Compositions Listed Alphabetically By Title

B

Bega

SSATTBB, piano

c.6:15

text: Mary L. C. Picktthall "Bega"

for 2011 Ithaca College Choral Composition Festival; 2011

Program Note | Audio Sample | Perusal Copy

available from Beady Eyes Publishing

The Blonde Assassin

soprano, piano
c. 1:15
for the American Composers Forum's Schubert Club Songbook, 2007
text: Emily Dickinson

Program Note | Perusal Copy | Audio Sample
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Bluegrass Mass

(see The World Beloved)

By and By

SSAATTBB
c.3:00
arr for the Dale Warland Singers; 1995
Recording
available from Colla Voce Music Inc.

C

Camptown Races

leader and unison group (optional 2- and 4-part sections)

c. 3:00

arrangement of the Stephen Foster tune

for "A Community That Sings!" - a project of the North Central American Choral Directors Association; 2009

available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Cançoes de Embalar

see Variaçao

Carnival

2 pianos, orchestra
c.7:30
for the Columbus Pro Musica Orchestra; 1990
available from the composer

Children of the Heavenly Father

SATB
text: Carolina Sandell Berg (Swedish), Ernst William Olson (English)
c.3:00
2000

Audio Sample
available from the composer

Children'songs

SA, clarinet, piano
c.9:45
texts: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Lewis Carroll, Carl Sandburg, Winifred Welles
for the Nebraska Children's Chorus; 1996
Audio Samples of all 4
Walton Music Co. Inc., available from Hal Leonard

Christmas Eve, Bells

SSSAAATTBB
text: Alfred Tennyson
c.4:00
for the Dale Warland Singers;1991
Program Note | Audio Sample | Perusal Copy
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Cinco Poemas de Bécquer

SSAATTBB, soprano recorder, guitar, wind chimes
c.11:30
texts: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
for the Bratnober family; 1979

Program Note | Audio Samples | Perusal Copy
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Cindy

SSAATTBB, guitar or piano
c.2:40
arr for the Dale Warland Singers; 1991
Recording
available from Colla Voce Music Inc.

Come to Zion With Singing

SATB, trp, handbells, org
c.3:00
text: Isaiah 35: 1-2, 8-10
for First Presbyterian Church, Racine, WI; 1999
available from the composer

Concerto for Horn and Orchestra

horn and orchestra
c.20:00
for Charles McDonald; 1985
available from Thompson Edition, Inc.

Concord Hymn

S solo, SATB, 2trp, field dr
c.5:00
text: Ralph Waldo Emerson
for the Racine Symphonic Chorus; 1999
available from the composer

Cradle Song

SATB, 2cl, 2bsn, 2hn, str
c. 4:00
text: Isaac Watts
for the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay; 2007
Review
available from Roger Dean Publishing Company

Cyprian Suite

concert band
c.15:00
2002
Program Note | Review | Recording
Boosey & Hawkes, available from Hal Leonard

Cyprus: First Impressions

(see KYPROS: First Impressions)
Program Note | Perusal Copy |Review | Recording

available from Beady Eyes Publishing

D

Dance and Sing

SATB, piano
c.3:00
text: John Gay
for the Macalester Festival Chorale; 1991

Program Note | Perusal Copy | Audio Sample
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Dance of Zálongo

SA/SATB, claves, pno
c.4:00
text: Greek folksong (sung in Greek)
arr for the Dale Warland Singers and District 279 Children's Chorus; 1998
Audio Sample
available from Alliance Music Publications

The Day of Hope

SSAA, oboe, perc, harp
c.12:00
texts: Khayyam/Fitzgerald, Sa'di/HW Clarke, Hafez/Bell, Khaqani/Wilson & Pourjavady, Shirin Ebadi
for the Augsburg College Riverside Singers; 2004
Program Note | Audio Sample of No. 3
available from Roger Dean Publishing Company

Deep River

SSAATTBB
c.4:00
arr for the Dale Warland Singers; 1994
Recording
available from Colla Voce Music Inc.

