Drop, Drop, Slow Tears

Together in Song: No. 3 The Gospel Plow

Canite Tuba in Sion : Blow Ye the Trumpets in Zion

Three Songs on Poems by Lorri Neilsen Glenn

Commissioned by the Canadian Art Song Project for soprano Magali Simard-Galdès, winner of the Jeunesses Musicales Maureen Forrester Tour. This song cy...

The Mystery

Sara Teasdale’s poem, The Mystery, depicts deep lasting love - “Your eyes drink of me” and “We have long been lovers”. It also raises a question - “Ca...

The Mystery

Sara Teasdale’s poem, The Mystery, depicts deep lasting love - “Your eyes drink of me” and “We have long been lovers”. It also raises a question - “Ca...

Morning Train: 1. Going Home on the Morning Train

A haunting setting which is definitely for a reflective, memorial or commemorative type of occasion. The text is by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and is set f...

Listen, I love you

The opening lines, “Listen, I love you. Do not turn your face / Nor touch me.”, reflect the somber feelings encompassing Sara Teasdale’s poem. Paired ...

Listen, I love you

The opening lines, “Listen, I love you. Do not turn your face / Nor touch me.”, reflect the somber feelings encompassing Sara Teasdale’s poem. Paired ...

Everyone Sang Four Songs for Bass and Piano

The songs Homecoming and Quilt were commissioned by the West Chester University Poetry Conference, West Chester, Pennsylvania, and were premiered by b...

American Folk Set

Comprised of fifteen songs, each are mini-dramas. Something is happening in each one of them. Someone is travelling, working, or suffering. Their mess...

Three Songs from Ecclesiastes : Ecclesiastes 1, 2, 2, 22-3, 8, 15

The War Prayer

This text has been adapted from Mark Twain's The War Prayer, which he wrote in 1904-5 to protest America’s involvement in the Spanish-American War. Hi...

The Senator's Stump Speech

Many attribute this text to to Noah S. ("Soggy") Sweat, a judge and member of the Mississippi legislature, circa 1952. This may or may not be true, bu...