Songs and Song Cycles
Compositions are aranged alphabetically by title. Click on the titles for audio previews, texts, score samples, reviews, past performances, commissioning ensembles and more!
Circumflexions (on Mallarmé)
Soprano solo • 3 min. • Text: Mallarmé, Surgi de la croupe from Autres Poems et Sonnets (French)
Gitanjali (Song Offerings)
Soprano and string quartet (Optional South Indian dance) • 13 min. • Text: James Moore, Writing with Tagore
Incantation from NightChants
Solo Countertenor • 3 min. • Text: Sanskrit
Lullaby from NightChants
Solo Soprano • 3 min. • Text: Sanskrit
Of Heloise
Soprano and string quartet • 17 min. • Text: Judith Infante
On the fault of a crooked earth
Soprano and piano • 8 min. • Text: Richard Carlson
Prayers
Soprano and piano • 9 min. • Text: Kayda Molodowsky, Nelly Sachs
Prayer for the Yom Kippur Service
Tenor and Baritone (as cantors) • 3 min. • Text: The New Union Prayer Book
Sainte
Soprano and piano • 5 min. • Text: Mallarmé (French)
Shakuntala (A setting in Sanskrit for two alto voices)
Two alto voices • 5 min. • Text: One of the most beautiful passages in the Sanskrit language by fourth century playwright and poet Kalidasa
Shakuntala (A Sanskrit song)
Version for soprano, string quartet and South Indian veena • 20 min. • Text: Kalidasa
Song of Spring
Soprano and piano • 3 min. • Text: "Thou hearest the Nightingale begin the Song of Spring", William Blake from Milton: Book the Second
Spiritual (As kingfishers catch fire)
Soprano and piano • 6 min. • Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Lady of the Broom (La dama de la escoba)
Soprano, Flute/Alto Flute, Viola, Cello • 15 min. • Text: Jennifer Clements (English and Spanish)
The Morning Comes
Soprano and piano • 6 min. • Text: "The morning comes, the night decays, the watchmen leave their stations" William Blake America: A Prophecy, Plate 6