Songs with Piano  

ARBUTUS (Adelaide Crapsey)
High Voice and Piano

BERMUDAS (Andrew Marvell), Op. 37
Vocal Duet (High and Middle Voice) and Piano
Publisher:  G. Schirmer

CHANT D’EXIL (Poems of Marcel Osterreith) (2002)
 Tenor and Piano
1. Lucioles.  
2. Anniversaire  
3. Chant du Kisandji
Commissioned by Claudine Torfs

CHRISTMAS 1951 (John Fandel)
High Voice and Piano

A CHRISTMAS SONG (Jacques Mitchell) (1974)
Middle Voice and Piano

A CRADLE SONG (W. B. Yeats) (2007)
Middle Voice and Piano

CUT GRASS (Philip Larkin) (2003)
High Voice & Piano or Middle Voice and Piano,
(Also, High Voice and String Quartet)

DAPHNE (Harry Duncan) (1955)
High Voice and Piano

THE DARKLING THRUSH (Thomas Hardy) (2004)
Middle Voice and  Piano

THE DUST OF SNOW (Robert Frost) (1954)
High Voice and Piano 

ELEVEN SONGS
Middle Voice and Piano
 1. Where the Music Comes From   (Lee Hoiby)
 2. Beginning My Studies   (Walt Whitman)
 3. A Clear Midnight    (Walt Whitman)
 4. The Lamb  (Wm. Blake)
 5. The Shepherd   (Wm. Blake)
 6. An Immorality (Ezra Pound)
 7. What If . . ? (S. T. Coleridge)
 8. Jabberwocky     (Lewis Carroll)
 9. Lady of the Harbor  (Emma Lazarus)
10. She Tells Her Love  (Robert Graves)
11. To an Isle in the Water   (W. B. Yeats)
  Publisher:  G. Schirmer

THE ENGLISH PAINTER (Ruth Draper) (1990)
Scene for Middle Voice and Piano

O FLORIDA (Five Poems by Wallace Stevens) (1983
Middle Voice and Piano (also with string quartet)
1. Floral decorations for bananas
2. Gubbinal
3. Continual Conversation with a Silent Man
4. Before my door
5. O Florida, venereal soil!

GO AND CATCH A FALLING STAR (John Donne)
High Voice and Piano

INVESTITURE AT CECCONI’S (James Merrill) (1991)
Baritone and Piano,
Written for the AIDS Quilt Songbook

I HAVE A DREAM (M.L. King), Op. 46
Low voice and Piano (or orchestra)
Publisher:  Rock Valley/Schott Music

I WAS THERE (Five Poems of Walt Whitman), Op. 4
Baritone and Piano
1. Beginning My Studies
2. I Was There
3. A clear midnight
4. O Captain, My Captain!
5. Joy, Shipmates, Joy!
Publisher:  G. Schirmer

JEAN QUI RIT (Tennessee Williams) (1979)
High Voice and Piano

LIED DER LIEBE (Holderlin) (1984)
Middle Voice and/or High Voice and Piano

THE LIFE OF THE BEE (Five Poems by Jeffrey Beam) (2002), Op. 68
Mezzo Soprano, Cello and Piano
Commissioned by Shauna Holiman

LOVE, LOVE TODAY (Charlotte Mew) (1970)
High Voice and Piano

NERO AND SPORUS (Aldous Huxley) (1952, rev. 1999)
High Voice and Piano

NIGHT (Alkman)
Bass-Baritone and Piano

NIGHT SONGS (Four Poems of Adelaide Crapsey) (1950, rev. 1979)
High Voice and Piano
1. Night 
2. Pierrot
3. Angelique
4. The Shroud

NUITS (Marguerite Duras) (2005)
High Voice and Piano

O LET US HOWL (John Webster, Duchess of Malfi) (rev. 2000)
In High and Medium keys

ON THE MOUNTAIN (P. B. Shelley)
Middle and High versions and Piano

O STAR (John Fandel) (1951, rev. 1979)
High Voice and Piano

PAS DANS MON COEUR (Marcia Nardi)
High Voice and Piano

A POCKET OF TIME (Elizabeth Bishop)
High Voice and Piano

RAIN FOREST (Four Poems by Elizabeth Bishop) (1996), Op. 65
Baritone and/or Mezzo Soprano, Wind Quintet and Piano
1. Giant Toad
2. Strayed Crab
3. Giant Snail
4. Sandpiper
First performance Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

