Theodore Presser Company

A beautiful extract from Garrop's major oratorio Terra Nostra, set to the poem by Walt Whitman. Terra Nostra considers, through texts and poems, the world as it was, humanity's rise and impact on the...

The poetry of Marie Howe has a special place in Ricky Ian Gordon's heart and mind, both haunting and soothing. Without Music is a five-movement work in which Howe's words and Gordon's music together g...

Powerfully poignant and equally tender, My Dearest Ruth is Garrop's musical setting of the final love letter from Martin Ginsburg to his wife, the opera-loving Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsbur...

Stacy Garrop's DIRGE WITHOUT WORDS is a dramatic setting of Edna St. Vincent Millay's elegiac poem of the same name. The music gives voice to the mournful, yet defiant, character of the poetry, which...

What's in a name? While the title is French for 'Eight Flower Songs,' the texts are all in English. The poems' flowers metaphorically evoke fragrance, love and loss, life and death, rebirth and regrow...

It's New Year's Eve in Chicago, 1919. Just before the stroke of midnight, an anonymous woman leaps from the rooftop of a downtown hotel. The next morning, a young reporter named Abigail lands her firs...

This aria from Stacy Garrop's gripping noir-esque opera, The Transformation of Jane Doe, set in 1920s Chicago is lyrical, lilting, and sweet, a welcome addition to the aria repertoire for Mezzo-Sopran...

Garrop’s music is as effervescent as its subject in this setting of two poems by 17th-century English poet Robert Herrick. As satisfying to sing as it is to hear, performers will enjoy showcasing the...

MEDITATION FOR THE INNER STORM is a profound yet versatile vocalise against a drone. Performable with any droning sound source, and available in transpositions for high, medium, and low voices, Garrop...

MEDITATION FOR THE INNER STORM is a profound yet versatile vocalise against a drone. Performable with any droning sound source, and available in transpositions for high, medium, and low voices, Garrop...

MEDITATION FOR THE INNER STORM is a profound yet versatile vocalise against a drone. Performable with any droning sound source, and available in transpositions for high, medium, and low voices, Garrop...

Garrop’s music is as effervescent as its subject in this setting of two poems by 17th-century English poet Robert Herrick. As satisfying to sing as it is to hear, performers will enjoy showcasing the...

“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you….You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.” So begins Capta...

First known to the music world as a guitar recitalist, David Leisner turned to composing his own guitar repertoire, and soon expanded his work to create a rich catalog in the grand tradition of art so...

First known to the music world as a guitar recitalist, David Leisner turned to composing his own guitar repertoire, and soon expanded his work to create a rich catalog in the grand tradition of art so...

Arranged by Pietro Spada. For Voice, Piano. Duration 4:30.

Theodore Presser Company releases Bel Canto Songs; new settings of six poems by William Blake; written by esteemed opera composer (The Seagull; Frau Margot) and film orchestrator (I) Thomas Pasatieri....

Baritone (doubling Bassoon and Piano), Mezzo-soprano (doubling Piano), (Optional) Baritone (doubling Flute), Piano The week between Christmas and New Year must be an exceptionally slow time in New Yor...