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Click here to access Psalms 27 & 130 of Three Attributive Psalms

Click here to access sound files for Proverbs for Four at Fifty

Click here to access Three Shakespeare Songs, 2) Come Away, Death and 3) The Wind
 
These songs were originally written for solo voices and guitar,
and were used in a production of “Twelfth Night” staged in 1980
at the No Smoking Playhouse in New York City.
 

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The Long Bright is an hour-long cantata on breast cancer. The premiere was held at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia and served as a fundraiser. raising over $40,000 for breast cancer research. The Long Bright was awarded the 2005 Theodore Front Prize for Chamber and Orchestral Music from the International Alliance of Women in Music.

This work was commissioned in celebration of the 200 Year Anniversary of the Handel Society of Dartmouth College, America's oldest town/gown organization. Eight Frost poems (in the public domain) are arranged into four movements, each embodying universal themes, in a structurally dramatic arch. Movements I and IV are about art and the creative process. The second movement has to do with the nature of time and the ephemeral. The third movement portrays the struggle of the human spirit through the confrontation of opposites. The final movement questions what the art of the future should be.

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Featured in national media, including a feature on the Rachel Maddow show http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/32683512#32683512

In his famous canzone “Italia Mia,” Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) exhorts the warring families of Italy to lay down their arms, stop hiring mercenaries, and take up more peaceful pursuits. “If only,” he tells them, “you would show some pity, then virtue would take up arms against rage, and the battle would be short.” He invokes the “ancient valor” in the “Italian heart” to urge the families to stop fighting one another. At the end, he addresses himself to the poem itself, asking it to go “courteously” among the “haughty” people: “I go my way beseeching: peace, peace, peace.”