THE LONELY DAUGHTER OF THE AIR (2020) 8'

       Soprano and Piano

       (After Sibelius' "Luonnotar," with Finnish text from the Kalevala and my original English text)

Commissioned  by Laura Libby McCall

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BABYLON INCISIONS: SNIPPETS OF WAR PORN (2019) 8'

 Three Sopranos and Piano

 Text excerpted from Roy Scranton's prose-poetry novel "War Porn"

Commissioned  by Laura Libby McCall

and Syracuse University Graduate Vocalists

Live Performance

Recording with Score

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THAMES SONGS (2017) 24' (6 Movements)

     Soprano Vocalise (or Soprano Instrument) and Piano

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NERO MONOLOGUES (2017) 60'

     Chamber Opera; Soprano and Dancer/Actor featured

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Full Opera - 8/8/17

London Performance

Sarah Toth, Bertie Baigent, Phaedra Ensemble Libretto: Sarah Toth/Geoffrey Lehmann

Revised aria: "Ode to the Beauty of the World" (US Premiere)

ACT I EXCERPT - Sinfonia - Aria:

Galba Does not Exist - Recit: A Vision

Addressed to Emperors of the Future - 

Mono: Advice for Emperors

ACT II EXCERPT - Aria: Notes for a

New Civilization - Mono: Eating with

Friends - Mono: Our Sun-God at Home

with Poppaea

ACT III EXCERPT - Mono: Imagined

Scenes from the Second Half of My Life -

Aria/Trope: In Un Sospir - Arr.: Sleep is

Supposed to Be (Copland)

WHITMAN SONGS (2015) 15' (3 Songs)

     Soprano and String Quartet (Text from Walt Whitman and Federico Garcia Lorca)

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ODE TO WALT WHITMAN (LORCA)

MIRACLES (WHITMAN)

Commissioned by Rebekah Smeltzer

A CLEAR MIDNIGHT (WHITMAN)

ALL OF THE DAY SHOULD NOT BE DAYTIME

     SSAATTBB Choir, with SAT solo/group soli parts

Text from Henry David Thoreau's

"A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"

(2014) 8-9' (aleatoric sections)

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RUMORS FROM AN AEOLIAN HARP (2014) 10'

     String Orchestra and Large SSAATTBB Choir, with Coloratura, Mezzo, and Alto soloists

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Text by Henry David Thoreau

MAB (2014) 9'

     Soprano and Percussionist (Soprano uses percussion and moves dramatically)

Text drawn from "Queen Mab"

by Percy B. Shelley

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Commissioned by the

ReSound Duo

MAXIMS AND INTERLUDES (2010) 10' (5 Songs)

     Soprano and Piano

Text from Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil"

Written for Laura Libby McCall and Josh Oxford

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I: Madness

II: Monsters

III: Cold

IV: Love

V: Genius