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Collections (various poets):

5 “Moving” Songs (poems discovered on the MTA) (1997) (various voices)

  1. “Now let no charitable hope” (Elinor Wylie)
  2. “Transit” (Richard Wilbur)
  3. “Those Winter Sundays” (Robert Hayden) – baritone
  4. “Star” (Derek Walcott)
  5. “Cartography” (Louise Bogan)

The Ecstatic Mystic:  7 Celebrations of the Divine for various voices and piano (1998)

  1. “I am the one whose praise echoes on high”  (words by Hildegard of Bingen) – soprano
  2. Sonnet, “Batter my heart, three-person’d God, for you” from The Holy Sonnets (John Donne) – tenor
  3. “Most holy and unnameable presence” (words by Beverly Lanzetta) – medium voice
  4. “Ich lebe mein Leben in wachsenden Ringen” (Rainer Maria Rilke) (German text) – soprano
  5. “Our Father” (words adapted from the original by Judy Polkow) – medium voice
  6. “Wie der Wächter in den Weingeländen” (Rainer Maria Rilke) (German text) – baritone
  7. Sonnet, “Word” (Madeleine L’Engle) – tenor/soprano

Oceanic Experiences:  7 “Sea” Songs for various voices and piano (2013)

  1. “The Sea Monster” (Madeleine L’Engle) – tenor (1995)
  2. “Inland” (Edna St. Vincent Millay) – tenor/soprano (1997)
  3. “The Mermaid” (Madeleine L’Engle) – soprano (1995)
  4. “The Kraken” (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) – high baritone/tenor (1998)
  5. Sonnet, ”Last night I dreamed we parted once again” (Frederick Tuckerman) – tenor (2000)
  6. "The Convergence of the Twain" (Thomas Hardy) - basso profundo (2013)
  7. Sonnet, “There is a silence where hath been no sound” (Thomas Hood) – tenor (2000)

Death and Resurrection:  3 Songs of Transformation for various voices and piano (1998)

  1. Sonnet, “Death” (Thomas Hood) – soprano/tenor
  2. Sonnet, “Death be not proud, though some have called thee,” from The Holy Sonnets (John Donne) –  tenor
  3. Sonnet, “To Sleep” (John Keats, op. post.) – soprano/tenor

Two Lullabies (2000)

  1. “Ninna-Nanna” da La Cunella (Giovanni Pascoli) (Italian) (1999)
  2. Wiegenlied: “Zum Einschlafen zu sagen” (from Das Buch der Bilder) (Rainer Maria Rilke) (German) (2000)

“Cat and Mouse”: Two Humorous Songs (2001)

  1. “Song My Cat Taught Me” (Eugenia E. Shelley)
  2. “here's a little mouse)and” (e e cummings)

Four Whimsical Songs (2001)

  1. Sonnet:  For an Amorous Lady (Theodore Roethke)
  2. “Toilet Seats”  (Robert Service)
  3. “Come Picnic on Mars”, for Zoe, age 5 (Diane Ackerman)
  4. “Song My Cat Taught Me” (Eugenia E. Shelley)

Two Prayers; poems of Madeleine L’ Engle (2007)

  1. Sonnet: “O God, within this strange and quickened dust” (1998)
  2. Sonnet: “Word” (1994)

Two Holy Sonnets of John Donne (2011)

  1. “Death be not proud, though some have called thee” (1999)
  2. “Batter my heart, three-person'd God, for you” (1997)

 Three Poems of A. E. Housman from A Shropshire Lad  (2015)

  1. II, “Loveliest of trees” (2001)
  2. XXXII, “From far, from eve and morning ...” (2013)
  3. XLVI, “Bring, in this timeless grave to throw ..." (2015)

Two Christmas Songs (2013)

  1. “The Oxen” (Thomas Hardy) (tenor) (1998)
  2. A Lullaby: “Lullee, lullay. I could not love thee more”
    (Janet Loxley Lewis) (soprano) (2012)