Dragons

piano 4 hands
c.2:00
for the MN Music Teachers Association; 1981
available from the composer

Due Canti Meridionali

soprano, piano

text: Mina Ferraguti

1989

c. 8:00

Program Note | Perusal Copy | Audio Sample
available from Beady Eye Publishing

E

Elegy

SSSSAAAATB, viola, handbells, strings
text: Samuel Johnson
c.11:30
1988

Program Note | Perusal Copy
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

An Elizabethan Garland

SSAATTBB
c.13:00
texts: anonymous, John Fletcher, Samuel Daniel
for the Dale Warland Singers; 1994

Program Note | Audio Samples | Perusal Copy
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Encore une aubade

violin, piano

c.2:45

2012

available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Epigrams, Epitaphs

SATB, piano 4-hands
c.16:00
texts: Matthew Prior, John Gay, Samuel Wesley, Horace Walpole, Ben Jonson
for the Grand Rapids Area Community Chorus; 1986
Program Note | Audio Samples of No. 2, 4 and 5 | Perusal Copy
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Epitaph on Two Piping Bullfinches

(Epigrams, Epitaphs #4)
Audio Sample

F

Fantasia TON-Y-BOTEL

organ
c.11:30
for the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis; 1991
Program Note | Audio Sample | Perusal Copy

available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Fog

(Children'songs No. 3)
Audio Sample

Forth in Thy Name

SATB, congregation, organ, handbells
c.4:00
text: Charles Wesley (1749)
for Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church in honor of Hamline University's 150th Anniversary; 2003
Program Note
available from the composer

Four Chorale Meditations

violin
c.14:00
for Jean Marker DeVere; 1982
Program Note | Perusal Copy | Audio Sample
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Franklin Credo

SATB
c.1:45
text: Benjamin Franklin
for the Church of the Advent, Nashville; 1996

Program Note | Perusal Copy
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

From the Good Earth

SSA. pno
c.4:15
text: Pearl S. Buck
for Randolph-Macon Woman's College Chorale; 2004
Program Note | Perusal Copy | Audio Sample
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

G

God Bless the Young Folk

alto, baritone, piano
c. 3:00
text: WEB DuBois Prayers for Dark People; The Talented Tenth
for VocalEssence's Talented Tenth Apprentice Program; 2008

Audio Sample
available from the composer

Golden Slumbers

SATTBB
c.3:15
text: Thomas Dekker
1994

Program Note | Perusal Copy
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Great Day

SSAATTBB
c.3:00
for the Gordon College Choir; 2005
available from Roger Dean Publishing Company

Gyri

clarinet, piano, tabla
c.16:00
for choreography by Andrew Rist; 1979
available from the composer

H

Hark, Glad Songs

SATB, 2 trp, 2 trb, organ

c. 4:30

text: Psalm 118: 1-2, 14-24

for the Williamsburg United Methodist Church; 2008

available from the composer

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

SATB divisi, oboe, handbells
c.2:45
arr for the Dale Warland Singers; 2001
Recording | Audio Sample
available from Colla Voce Music Inc.

He Thought He Saw

(Children'songs No. 2)
Audio Sample

Hodie

SSAATTBB
c.3:15
text: traditional
1998

Recording | Audio Sample
Walton Music Co. Inc., available from Hal Leonard

Holy Ground

hymn tune + kybd/SATB
c.2:00
text: Kendyl Gibbons
for the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis; 2001
available from the composer

I

I Sing the Birth

SATB divisi, percussion
c.14:00
texts: Ben Jonson, German 14th Century, Wedderburn 1567, Hilaire Belloc, Charles Wesley
for the South Bend Chamber Singers; 2003
Program Note | Perusal Copy
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

In the Bleak Midwinter

SATB divisi, S & T solos
c.3:30
arr for the Dale Warland Singers; 2001
Recording
available from the composer

