Vocal Compositions

Unless otherwise indicated, scores, tapes, and performance materials are available from the composer.

Creeley Songs for mezzo-soprano and double bass, 1993, duration: 11 minutes.¹

• Lights
• If
• Consolatio

Inferno in Gray Major for counter-tenor, keyboard, percussion., & computer, 2006, duration: 33 minutes.

• Preparation
• Cantilena I
• The Sea
• Opaque Round Window
• Under The Pier
• From the Twilight of Day
• This Sea Dog
• Fiery Rays
• And God Spoke
• In The Tobacco Smoke
• Years Later
• An Old Cigale
• Cantilena II

Manfred Songs for soprano and chamber ensemble, 1980, duration: 10 minutes.

• One Pine Cone
• The Loneliness of Mrs. Los Angeles
• Forty Acres of Butterflys

Night Washes Over the Mind for baritone and piano, 2007, duration 5 minutes, commissioned, poem by Mario Luzi, translated by Dana Gioia.

Out Into The Light for SATB chorus, 1999, duration 3 minutes.

• The West Chester University Concert Choir, David DeVenney, Director
• Strath Haven High Sshool Cantata, John Shankweiler, Director

Seven Clay Songs for soprano and piano, 2005, duration: 19 minutes.⁷
Sharla Nafziger, soprano, and Charles Abramovic, piano

• Begin Here
• Dense Clay List
• O Let's Go Visit
• Who Comes
• Drenched Tidings
• Ben-Ray Dots
• Begin Again

Sun of Darkness for mixed chorus and percussion, 1993, duration: 7 minutes.

¹ Published by Theodore Presser Co., Inc. ⁷ Recorded by Albany Records