Light Upon the Water

Light Upon the Water was composed as part of a 2013 Composer Fellowship from The McKnight Foundation, a program administered by the American Composers Forum. While Michael Dennis Browne’s text is appropriate for a wedding, it is also too lovely to restrict it to only that purpose. The music is tender and lyrical, and the rhapsodic nature of the movendo section near the end of the piece is not to be missed! Duration: 2:00

Of Water and Clouds

For the Gift of Water

I've Known Rivers: No. 2 Troubled Water

Love By the Water: No. 2. Fare Thee Well

Five Love Songs: No. 4 Siciliano : Love is like a wind upon the water

3 Pieces for Chanukah : No. 1 Oh, Chanukah/Y'mei hachanukah

Published in 2003, Three Pieces for Chanukah is not so much a set of arrangements of familiar words and tunes than it is a set of original compositions based on them. The first two settings feature jazz-influenced, classical harmonic and melodictreatment of the tunes. The mood of the first setting is upbeat and the mood of the second one is more subdued. The mood of the third setting is extremely upbeat; it is composed in a straight funk style, albeit contrapuntal. The front matter to eachedition features program notes, a pronunciation guide for the Hebrew words and the Hebrew and English texts.

Three Pieces for Chanukah: No. 2 Maoz tzur

Published in 2003, Three Pieces for Chanukah is not so much a set of arrangements of familiar words and tunes than it is a set of original compositions based on them. The first two settings feature jazz-influenced, classical harmonic and melodictreatment of the tunes. The mood of the first setting is upbeat and the mood of the second one is more subdued. The mood of the third setting is extremely upbeat; it is composed in a straight funk style, albeit contrapuntal. The front matter to eachedition features program notes, a pronunciation guide for the Hebrew words and the Hebrew and English texts.