ITHAKI/Ithaca

baritone, guitar
c.8:00
2001
Program Note | Perusal Copy | Review | Recording
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

J

Jerome Hill's Canary Music

flute, harpsichord
from film music fragments by Jerome Hill
for the Jerome Foundation, 2005
available from the composer

K

The King of Yellow Butterflies

SATB
c.3:00
text: Vachel Lindsay
for the MN Music Educators Association and the American Choral Directors Association of MN; 1993
Program Note | Recording | Perusal Copy | Audio Sample
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

KYPROS: First Impressions

alto fl, 2vln, vla, cello, bass
c.9:00
for Sigma Alpha Iota, Minneapolis/St. Paul Alumnae Chapter; 2000
Program Note | Review | Recording
available from the composer

L

The Last Invocation

SSAATTBB
c.3:00
text: Walt Whitman
for the Plymouth Music Series of MN; 1988
Program Note | Recording | Audio Sample
Boosey & Hawkes, available from Hal Leonard

Laudato si, mi Signore

SATB divisi
c.12:00
text: St. Francis of Assisi
for the Gordon College Choir; 2003
available from Schaffner Publishing Company

Leaves Are My Flowers Now

soprano, piano
c. 4:30
for the American Composers Forum's Schubert Club Songbook, 2007
text: Michael Dennis Browne

Program Note | Perusal Copy | Audio Sample
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Legend

2 piccolos, piano or orchestra
c.10:00
for Mary Laurie; 1990
Program Note | Recording
available from Meridian Integrated Media, Ltd.

Let It Go

soprano, piano
c.4:50
the MN AIDS Quilt Songbook; 1992
Program Note | Perusal Copy | Recording
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Lilacs

SATB divisi

c. 5:30

text: Walt Whitman

for the Springfield Choral Society; 2009

available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Little Potato

SATB divisi
c. 3:30
arrangement of a song by Malcolm Dalglish
1989
Recording
available from Ooolitic Music

Long, Long Ago

SATB, organ
text: anonymous
c.1:45
1985
Boosey & Hawkes, available from Hal Leonard

M

Ma Tovu

SATB

c.2:00

text: traditional

for the B'nai Emet Synagogue Choir, Steve Barnett, conductor; 1973

available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Mad Magnificent Herald

SATB
c.6:30
text: E. E. Cummings
for Hobart and William Smith Colleges' Cantori; 1998
available from the composer

A Man with a Little Pleated Piano

(Children'songs No. 4)
Audio Sample

Many Songs I've Heard

two pianos

c. 13:00

available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Marian Variants

concert band
c. 4:30
for the Gordon College Wind Ensemble
Program Note
available from the composer

McKay

(An American Thanksgiving #2)
Recording

Meditation (Silent Amidah)

SATB

c.1:30

for the B'nai Emet Synagogue Choir, Steve Barnett, conductor; 1974

available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Meeting at Seneca Falls, 1998 version

sop, mezzo, bar, fl, cl, bsn, hn, perc, pno/cel, 2vln, vla, cello, bass
c.24:00
Upper Midwest Women's History Center; 1998
available from the composer

Meeting at Seneca Falls, 2006 version

sop, mezzo, bar, pno, perc (mba, maracas, trgl, 3 sus cym [lg, med, splash], s dr, sm wdblk, orch bells, claves, cast, b dr, 2 toms)
c. 45:00
Diversity Festival, Red Wing, MN; 2006, a revision of the 1998 version

Audio Sample

available from the composer

Melted Into Dreams

SSAATTBB
c.5:00
text: The Tempest IV, i ; William Shakespeare
for the Rochester Chorale Arts Ensemble; 2001

Program Note | Perusal Copy | Audio Sample
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Minnesota, That's Me

SATB
c. 5:00
text: Marisha Chamberlain
for the Minnesota Voices Project of the American Composers Forum 2008
available from the composer

