Partitions pour chœurs

As part of my duties as composer-in-residence at Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church, Houston, Texas, I composed this brief work-in effect, a choral fanfare-for the beginning of the 2015 Christmas Eve Ma...

If Ye Love Me was composed as a reflective commentary on the well-known motet by Thomas Tallis (1505 1585). Homophony predominates in the first section but with clusters rather than the traditional ha...

This gentle life lesson and setting begins with the chorus acting as accompaniment to the soloist. Then the sopranos pick up the mantle of the soloist and the chorus sings the words together. The fina...

This setting pokes fun at all of the ways in which phrases about money are 'coined. ' The music is appropriately uncomplicated, and nearly always homophonic.

As the composer suggests in his program notes, the poem to which this music is set may 'appear on surface as being rather flippant but, underneath, is deadly serious. ' The same may be said of the mos...

This piece was written at the request of the composer's daughter who needed a Marian song for an M. M. recital focused on women in choral music. The music is based on the chant Salve Regina from the '...

A setting of the most famous passage from the Book of Ruth (Ruth 1:16-17) opens with a gentle polyphonic section for the chorus. The soprano joins the choir for the twice-repeated middle section of th...

This unusual setting uses a fresh text excerpted from the book, Back to the Ethic: Reclaiming Western Values by Diane Weber Bederman (Mantua Books, 2015). The music is very much a text painting, shift...

The conductor of Choral Arts Northwest, Robert Bode, asked the composer to write a work based on a text about The Blessed Virgin Mary. The final poem in Petrarch's most famous work, Il Canzoniere, wa...

In his brief poem Eternitie, Robert Herrick (1591 1674) imagines the immense awe that accompanies leaving this world and entering the next. A hint of longing for what was in the opening words, 'O Year...

A gentle, lyrical anthem suitable for a baptismal service, either as an immediate response (which would be quite moving) or elsewhere in the service. The composer has used his own new text, which is c...

A soaring, joyful, unaccompanied motet in F major. (Keyboard reduction provided.) Notated on five staves with the soprano 1 and 2 on their own staves. However, all parts below that also divide very oc...

Commissioned by a choral society in memory of their beloved accompanist, this is an SATB divisi unaccompanied setting of a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay. The text remembers a departed friend through...

A five-movement work featuring texts by Johannes Kepler, John Donne, and the Psalms. Dedicated to Swiss astrophysicist Arnold Benz, a relative of the composer, this work is based on melodic ideas writ...

A choral rendition of Proverbs 22:9.

Madrigals for the Seasons was composed especially for Cappella SF, Ragnar Bohlin, conductor. A Summer's Day is a paean to the glories of summer Images of nature are illuminated, climaxing in the splen...

Madrigals for the Seasons was composed especially for Cappella SF, Ragnar Bohlin, conductor. John Clare's poem Autumn conjures up vivid images of this season: the fading of summer flowers, the colors...

A traditional motet based on Matthew 5:16. The text is in Latin with a brief English statement of the text featured in the soprano solo.

Set on the poem 'Sunset Symphony' by Texas-based author Nathan Brown. Without words, the beginning of Brown's poem consists of a series of ellipses set in an almost pointillistic manner, with pulsatin...

A mournful text by English poet Hartley Coleridge. Dark, somber and rich choral writing.

A lyrical Christmas lullaby.

A moving poem by Tennyson about how the world is constantly changing. The piece begins with a drone in the bass and tenor and gradually builds to include all parts.

A gentle lullaby based on an old Welsh Folk Song with the tune AR HYD Y NOS.