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Mixed Chorus - A Cappella
Mixed Chorus - With Accompaniment
Women's Chorus
Men's Chorus
Treble Voice Chorus
Opera
Vocal - With Orchestral & Chamber Accompaniment
Orchestra
Chamber
Solo

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MIXED CHORUS
A Cappella

Ave Maria (1998) Latin, SATB  
3'
      G. Schirmer - HL50483848  buy score
Ave Verum Corpus (1994) Latin, SSAATTBB
4'
G. Schirmer - HL50483403  buy score
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Four Winds (2004) (Sara Teasdale)
4'
i thank you God (2000) (e. e. cummings) SATB
2'
Innocence & Experience (2000) (William Blake)
6'
G. Schirmer - HL50484154 buy score
The Sick Rose
1'
The Lamb
3'
The Tiger
2'
On This Starry Night (2003)
3'
written for a C.F. Peters Anthology of contemporary Christmas carols
Edition Peters - 68034 buy score
O Sacrum Convivium (1993) Latin, SATB
2'
G. Schirmer - HL50482957 buy score
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SHAKESPEARE SONGS SATB
39'
featured on the syndicated radio program, “The First Art
shakespeare songs cd cover
Book I (1989)
5'
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  Hark, Hark! the Lark listen
1'
  Full Fathom Five
2'
  Who is Silvia? (with alto or tenor solo) listen
2'
Book II (1990)
8'
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  Take, O, Take Those Lips Away listen
2'
  Tell Me Where is Fancy Bred listen
2'
  Under the Greenwood Tree
2'
  Come Away, Come Away, Death
2'
Book III (1992)
10'
  awarded first prize by the Chautauqua Chamber Singers, 1993
  G. Schirmer - HL50482648 buy score
  It Was a Lover and His Lass listen
3'
  You Spotted Snakes
3'
  Sigh No More, Ladies
2'
  O Mistress Mine (with tenor solo) listen
2'
Book IV (1995)
8'
  G. Schirmer - HL50482649 buy score
  Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind
2'
  And Will A' Not Come Again?
3'
  When Daffodils Begin to Peer listen
2'
Book V (2002)
8'
  G. Schirmer - HL50485621 buy score
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  I Shall No More To Sea
2'
  Come, Thou Monarch of the Vine
2'
  O Heart
1'
  When That I Was and Little Tiny Boy listen
3'
Fantasy on La Bamba (2007) (Trad.), Spanish
8'
Edition Peters - 68230 (to be released)
little tree (2004) (e.e. cummings) SATB
5'
G. Schirmer - HL50485073 buy score
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Message in a Bottle (2005) (Sting, arr. by Harris)
4'
commissioned by Joseph G. Ohrt and the Central Bucks West Choir
Sweet and Low (2005) (Tennyson) SSATTB
4'
Two Lorca Songs (1994) (García Lorca), Spanish
6'
Las Seis Cuerdas (SATB)
3'
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Crótalo (SSATB)
3'
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With Accompaniment
(top)
A Child's Christmas in Wales (2002) (Dylan Thomas) SATB & small orchestra
28'
Piano-Vocal Score:Edition Peters - 680005 buy score
Full Score & Parts (rental): Edition Peters - P680005R rent materials
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One Christmas was So Much Like Another
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Fire!
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Years and Years Ago
listen
The Useful Presents
listen
The Useless Presents
listen
The Uncles
listen
Always on Christmas Night there was Music
listen
I Celebrate Myself (2000) (Walt Whitman) SATB, brass quintet & timpani
7'
Fanfare Prelude (instrumental)
3'
I celebrate Myself
4'
Oceanic Eyes (1997) (Pablo Neruda, W.S. Merwin trans.) SATB, guitar & string quartet
20'
Edition Peters–EP 68163-S  (full score & parts on rental)  
Leaning Into The Afternoons
4'
Girl Lithe and Tawny
3'
Tonight I Can Write
10'
In My Sky at Twilight
3'
Three Choruses from Tess (1998) (Thomas Hardy) SATB, piano
8'
Winter is White (with tenor solo)
3'
G. Schirmer - HL50483649 buy score
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Arise (with solos for two sopranos and mezzo)
3'
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Come Let Us Chime (Wedding Chorus)
2'
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WOMEN'S CHORUS
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Women in Love (2006) (Wendy Cope)  SSSAAA  a cappella  
12'
Edition Peters – to be released
Summer Villanelle
3'
Two Cures for Love
1'
Loss
1'
Bloody Men
2'
Valentine
2'
Leaving
3'
How Like a Winter Hath My Absence Been (1997) (Shakespeare) SSSAAA a cappella
3'
G. Schirmer - HL50483325 buy score
MEN'S CHORUS
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Love Songs (2003) TTBB a cappella
8'
Edition Peters - P68082
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? (Shakespeare)
2'
Oh, When I Was in Love With You (A. E. Houseman)
1'
A Red, Red Rose (Robert Burns)
3'
A Drinking Song (Yeates)
3'
TREBLE VOICE CHORUS
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Object Lesson (1994) (Octavio Paz), Spanish, a cappella
6'
G. Schirmer - HL50483158 buy score
Xochipilli (SSA)
2'
Niño y Trompo (SSAA) Finalist, Diva Complex Composition Contest 1996
2'
Objetos (SSA)
2'
OPERA
(top)
Tess (p/v score: 2000, full score: in progress) (libr. by the composer, after Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles) in three acts, for 11 soloists, chorus, children's chorus & orchestra
2:15
      on New York City Opera's American Composers Showcase series, 2000
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As You Choose (1985) (from Baudelaire, trans. by M. Hamburger) soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
32'
 