Music for Heroines

soprano, harp
c. 12:00
for the publication of Heroines: Transformation in the Face of Breast Cancer
a book of photographs and poetry by Jila Nikpay
Program Note | Perusal Copy | Review
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Music for IMMIX

brass quartet, string quartet, percussion
c.12:00
for the MN Composers Forum's Composers Commissioning Program
for choreography by Andrew Rist;1980
available from the composer

My Own Epitaph

(Epigrams, Epitaphs #2)
Audio Sample

My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord

SATB divisi
c.3:30
arr for the Dale Warland Singers; 2001
Recording | Audio Sample
available from Colla Voce Music Inc.

The Mysterious Brass Band

brass quintet
c.8:00
for Jane Hogan; 1990
available from Thompson Edition, Inc.

The Mystic Trumpeter

SSAATTBB, trp
c.12:00
text: Walt Whitman
for the Dale Warland Singers; 1997

Program Note | Perusal Copy | Audio Sample
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Mythical Journeys

flute, guitar
c.16:00
for the Upper Midwest Flute Association and the Minnesota Guitar Society; 1991
Program Note | Perusal Copy | Review | Recording
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

N

Ninety-Third Psalm

(An American Thanksgiving #3)
Audio Sample

Nocturne

chamber orchestra
c.12:00
1980
Program Note
available from the composer

O

Oh, Yes!

SATB
c.3:45
arr for the Dale Warland Singers; 1996
Recording
Walton Music Co. Inc., available from Hal Leonard

Old Dan Tucker

SA (TB enhanced), piano

c.3:00

2011

Walton Music Co. Inc., available from Hal Leonard

On My First Son

(Epigrams, Epitaphs #5)
Audio Sample

One Equal Music

TTBB divisi
c.4:30
text: John Donne
for the Harvard Glee Club; 2001

Program Note | Perusal Copy | Audio Sample
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Overture: Southeast Sunday

concert band
c.6:15
for the Southeast Minnesota Conference Honor Band; 1996
available from the composer

Overture: The People's Room

pairs of winds, perc, SATB or str
c.5:00
for the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; 2004
Program Note
available from the composer

Overture to a Greek Drama

orchestra
c.5:00
1994
Program Note | Recording | Audio Sample
available from the Free Library of Philadelphia, Fleisher Collection

Overture to the Midnight Spectacle

chamber orchestra
c.5:00
1978
Program Note
available from the composer

Ozymandias

baritone, piano

c.4:00

text: Percy Bysshe Shelley

1970

Program Note | Perusal Copy | Audio Sample

available from Beady Eyes Publishing

P

Piano (After D.H. Lawrence)

solo piano
c.8:40
for Jack & Linda Hoeschler; 1996

Program Note | Perusal Copy | Audio Sample
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Pilot Me

SATB divisi
c.2:20
text: Rev. Edward Hopper (1871)
for the Gordon College Choir; 2003
Program Note
available from Hal Leonard

Praise

organ, steel pan (or marimba, or vibraphone)
c. 3:00
for the American Guild of Organists; 2007
Program Note
available from Augsburg Fortress

Prelude and Romp

concert band

c. 7:30

for the Medalist Concert Band; 2008

available from the composer

Psalm/Ten Thousand Flowers

SATB, mezzo solo, cello
c.3:40
texts: Psalm 46, King James Version; Wu-Men, trans. Stephen Mitchell
for Plymouth Congregational Church; 1997
available from the composer

Q

R

Red River Valley

SSAATTBB, oboe, harp or piano
c.4:30
for the Dale Warland Singers; 1991
Recording
available from Colla Voce Music Inc.

