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VOCAL / CHORAL MUSIC
texts are in English unless otherwise noted

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New Work (2008)
for baritone and string quartet
Text: W.B. Yeats Sailing to Byzantium

New Work (2008)
for TB Hellenic choir and soloist
Text: the humble Romanos On the Nativity

Prodigal Songs (2007)
for female vocal trio, 2 violins, and drone
Text: Tess Taylor
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Crying Not for You (2007) - arr. trad. Gaelic song
for mezzo-soprano, violin, and organ drone
Duration ca. 5:00 - 10:00
Text: in English, adapted from the Gaelic by the composer
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Gaelic Sung Morning Prayer Service (2006)
Selected, composed, and arranged traditional songs for weekly congregational prayer service
Commissioned and presented by Marquand Chapel at the Yale Divinity School and Institute of Sacred Music

Who is this King of Glory? (2007)
for three-part chorus: 2 high voice parts, 1 low
Duration 2:00
Text: Psalm 24:7-10
(a separate congregational version will be published in Music by Heart, a new hymnal

Farewell MacCrimmon (2006)
for three-part chorus - SSA, SST, or SAB
Duration ca. 3:00
Text: Ewart Alan Mackintosh

The Passion According to Mark (2006)
for SATB chorus
Duration ca. 25:00
Text: Gospel of Mark 14:32 - 15:47 (for Anglican use, year B)
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George Bush's Notebook, 1779 (arr. 2006)
for bluegrass quartet (voice, gtr., mand., banjo, bass, cowbell)
Duration ca. 8:00
Text: Capt. George Bush, 11th Pennsylvania Regiment
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Lighten Our Darkness - Evensong Collect (2005) for SATB chorus
Duration ca. 1:30
Text: Book of Common Prayer (Episcopal Church USA)
also available, with secular text, as Dreaming in Darkness

Nunc Dimittis (2005)
for SATB chorus with four (SATB) soloists or semi-chorus
Duration ca. 5:00
Text (in English and Latin): Luke 29-32
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Alleluia (2002 rev. 2005) 
for SATB Chorus - also available for str. quartet and str. orch.
Duration ca. 5:00
Text: "Alleluia"
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The Woman Turns Herself into a Fish (2004)
for female vocal trio
Duration ca. 5:00
Text: Eavan Boland
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Benedicamus Song for St. Nicholas (2004)
for 3 Solo voices and congregation
Duration ca. 4:00
Text (in Latin): a Medieval Latin sequence

Sweetly Sleeping (2004)
a Christmas carol for SATB chorus and recorder;
Text: Sara Teasdale

Among the Signs (2003) 
for SAB (three part) chorus
Duration ca. 7:00
Text: Koran, Romans: 20-25, trans. Thomas Cleary      

Wait for it Everywhere  (2002)   
for 2 vocal trios  (SST, ATB)
Duration ca. 7:00;
Texts:  Michel de Montaigne, trans. Screech and
Martin Heidegger, trans. MacQuarry and Robinson

Confession  (2001) 
for SATB chorus
Duration ca. 4:00
Text: Book of Common Prayer (Episcopal Church USA)

Yitzhak  (2001) 
a semi-dramatic work for 3 spoken voices, SATB chorus or soloists, and contrabass or timpani
Duration ca. 10:00
Text:  Genesis 22:1-10, trans. Everett Fox (Schocken Bible)

Psalm 13 – Lament  (1997)  
for tenor, baritone and bass (chorus or soloists)
Duration ca. 4:00
Text (in Latin): Vulgate Bible

No Time Ago  (1996) 
for alto and bass soloists with organ drone
Duration ca. 2:00
Text:  E.E. Cummings

 

 

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC


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Lament for the Flowers (2008) piobaireachd (pibroch) for the Highland Bagpipe

Coraldan (2007) memory piece for harpischord, violin, and bass viol.
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Flight of the Earls: Concerto for Uilleann Pipes (2007) for uilleann pipes and small orchestra: 1+picc.222/22/1perc/str
Duration ca. 20:00
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Beware the Sasannach! (2006)
for band / wind ensemble: 2+picc.2.3+Eb+bcl.2/442+btb.tba.eup/timp.4perc/cb

Duration ca. 9:00
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Gone Today (2006)
for orchestra: 2(picc).22(opt.bcl)2(opt.cbn)/422+btb.1/timp.bd.vib.glock/hp/pf/str
Duration ca. 7:30
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Organ Mass (2005)
for solo organ
Duration ca. 15:00
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An Unwholesome Episode (2005)
for marimba and double bass
Duration ca. 8:00

I got a kiss of the King's hand (2005)
for 3 oboes, english horn, and drone
Duration ca. 7:00
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Alleluia (arr. 2006) 
2 versions, for string quartet and string orchestra
arr. of the choral work of the same title (at left)
Duration ca. 5:00
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Three Pieces of a Girl (2005)
for flute, bassoon, viola, piano - in three movements;
Duration ca. 8:00
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Host of the Air (2003) 
for orchestra: 2+picc.22+bcl.2+cbn/422.btb.1/timp.2perc/pf/hp/str;
Duration ca. 8:00

Subway (2003) 
a semi-dramatic work for 2 spoken voices, violin, 2 trumpets, 2 clarinets (2nd doubling bass clarinet), vibraphone, drum kit, and contrabass
Duration ca. 9:00; Text by the composer

SINGE – Song for String Quartet  (2002)
Duration ca. 7:00

Alone: Summer of '98 (1998) 
for flute solo
Duration ca. 4:00

Piece for Cello and Piano  (1998)
Duration ca. 6:00

Growing Pains  (1997) 
for clarinet in A, english horn, bassoon
Duration ca. 5:00

For Two and Canon  (1997)
for violin and cello -  two movements
Duration ca. 5:00