satb | accessible
Breathe in Hope | SATB chorus & piano | 6.5'
"To keep our lungs from collapsing, we must breathe in hope."
Closer to Home | SATB chorus a cappella | 5'
"You're closer to home than you've ever been before,
and you've never wanted to stay here more."
SATB, SSAA, or TTBB chorus a cappella | 4'
"Stringing memories, quilting them tightly
in winter, with the days of grey and iron nights."
Faster | SATB chorus a cappella | 3.5'
"Now I choose to either move on,
to go as fast as I can, or be content staying here."
SATB, SSAA, or TTBB chorus a cappella | 3'
"I will honour Christmas in my heart,
and try to keep it all the year."
Half the World | SATB chorus & piano | 4'
"Such a truth is woman’s right to equal liberty with man."
Like Something Newly Freed | SATB a cappella | 5'
"You raise black wings like leaves, like the lightness of a song."
Love is a Sickness | SATB chorus a cappella | 3'
"Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing."
Returning | SATB chorus with audience refrain | 5.5'
"The geese you saw leaving, their feet rising
into dark bodies, they will return."
Ring Out, Ye Bells! | SATB, SA, or TB chorus & piano | 4'
"The rocks and stones, in holy tones, are singing
sweeter than the thrushes."
Threads of Joy | SATB chorus a cappella | 4'
"A kind of silence, a light beneath pain."
Where Go the Boats? | SATB chorus a cappella | 4'
"Boats of mine a-boating—Where will all come home?"
You Find Yourself Here | SATB chorus a cappella | 4'
"You see yourself reflected; you learn to love what you see."
ssa(a) | accessible
Ave Generosa | SSA chorus & harp (or piano) | 5'
"O lovely and tender one, with all the celestial symphony
resounding through you..."
Breathe in Hope | SSAA chorus & piano | 6.5'
"What would we do if we didn't have the privilege
of being distracted?"
Closer to Home | SSAA chorus a cappella | 5'"
"And maybe you'll return someday, somehow,
but it's time to go back to the life you're living now"
Completing the Circle | SSAA chorus a cappella | 4'
"Stringing memories, quilting them tightly
in winter, with the days of grey and iron nights."
Faster | SSAA chorus a cappella | 3.5'"
"If I want to go faster, if I want to leave,
the answers are already here; now I can see."
Half the World | SA chorus & piano | 4'
"Such a truth is woman’s right to equal liberty with man."
Like Something Newly Freed | SSAA a cappella | 5'
"You raise black wings like leaves, like the lightness of a song."
"We were made for song."
One Blue Sky | SSAA chorus a cappella | 4'
"Maybe the stars spell different stories to you, to me,
but in the darkness of the night, they are light enough to see by.
Returning | SSAA chorus with audience refrain | 5.5'
"The geese you saw leaving, their feet rising
into dark bodies, they will return."
Ring Out, Ye Bells! | SA chorus & piano | 4'
"The rocks and stones, in holy tones, are singing
sweeter than the thrushes."
Threads of Joy | SSAA chorus a cappella | 4'
"A kind of silence, a light beneath pain."
You Find Yourself Here | SSAA chorus a cappella | 4'
"You see yourself reflected; you learn to love what you see."
satb | advanced
ssa(a) | advanced
ttb(b)
Breathe in Hope | TTBB chorus & piano | 6.5'
"We have become experts at recovery.
I hope we become expert at Revolution."
Closer to Home | TTBB chorus a cappella | 5'
"Home will follow wherever you go."
Completing the Circle | TTBB chorus a cappella | 4'
"Stringing memories, quilting them tightly
in winter, with the days of grey and iron nights."
Echo's Histories | TTBB chorus a cappella | 4'
"For her song and flight, Echo is torn apart..."
Faster | TTBB chorus a cappella | 3.5'"
"Suddenly, the unknown world
is opening up to me now."
Glorious, Glorious | TTBB chorus a cappella | 3'
"I will honour Christmas in my heart,
and try to keep it all the year."
