chorus & instrumental ensemble
advanced satb
advanced ssaa
accessible ssa(a)
"What would we do if we didn't have the privilege
of being distracted?"
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."
"Stringing memories, quilting them tightly
in winter, with the days of grey and iron nights."
For The Daughter I May Never Have
"What can I say to you,
you who may never exist?"
SSA chorus, violin & piano | 5'
"Once again, warmth that falls,
again, though our tracks fill and slow."
SA chorus & piano | 4'
"Such a truth is woman’s right to equal liberty with man."
"You raise black wings like leaves,
like the lightness of a song."
"I want to say, wake up, open your eyes, there’s
a snow-covered road ahead..."
SSAA a cappella | 3'
"One blue sky, fragile as a robin’s egg,
covers us all."
SSAA chorus with audience refrain | 5.5'
"The geese you saw leaving, their feet rising
into dark bodies, they will return."
"The rocks and stones, in holy tones, are singing
sweeter than the thrushes."
The Sallow Harp (coming June 2023)
SA chorus with piano or harp & piano | 7'
"Who is left to teach me to play
those strings that ring like bells but cut like knives?"
"A kind of silence, a light beneath pain."
SATB chorus a cappella with soloists | 4'
"On the rim of summer, the bones of winter under our feet..."
"And so to imagine it the whole world at peace..."
"Not my will, but Thine; and not what I desire,
but what Thou desirest."
""This is where the longing starts, the yearning for another life..."
SATB chorus, string quartet & flute | 18'
"We chart the world with every word we speak."
"Bright flash, big brother, I am catching up to you."
Footnotes to a History of Music
SATB chorus with soloists | 10'
"When she unfurled the score,
a sequence of unfamiliar chords sounded..."
SSAATTBB chorus a cappella | 5'
"Our voices rise and leave, traveling, raveling..."
SSAATTBB chorus a cappella | 35'
"How can we go on, knowing the end of the story?"
1. How
2. However Difficult
3. To See It
4. Relinquishment
5. Requiescat
6. Knowing the End
7. Sometimes Peace Comes
8. When at Last
"Through me spirits immortal speak the message that
makes the world weep."
SATB chorus & cello | 7'
"I hope you feel like all of my life
and you will."
SATB chorus & chamber orchestra,
SATB chorus & chamber ensemble or
"If I say yes, it won't be to some unknown future,
but a yes to what we already have."
SATB or SSAA chorus & piano | 5'
"Sometimes we take off our watches..."
"Praise the light of late November,
the thin sunlight that goes deep in the bones."
SATB chorus & treble soloist | 6'
"Even a swimmer as strong as you
needs a ship sometimes—even you."
SATB chorus a cappella | 3.5'
"Perhaps we may live an answer or illuminate a story."
"Let the gentle tether of our longing
keep us here..."
"simplest—touched—sounding—hours"
SATB chorus & piano | 5'
"Why do I sleep, knowing that time will pass as I do?"
SATB chorus & piano | 6'
"No language can describe the effect of the deep,
clear azure of the sky and ocean."
SATB chorus a cappella | 6.5'
"We weren't done talking yet
So I am trying to call you using the morning glories..."
SSA chorus, string quartet & flute | 18'
"The story line blurred,
the edge of sleep and the wake of yet another storm."
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."
"Through trees with bursting limbs, I am running."
"I will honour Christmas in my heart,
and try to keep it all the year."
"Sometimes we take off our watches..."
SSA chorus a cappella | 3'
"Love is a torment of the mind,
a tempest everlasting."
"Let the gentle tether of our longing keep us here..."
SSAA chorus & piano | 5'
"Why do I sleep, knowing that time
will pass as I do?"
"You see yourself reflected; you learn to love what you see."
SATB or SSA chorus, string quartet & flute | 18'
"The story line blurred,
the edge of sleep and the wake of yet another storm."
SATB chorus & chamber orchestra or
SATB chorus & chamber ensemble | 15'
"If I say yes, it won't be to some unknown future,
but a yes to what we already have."
SATB chorus, baritone soloist & string quartet, or
SATB chorus, baritone soloist & piano | 12'
"This day, my students and I play The Opposites Game
with a line by Emily Dickinson..."
SATB, SA or TB chorus & orchestra or
SATB, SA or TB chorus, strings, harp & percussion | 4.5'
"The rocks and stones, in holy tones, are singing
sweeter than the thrushes."
accessible satb
ttb(b)
SATB, SSAA or TTBB chorus & piano | 6.5'
"To keep our lungs from collapsing, we must breathe in hope."
SATB, SSAA or TTBB 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."
SATB, SSAA or TTBB 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."
SATB, SA or TB chorus & piano | 4'
"Such a truth is woman’s right to equal liberty with man."
"You raise black wings like leaves, like the lightness of a song."
SATB, SSA or TTB chorus a cappella | 3'
"Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing."
SATB chorus, baritone soloist & string quartet, or
SATB chorus, baritone soloist & piano | 12'
"This day, my students and I play The Opposites Game
with a line by Emily Dickinson..."
SATB, SSAA or TTBB chorus with audience refrain | 5.5'
"The geese you saw leaving, their feet rising
into dark bodies, they will return."
SATB, SA, or TB chorus & piano | 4'
"The rocks and stones, in holy tones, are singing
sweeter than the thrushes."
The Sallow Harp (coming June 2023)
SA, TB, or SATB chorus with piano or harp & piano | 7'
"Who is left to teach me to play
those strings that ring like bells but cut like knives?"
SATB or SSAA chorus a cappella | 4'
"A kind of silence, a light beneath pain."
"What will you do with the last good days?
Before the seas rise and the skies close in."
"Boats of mine a-boating—Where will all come home?"
SATB, SSAA or TTBB chorus a cappella | 4'
"You see yourself reflected; you learn to love what you see."
"We have become experts at recovery.
I hope we become expert at Revolution."
TTBB chorus a cappella | 5'
"Home will follow wherever you go."
"Stringing memories, quilting them tightly
in winter, with the days of grey and iron nights."
"For her song and flight, Echo is torn apart..."
TTBB chorus a cappella | 3.5'"
"Suddenly, the unknown world
is opening up to me now."
For The Daughter I May Never Have
"Teach me how to swallow a fate
defined by the absence of you."
"I will honour Christmas in my heart,
and try to keep it all the year."
TB chorus & Piano | 4'
"Such a truth is woman’s right
to equal liberty with man."
"More we enjoy it, more it dies."
"The geese you saw leaving, their feet rising
into dark bodies, they will return."
"The rocks and stones, in holy tones, are singing
sweeter than the thrushes."
The Sallow Harp (coming June 2023)
TB chorus with piano or harp & piano | 7'
"Who is left to teach me to play
those strings that ring like bells but cut like knives?"
"You see yourself reflected;
you learn to love what you see."
two-part
SA or TB chorus & piano | 4'
"Such a truth is woman’s right to equal liberty with man."
SA or TB chorus & piano | 4.5'
"The rocks and stones, in holy tones, are singing
sweeter than the thrushes."
The Sallow Harp (coming June 2023)
SA or TB chorus with piano or harp & piano | 7'
"Who is left to teach me to play
those strings that ring like bells but cut like knives?"
