• Autumn Movement

    2024

    for voice, piano

    Text by Carl Sandburg

  • Death Carol

    2016, revised 2024

    for Choir SATB, orchestra: English horn, Timpani, Percussion (2 players), harp, piano, 2 synthesizers, strings

    20'(?)

    Text by Walt Whitman

  • Dust of Snow

    1981

    for voice, piano

    Text by Robert Frost

  • Grass

    2020

    for voice, piano

    Text by Carl Sandburg

  • Halsted Street Car

    2020

    for voice, piano

    Text by Carl Sandburg

  • I Sing Of A Maiden

    2004

    for voice, piano

    Text: Anonymous 15th Century (adapted)

  • My Faith

    2024

    for voice, piano

    Text by Medora Addison

  • My Love Is In A Light Attire

    1981

    for voice, piano

    Text by James Joyce

  • Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal

    2003

    for Choir SATB

    Text by Alfred Lord Tennyson

  • O You Whom I Often and Silently Come

    2000

    for voice, piano

    Winner, Ned Rorem Award for Song Composition (2003)

    Recordings: Spring and Fall

    Text by Walt Whitman

  • Places Among the Stars

    2020

    for voice, piano

    Available from J.W. Pepper

    Text by Stephen Crane

  • Prayers of Steel

    2020

    for voice, piano

    Text by Carl Sandburg

  • Rise, Hope of the Ages

    2005

    for voice, piano

    Text by John Greenleaf Whittier

  • Should the Wide World Fall Away

    2020

    for voice, piano

    Text by Stephen Crane

  • Some Nights In Midwinter (String Quartet no. 1 with voice)

    2017

    for tenor, string quartet

    26'

  • Sometimes With One I Love

    2002

    for voice, piano

    Recordings: Spring and Fall

    Text by Walt Whitman

  • Spring and Fall

    1999

    for voice, piano

    Text by Gerard Manley Hopkins

  • The Angels’ Song

    2003

    for voice, piano

    Available from J.W. Pepper

    Text by Sara Teasdale

  • The Baptism of Christ

    2013

    for Choir SATB, oboe, organ

    Commissioned by St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Terre Haute IN

  • The Christmas Silence

    2005

    for voice, piano

    Text by Margaret Deland

  • The Days To Come

    2020

    for voice, piano

    Text by Medora Addison

  • The Night Will Never Stay

    1981 (revised 2005)

    for voice, piano

    Text by Eleanor Farjeon

  • The Rain Is Full Of Ghosts

    2006

    for mezzo-soprano, viola, piano

    Commissioned by the Indiana Music Teachers Association

    Recordings: New People

    Available from J.W. Pepper

    Text by Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • Thou Has Made Me Endless

    2001

    for Choir SATB

    Text by Rabindranath Tagore

  • Three Songs for Soprano and Viola

    2019

    for soprano, viola

    Available from J.W. Pepper

    Text by James Joyce

  • Wasted Hours

    2020

    for voice, piano

    Text by Medora Addison

  • Young and Old

    2003

    for voice, piano

    Recordings: Spring and Fall

    Text by Charles Kinglsey

  • Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night

    2002

    for voice, piano

    Text by Walt Whitman