conductor, at the Morris Performing Arts Center, South Bend, IN, 4/8/00; broadcast on WAUS-FM, Berrien Springs, MI, 4/23/00.

Chrysalis, full orchestra.  10’30”.  Premiered by the Concert Orchestra, Paul McGovern, conductor, Musical Arts Center, Indiana University School of Music, Bloomington, IN, 2/1/98.

Mutability, for tenor and chamber orchestra with optional electronic effects.  14 min.  Performed by the Mississippi Valley Chamber Orchestra, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 6/5/88; premiered by Dan Nelson, tenor, on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Fine Arts Series, WI, 3/31/87.

Mutability, full orchestra.  13 min.  Reading by the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Minneapolis, MN, 10/18/88, funded by The Ensemble Reading Program, Minnesota Composers Forum, St. Paul, MN.

Variations on Four Themes of Sappho, song cycle for soprano and chamber orchestra.  12 min.  Poems by Geoffry Gardner.  Mississippi Valley Chamber Orchestra, So. St. Paul, MN, 11/12/84; soprano, horn, ‘cello, piano, First Unitarian Society, Minneapolis, MN, 5/80; premiered on Minnesota Composers Forum concert, Walker Art Center, MN, 1/28/79.