Chamber Works - Vocal Works - Orchestral Works - List By Instrument

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WORKS WITH DETAILED INFORMATION

2006

Commissioned by The Cleveland Orchestra Children's Chorus

Premiered May 15, 2006 at the annual C.O.C.C.'s Spring Concert,

Fairmount Temple, Beachwood, Ohio

Premiered May 1, 2004 at the annual Cleveland Composers Guild Junior Concert Commissioned by the Kulas Foundation.

 

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2003

Kipling Songs (Soprano, Violin, Cello, Piano)
[lyrics: Rudyard Kipling: Commissariat Camels, The Seal's Lullaby, & Road-song of the Bandar-log]

Premiered March 9, 2004 by Marla Berg, soprano, Susan Britton, violin, Kent Collier, cello, and Eric Charnofsky, piano. Outer movements commissioned by the Fortnightly Musical Club.

2002

First Love (Soprano, Tenor, & Piano)
[lyrics: Christopher Schmitz] 

Premiered March 3, 2003 by Andrea Bargabos, Leodigario del Rosario, and Eric Charnofsky as part of a collaborative project between the Cleveland Composers Guild, the Poets and Writers League of Greater Cleveland, and the Rocky River Chamber Music Society.

 

Composed in 1973 but revised in 2002 for Anne Wilson and the Laurel School 5th and 6th grade choir, this fun piece has had several performances now at Laurel School in Shaker Heights.

1999

Voices from the Other Side (Soprano & 8 Celli)
[Edna St. Vincent Millay: Some Things Are Dark, Prayer to Persephone, & The Curse] 

Premiered at the College of Wooster January 19, 2000 by the Cleveland Institute of Music Cello Ensemble with Andrea Bargabos, Soprano.

The Spring and the Fall (Soprano and Piano)
[lyrics: Millay]

Premiered April 24, 1999 at the Cleveland Music School Settlement on a Cleveland Composers Guild Concert by Heidi Dill, Soprano & Ella Karacik, piano

Night Swimming (soprano, English horn, piano)
[lyrics: Mary Grimm]

Premiered February 10, 1999 on a Cleveland Composers Guild concert; published by Jeanne, Inc.

Robert J. Krause, The Double Reed: Vol. 29, No.1

"Night Swimming is wonderfully descriptive music that is well written for all of the instruments. It is a needed addition to the repertoire for English horn and voice, and I highly recommend it for personal performance and teaching."

 

Donald Rosenberg, the Cleveland Plain Dealer
Stan Hywet Hall Concert, February 6, 2004

"One hears a composer painting brilliant sonic images. Night Swimming is a rapturous setting of a poem by Mary Grimm."

1996

Sonnets x and xxvi (Baritone and Piano)
[lyrics: Millay]

Premiered in June 1996 at the Cleveland Music School Settlement by Andrew White, baritone; and Nancy Brittain, piano.

1988

Sorrow (Soprano and Piano)
[lyrics: Millay]

1987

Sonnets xl, xv, and xlii  (Soprano and Piano)
[lyrics: Millay]

Premiered in November 1990 by Joanne Couch, soprano and Laura Silverman, piano. Also performed on Cleveland Composers Guild concerts in Febraury 1992 (Coeli Ingold and Audrey Andrist) and October 1997 (Eileen Moore and Judith Ryder).

1980 - 1983

Songs for Young Lovers (Soprano or Baritone and Piano)
[lyrics: Millay: Armenonville; The Princess Recalls Her One Adventure; Songs for Young Lovers in a City; There at Dusk I Found You; Huntsman, What Quarry?]

Performances of various songs have been at the Eastman School of Music (1982 and 1983) and on Cleveland Composers Guild concerts in October 1995 and October 1997. A set of four of the songs won First Prize in the Music Teachers National Association Collegiate Division in 1982.

1977

The Fitter (Soprano and Piano)
[lyrics: Millay]

1976

Ebb and Eel Grass (Soprano and Piano)
[lyrics: Millay]

1975

Daphne and Oberon (Soprano and Piano)
[lyrics: Millay]