Remembering Khachaturian

orchestra
c.7:30
for the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies; 1996
available from the composer

Remember the Ladies

SA, piano

c.3:20

text: Abigail Adams

2011-2012 MN All-State Women's Choir, by ACDA/MN and MMEA; 2011

Program Note | Audio Sample

available from Hal Leonard

Requiem for Treble Voices

SSA
c.13:40
1981

Program Note | Perusal Copy
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Rocks on the Mountains

SATB, piano

c.2:45

African-American work song

2009

Walton Music Co., available from Hal Leonard

Romans 8

SSAA, piano

c.6:30

texts: New International Version of the Bible; Scottish Psalter

for the Gordon College Women's Choir

2009

available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Russian Sketches

strings
c.14:00
for the Women's Art Registry of MN-International; 1995
available from the composer

S

Safe in the Arms of Jesus

SATB divisi
c.4:45
text: Fanny J. Crosby (1820-1915)
for the Gordon College Choir; 2004

Perusal Copy | Audio Sample
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Sappho Fragments

mezzo soprano, soprano sax, vibraphone/marimba, bass
c. 17:00
texts: Sappho, translated by Mary Barnard and Willis Barnstone
for Turks Head Knot and Charlotte Paulsen; 2007

Program Note | Audio Sample | Perusal Copy

available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Shepherds, Rejoice!

SATB

c. 2:00

text: Isaac Watts; tune: L.P. Breedlove (from The Sacred Harp)

available from Oxford University Press

(#14 in An American Christmas)

Snow

one act chamber opera
c.65:00
based on the short story by Konstantin Paustovsky; 1992
(click here for synopsis and roles required)
available from the composer

Sonata for Horn and Piano

French horn and piano
c.8:30
1973
Audio Samples of all 3 movements
available from Thompson Edition, Inc.

Song of Perfect Propriety

SSA, piano
c. 4:00
text: Dorothy Parker
for the Cornell University Women's Chorus; 2006
Program Note
available from Earthsongs

A Spiritual Journey

SATB, chamber orchestra / jazz ensemble or small orchestra
c.16:00
for Augsburg College; 1997
available from the Free Library of Philadelphia, Fleisher Collection

Stars, Stones, Water

S soli, SATB divisi, piano

c. 4:00

text: Marisha Chamberlain

for the 50th Anniversary of the Minnesota Boychoir; 2011

Steal Away

SSAATTBB
c.4:30
arr for the Dale Warland Singers; 1995
Recording
available from Colla Voce Music Inc.

String Quartet #1: Jewish Folk Fantasies

string quartet
c.16:00
1986

Program Note | Perusal Copy | Audio Sample
available from Beady Eye Publishing

Suite for Two Flutes

two flutes

c.5:30

1977

Sumervar

chamber orchestra
c.6:15
1988
available from the Free Library of Philadelphia, Fleisher Collection

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

SSAATBB
c.3:15
arr for the Dale Warland Singers; 1994
Audio Sample
available from Colla Voce Music Inc.

Syncopated Lady

piano
c.6:15
for Mary Givens; 1993
Program Note | Perusal Copy | Recording | Audio Sample
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

T

The Tears of Mary and Martha

SATB divisi
c. 9:00
text: St. Romanos the Melodist; translated by M. C. Steinberg
for the Gordon College Choir
Program Note | Perusal Copy
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Thank You, God, For Things Bent

SATB
c.4:00
text: Virginia Rickeman
for Plymouth Congregational Church; 1999

available from the composer

Thelma's Country Garden

piano

c. 3:00

after Percy Grainger

for Thelma Hunter; 2012

available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Though Perfect Eloquence Adorned

SATB

text: I Corinthians 13, Scottish Psalter

for Park Street Church, Boston, MA

2009

available from the composer

Three Faces of Love

SA/SATB
c.6:00
texts: Laurie Lund
for Voce Magna; 1996
available from the composer

Three Norwegian Folk Songs

soprano, violin
c. 10:00
for Shirley Santoro and Marian Hoffman, 2007
Program Note | Perusal Copy
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Tirana

concert band
c. 7:45
for the Minnesota chapter of College Band Directors National Association 2005
Program Note
Boosey & Hawkes, available from Hal Leonard