Half the World | TB chorus & Piano | 4'
"Such a truth is woman’s right to equal liberty with man."
Love is a Sickness | TTB chorus a cappella | 3'
"More we enjoy it, more it dies."
Returning | TTBB chorus & audience | 5.5'
"The geese you saw leaving, their feet rising
into dark bodies, they will return."
Ring Out, Ye Bells! | TB chorus & piano | 4'
"The rocks and stones, in holy tones, are singing
sweeter than the thrushes."
You Find Yourself Here | TTBB chorus a cappella | 4'
"You see yourself reflected; you learn to love what you see."
A Different Kind of Flight | SSATTB chorus a cappella | 14'
"We time our flight against the limits of breath."
SATB chorus a cappella with soloists | 4'
"On the rim of summer, the bones of winter under our feet..."
All We Need | SATB chorus a cappella | 4.5'
"All we want is to find the love
in the faces of the people we love."
Footnotes to a History of Music | SATB chorus with divisi | 10'
"When she unfurled the score,
a sequence of unfamiliar chords sounded..."
History's Stories | SSAATTBB chorus a cappella | 5'
"Our voices rise and leave, traveling, raveling..."
How to Go On | SSAATTBB chorus a cappella | 35'
"How can we go on, knowing the end of the story?"
I am Music | SATB chorus & piano | 6'
"Through me spirits immortal speak the message that
makes the world weep."
I Was Born | SATB chorus & cello | 7'
"I hope you feel like all of my life
and you will."
SATB chorus & orchestra,
SATB chorus & chamber ensemble,
or SATB chorus & piano
"If I say yes, it won't be to some unknown future,
but a yes to what we already have."
In the Middle | SATB chorus & piano | 5'
"Sometimes we take off our watches..."
In the Silence | SATB chorus a cappella | 6'
"That I may hear the snow as it kisses the earth..."
Light of Late November | SATB chorus a cappella | 4'
"Praise the light of late November,
the thin sunlight that goes deep in the bones."
Lodestar | SATB chorus & treble soloist | 6'
"Even a swimmer as strong as you
needs a ship sometimes—even you."
Perhaps | SATB chorus a cappella | 3.5'
"Perhaps we may live an answer or illuminate a story."
Sometimes Peace Comes | SATB chorus & alto soloist | 4'
"Sometimes peace is like this: endless and gentle and soft."
Spiritus Mundi | SATB chorus a cappella | 5.5'
"Let the gentle tether of our longing keep us here..."
A Valentine for Hands | SATB chorus a cappella | 4'
"simplest—touched—sounding—hours"
Vital Dance | SATB chorus & piano | 5'
"Why do I sleep, knowing that time will pass as I do?"
What Are We Becoming | SATB chorus & organ | 20'
"What else could we be?"
Without You | SATB chorus a cappella | 6.5'
"That this old blue world will keep on spinning, without you."
The Whole Sea in Motion | SATB chorus & piano | 6'
"No language can describe the effect of the deep,
clear azure of the sky and ocean"
Flare | SSAA chorus a cappella | 3'
"Through trees with bursting limbs, I am running."
Frozen In | SSA chorus, violin & piano | 5'
"Once again, warmth that falls,
again, though our tracks fill and slow."
Glorious, Glorious | SSAA chorus a cappella | 3'
"I will honour Christmas in my heart,
and try to keep it all the year."
In the Middle | SSAA chorus & piano | 5'
"Sometimes we take off our watches..."
Love is a Sickness | SSA chorus a cappella | 3'
"Love is a torment of the mind, a tempest everlasting."
Spiritus Mundi | SSAA chorus a cappella | 5.5'
"Let the gentle tether of our longing keep us here..."
Vital Dance | SSAA chorus & piano | 5'
"Why do I sleep, knowing that time will pass as I do?"
satb | sacred
As it is in Heaven | SATB chorus & organ | 6.5'
"Not my will, but Thine; and not what I desire,
but what Thou desirest."
Sing to the Lord | SATB chorus a cappella | 4'
"Sing to the Lord a new song,
Sing to the Lord all the whole earth."
