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Chamber Music (Vocal)

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Works for Higher Voice(s)

Temptress Helen: Greek Legend Verse Excerpts (2022) | 30'

Soprano & Viola

texts by Christian Bök

Lost Daughter: Songs on the Myth of Persephone (2020-2021) | 29'

Soprano, Flute, Viola, Harp

texts by Oscar Wilde, Rita Dove, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Alfred Lord Tennyson (adapted by Peter Dayton), and Louise Glück

Entwine Our Tongues: Sapphic Fragments (2019) | 11'

Soprano, 2 Oboes (#2 d. English Horn), and 2 Clarinets in B-Flat (#2 d. Bass Clarinet)

texts by Jordi Alonso (after Sappho)

Desiderata: Ten Pieces of Wisdom (2020) | 8'50"

Soprano & Alto Saxophone

text by Max Ehrmann

Wilde Colours (2020) | 9'45"

Soprano & Celesta (or Vibraphone, or Piano)

texts by Oscar Wilde

Si Solamente: Tres Canciones (2017) | 22'

Soprano & Violoncello

Texts by Pablo Neruda

Works for Lower Voice(s)

The Second Coming (2018) | 6'

TTBB Vocal Quartet & Horn in F

text by William Butler Yeats

The Need of Comrades: A Gay Cantata (2017) | 20'

Countertenor, Tenor, Baritone, Piano

texts by Walt Whitman

Passing Stranger (2020) | 4'

Lyric Baritone & 2 Flutes

text by Walt Whitman

Hidden Texts: 2 Songs (2017/2018) | 10'30"

Tenor & Guitar

texts by John Hollander & Wendell Berry

Tenor & Piano

Just A Leaf: 3 Natural Songs (2019) | 8'30"

texts by Paul Blackburn & William Bronk

Fresh in the Triumph (2017/2018) | 4'30"

text by Peter Dayton, after Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway"

Botticellian Trees: Four Tree Songs (2015) | 13'

Soprano & Violin

texts by William Carlos Williams

Soprano & Piano

All in the Sound (2016) | 3'15"

texts by William Carlos Williams

If They Delight (2015/2017) | 6'

text by Gertrude Stein

Soprano & Harp

Like a Red, Red Rose (2020) | 2'50"

text by Robert Burns

Beyond Dimension (2018) | 1'

text by Vicki Hearne