THE RIVER-MERCHANT’S WIFE (Ezra Pound) (1962, rev. 1995)
High Voice and Piano

THE SHINNING PLACE (Five Poems of Emily Dickinson)
 High Voice and Piano
1. The shining place
2. A letter
3. The drowned boy             
4. Wild nights
5. There came a wind like a bugle
Publisher:  Peer/Southern

SOMEDAY I’LL KNOW (Hoiby) (1942)
Voice and Piano

SONG FOR LEONTYNE, Op. 32
High Voice and Piano
1. The doe (John Fandel)
2.  Evening  (Wallace Stevens)
3.  Autumn  (Rainer Maria Rilke)
4. Winter song  (Wilfred Owen)
5. In the wand of the wind  (John Fandel)
6. The serpent  (Theodore Roethke)
Written for Leontyne Price
Publisher:  Peer/Southern

SONG IN SEPTEMBER (John Fandel)
High Voice and Piano

SONGS OF THE FOOL (“Twelfth Night”)
High Voice, Lute, Guitar (or Keyboard)
1.O Mistresse Mine
2. Come Away, Death
3. When that I was an a little tiny boy

SONNETS AND SOLILOQUIES (Shakespeare) (2003), Op. 69
Soprano and Piano ( or string quartet)
1.  If Music Be the Food of Love (Twelfth Night)
2.  Let me not to the marriage of true minds (CXVI)
3.  Oft, when thou, my music, music play’st  (CXXVIII)
4.  The quality of mercy is not strained (The Merchant of Venice)
Commissioned by the Arizona Chamber Music Festival

SOUTHERN VOICES (1990-1996), Op. 53
Mezzo Soprano and Piano
1.  Butterflies (A. R. Ammons)
2.  Lullaby (Robert Penn Warren)
3.  Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter (J. C. Ransom)
4.  Berenice Sadie Brown (Carson McCullers)
Commissioned by Lester Senter

THREE AGES OF WOMEN (Elizabeth Bishop) (1990), Op. 51
Middle or High Voice and Piano
1.  Manners
2.  Filling station
3.  Insomnia
Publisher:  Peer/Southern
Commissioned for Phyllis Bryn-Julson

THREE FRENCH SONGS (Text by Arthur Rimbaud) (1952-82), Op.36
Middle Voice and Piano
1.  Le coeur vole
2.  L’eternite
3.  Reve pour l’hiver
Commissioned by William Parker

THREE WOMEN, Op. 47 High Voice and Piano 
(also for voice, clarinet/saxophone and piano) 
1.  Miss Alma Calls (Tennessee Williams) 
2.  Goodby, Goodby World (Thornton. Wilder) 
3.  The Waltz, (Dorothy Parker)
Commissioned for Karen Beardsley

THIRTEEN SONGS
High Voice and Piano.
 1.  Summer Song (John Fandel)
 2.  She Tells Her Love (Robert Graves)
 3.  To an Isle in the Wateer (W. B. Yeats)
 4.  Where the Music Comes From (Lee Hoiby)
 5.  The Lamb (Wm. Blake)
 6.  The Shepherd (Wm. Blake)
 7.  An Immorality (Ezra Pound)
 8.  always it’s spring (e. e. cummings)
 9.  What if . . ?  (S. T. Coleridge)
10.   Jabberwocky (Lewis Carroll)
11.  The Message (John Donne)
12.  Lady of the Harbor (Emma Lazarus)
13.  Twenty-eight Young Men (Walt Whitman)
Publisher:  G. Schirmer

TWO PATHWORK SONGS (Hoiby)
1.  Let Go, Let God
2.  As the Work Is Done
Voice and Piano

TWO POEMS OF VILLIERS DE L’ISLE ADAM (trans. R. Wilbur)
(1952, rev. 1979)
High Voice and Piano
1.  The Gifts
2.  The Avowal

WHEN TO HER LUTE (Thomas Campion)
Middle Voice and Piano

WHERE THE MUSIC COMES FROM
(From, choral versions)
Publisher:  G. Schirmer

WHY DON’T YOU? (Robert Beers) (1983)
Middle Voice and Piano

WINTER AND SUMMER (Ricardo Castro) (2004)
High and Medium Keys and Piano