Tiresias

SATB, piano

c.5:00

text: Marisha Chamberlain

for the 2010 Alabama All-State Middle School Choir, the 2010 Salem-Keizer All City Honors Choir, and the Macalester College Choral Department, Eugene Rogers, conductor

2009

available from Beady Eyes Publishing

A Tree Telling of Orpheus

SATB divisi

c.14:30

text: Denise Levertov

for the Gordon College Choir, C. Thomas Brooks, conductor; 2010

available from the composer

Two Little Dances for Steven

piano 4 hands

c. 4:00

avalable from Beady Eyes Publishing

U

V

Valediction

TTBB, cello, piano
c.7:50
text: John Donne
for the Twin Cities Men's Chorus; 1989
available from the composer

Variaçao (on a melody by Janika Vandervelde)

SSAATTBB
c.3:00
text: Janika Vandervelde/Lawrence Fuchsberg
for the Dale Warland Singers, commissioned by Janika Vandervelde; 2000

Program Note | Perusal Copy | Audio Sample
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Variations, Oh Yes!

clarinet and piano
c. 4:00
for James Gholson, 2008
Program Note | Perusal Copy | Audio Sample
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Veni Sancte Spiritus

SATB divisi
c. 6:15
text: traditional Latin
for the Gordon College Choir; 2005
Program Note
available from Roger Dean Publishing Company

Verba Ultima

SATB divisi, sop sax
c.11:00
text: Matthew 27: 25, 29, 40, 42-43, 46-47, 49;
Luke 23: 21, 28, 34, 39, 42-47;
John 19: 30
commissioned by Perry Phillips; 1999
Program Note | Perusal Copy | Audio Sample

available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Vignettes, After Pierides

flute, cello, piano
c.16:00
for Minnesota Music Teachers Association; 2001
Program Note | Perusal Copy | Audio Sample | Review | Recording
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Voices

sop, guitar
c.17:00
for the MN Composers Forum's Composers Commissioning Program; 1983

Program Note | Perusal Copy
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

W

We, The Peoples

chorus, orchestra
c.11:00
texts: Preamble to the UN Charter; Dag Hammarskjold
for the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies and the Dale Warland Singers; 1995
available from the Free Library of Philadelphia, Fleisher Collection

Webster

(An American Thanksgiving #1)
Audio Sample

Welcome All Wonders

SA, SATB, ob
c.4:00
texts: Richard Crashaw, Gerard Manley Hopkins
for the Racine Symphonic Chorus; 1996

Perusal Copy
available from Beady Eyes Publishing

Winter, Snow

SSA, piano
c.3:00
texts: Carol Barnett, Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
for the Michigan State University Children's Choir; 2004
available from Santa Barbara Music Publishing Inc.

Wonder Where

SSAATTBB
c.2:40
for the Dale Warland Singers; 1996
Audio Sample
available from Colla Voce Music Inc.

The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass

SATB divisi; S/A/T soli; fiddle, mandolin, banjo, guitar, bass
c.30:00
text: Marisha Chamberlain and traditional
for VocalEssence and Monroe Crossing; 2006
Program Note | Reviews | Recording
Boosey & Hawkes, available from Hal Leonard

Wynne's Lullaby

piano

c.1:30

for Libby Larsen; 1986
Program Note | Perusal Copy

available from Beady Eyes Pubishing

X

Y

Z

Z=30: Schumann's Excellent Extension

sop sax, perc 1 (hi wdblk, vib, 2 hi toms, s dr), perc 2 (med & low wdblks, mba, 3 cowbells, 2 toms, sus cym), pno
c. 2:30
tunes: Terry Riley - Salome's Excellent Extension; Schumann - Piano Concerto, mvt. ii
commissioned by Zeitgeist for their 30th anniversary, 2008
Program Note | Recording
available from the composer