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Compositions
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Admirable Eccentrics
Genre: Solo Voice
Soprano, clarinet, percussion (x2), piano - c.13:00
Text: Benjamin Franklin, Bill Holm, Eric Stokes
for Zeitgeist; 2004
Blessing
Genre: Solo Voice
mezzo, piano; c. 2:45
Text: Marg Walker
for Source Song Festival, Clara Osowski and Mark Bilyeu; 2019
Sample recording by Clara Osowski and Mark Bilyeu
The Blonde Assassin
Genre: Solo Voice
Soprano, piano - c.1:15
text: Emily Dickinson
for the American Composers Forum's Schubert Club Songbook, 2007
Sample Recording by Maria Jette and Tim Lovelace
Due Canti Meridionali
Genre: Solo Voice
soprano, piano - c. 8:00
text: Mina Ferraguti
No. 1 - Nel grande letto la notte
No. 2 - Quando rinasceremo
Four E.E. Cummings Songs
Genre: Solo Voice, Small Ensemble
mezzo, piccolo, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, bassoon, percussion [2 players] - c.11:30
texts: E.E. Cummings
1972; 1974 (for reduction)
Green Magic Songs
Genre: Solo Voice
solo soprano - c. 4:30
texts: Walter de la Mare, Emily Dickinson, Charles Causley
commissioned by Maria Jette; 2015
No. 1 - A Song of Enchantment
No. 2 - Time and Eternity
No. 3 - Green Man in the Garden
Ithaka
Genre: Solo Voice
baritone, guitar - c.8:00
Texts: George Seferis, Constantine Cavafy
2001
Sample recording by Bradley Greenwald and Christopher Kachian
Leaves Are My Flowers Now
Genre: Solo Voice
soprano, piano - c. 4:30
text: Michael Dennis Browne
for the American Composers Forum's Schubert Club Songbook, 2007
Sample recording by Maria Jett and John Jensen
Let It Go
Genre: Solo Voice
soprano, piano - c.4:50
Text: Michael S. Estok
for the MN AIDS Quilt Songbook; 1992
Sample recording by Maria Jette and Tom Linker
Longing for Home
Genre: Solo Voice
A song cycle for mezzo, baritone, and piano; c. 16:00
Texts:
Jerusalem - Judah Halevi, translated by Robert Mezey
Mother - Bea Exner Liu
Voyager Dust - Mohja Kahf
A Letter to Marianne Moore - Eugene McCarthy
Dancing Toward the Promised Land - Alla Renee Bozarth
Commissioned for the 5th anniversary of the Source Song Festival; 2018
Individual pieces for sale at Opus Imprints
No. 1 - "Jerusalem"
No. 2 - "Mother"
No. 3 - "Voyager Dust"
No. 4 - "A Letter to Marianne Moore"
No. 5 - "Dancing Toward the Promised Land"
Mad Moonlight (piano/vocal)
Genre: Solo Voice
Mezzo-soprano and piano - c.6:30
Texts from THE MAD MOONLIGHT by Louis Jenkins, copyright 2019 by Will o' the Wisp
Books - for more info see www.louisjenkins.com
Commissioned by Schubert Club for mezzo-soprano Georgia Jacobson
with funding provided by Barbara Brown and John Michel
in memory of soprano Ruth Jacobson
2022
No. 1 - Young Witches, Georgia Jacobson, mezzo
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soprano; Carmen Rose Schneider, piano
No. 2 - Old Witches
No. 3 - Bat
Mad Moonlight (orchestral)
Genre: Solo Voice, Orchestral
mezzo soprano and orchestra; 6:30
Texts from THE MAD MOONLIGHT by Louis Jenkins, copyright 2019 by Will o' the Wisp
Books - for more info see www.louisjenkins.com
Commissioned by Schubert Club for mezzo-soprano Georgia Jacobson with funding provided by Barbara Brown and John Michel in memory of soprano Ruth Jacobson; 2020
No. 1 - Young Witches
No. 2 - Old Witches
No. 3 - Bat
Music for Heroines
Genre: Solo Voice
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 2006
No. 1 - In Search of Healing
No. 2 - Filled with Light
No. 3 - Wanting to Know the Heart
No. 4 - I Became Awake
No. 5 - Through Heaven's Gates
Ozymandias
Genre: Solo Voice
baritone, piano - c.4:00
text: Percy Bysshe Shelley
1970
Sample Recording by Andrew Kane and John Jensen
Sappho Fragments
Genre: Solo Voice, Small Ensemble
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
No. 1 - Tell Everyone
No. 2 - Cicada
No. 5 - Hesperos
Three Norwegian Folk Songs
Genre: Solo Voice, Solo Instrumental
soprano, violin - c. 10:00
Texts: traditional
for Shirley Santoro and Marian Hoffman, 2007
Pronunciation by Melissa Holm-Johansen: Ingerid Sletten av Sillejord
Pronunciation: Å vesle Kari vår
Pronunciation: Draumkvædet (word by word)
Pronunciation: Draumkvædet
Voices
Genre: Solo Voice
soprano, guitar - c.17:00
Text: Nancy Cox
for the MN Composers Forum's Composers Commissioning Program; 1983
Will's Ladies
Genre: Orchestral, Solo Voice
Mezzo-soprano and orchestra; 25:00
William Shakespeare
for the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra; 2022
Sample recordings feature Clara Osowski and the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra/William Schrickel
No. 1 - Portia
No. 2 - Juliet
No. 3 - Lady Macbeth
No. 4 - Ophelia
No. 5 - Cleopatra