Chœur de femmes avec orgue

Based on parts of Genesis, chapter 1, this piece explores the creation of light, day and night, the sun and the moon.

Originally titled Caribbean Sun, the poem captured the exuberance of the poet's childhood in the tropics. The piano sets the scene with an energetic rhythmic figure that is picked up by the voices.

In three sections, this piece employs overlapping legato entries marked by mild dissonance. This piece is a model of expressive writing and sung sensitively, will be moving both to audiences and perfo...

This charming setting of a familiar text is characterized by refrains which use six-part divisi writing; overlapping and imitation in close sequence may prove a technical challenge to singers in terms...

Hold the Wind, a simple yet stirring melody in the mixolydian mode, was sung by a blacksmith. The simple harmonization highlights the beauty of the melody.

Frauenchor (SSA) und Klavier - englisch

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Winter Wind was inspired by a sojourn in a snowy wilderness. What a privilege it is to wait quietly in a blanketed forest and hear it sing!

Frauenchor (SS), Klavier und Glockenspiel

The rhythms of Jack Prelutsky's witty text inpired this playful, jazzy setting.

The collaged texts of Spinning Flax are “spun” together from a broad historical range of source material - court records, church and town records, neurological case histories, Medieval and...