VOCAL
with orchestral and chamber accompaniment
(top)
A Child's Christmas in Wales (2002) for chorus and orchestra
30'
I Celebrate Myself (2000) for chorus and brass quintet (Walt Whitman)
5'
Oceanic Eyes (1998) for chorus, guitar and string quartet (Pablo Naruda)
22'
Three Choruses from Tess (1998) for chorus and piano (Thomas Hardy & Matthew Harris)
8'
Three Arias from Tess (1997) for soprano and orchestra or piano (Thomas Hardy)
11'
Songs of the Night (1986) (Amy Lowell) for soprano and orchestra
15'
Finalist, Vienna Modern Masters, 1992
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in Just-spring (1977) (e.e. cummings) for soprano and piano
10'
Awarded by BMI, 1979

ORCHESTRA
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Hymn to the Sun (1995)
7'
Seikilos Song (1995)
18'
Invitation to the Waltz (string orchestra version, 1988)
7'
Ancient Greek Melodies (orchestra version, 1987)
15'

CHAMBER
(top)

Fanfare (2001) for brass quintet and timpani
2'
Evocation (1996) for flute and harp
12'
Music for Six (1994) for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion and piano  
25'
Island of Dreams (1993) for clarinet, violin and piano  
8'
City of Flamingos (1993) for alto saxophone, cello and piano  
19'
Sonata (1989) for cello and piano  
12'
String Quartet (1988)  
20'
Invitation to the Waltz (1986) for string quartet  
7'
Jerome Foundation/Lark Quartet Series, 1987
Ancient Greek Melodies (1985) for flute, clarinet, 2 percussionists,
      violin and cello  
15'
Starry Night: Seven Paintings for Violin, Cello and Piano (1984)  
21'
Awarded Society for New Music's Brian M. Israel Prize, 1985; selected for recording by CRI
Edition Peters. score: P67299, set of parts: P67299a
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Music After Rimbaud (1984) for flute, clarinet, violin and cello  
8'
Awarded by Musicians' Accord, 1984, and NACUSA (First Prize), 1984; recorded on Opus One
Edition Peters - P67298
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Elan (1982) for flute and vibraphone
12'
Awarded by the Georges Enesco International Competition, 1985
SOLO
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Elegy (2002) for solo violin
3'
Written for a 9/11 memorial on September 11, 2002 at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City.
 
Potpourri (1996) for marimba
12'
G. Schirmer - HL50482829 buy score
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Preludes (1995) for guitar
6'
Suite (1981) for Timpani
8'
Poem (1980) for piano
7'
Awarded by ASCAP, 1981, and The Taubman Institute of Piano, 1987

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