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Vocal Chamber Music 



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

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!

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

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 SOLIOQUIES (Shakespeare) (2003), Op. 69
  Soprano and String Quartet (or piano)
  1. I f 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
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