Songs: Miscellaneous
(cont'd)

6 Musical Portraits for high voice and piano; composed for
Chakras in a Trunk (1995/2005)

Cleopatra:

“My name is Cleopatra, I'm known as quite a gal” (words by MEW) (soprano and piano)

Queen Elizabeth I:

“I grieve, yet dare not show my discontent” (words by Queen Elizabeth I)
(soprano and piano)

Heloise & Abelard:

Duet: “Must I not love thee?  When the heart would leap …”/Agnus Dei (words by
Elizabeth Oakes Smith/Latin mass text) (soprano, tenor and piano) (composed 2005)

Mother Teresa:

“Most holy and unnameable presence” (words by Beverly Lanzetta)

Merlin:

“Rest you here, enchanter, while the light fades” (words by Mary Stewart from 

The Last Enchantment) (tenor voice and piano, flute obbligato)

Hildegard of Bingen:
“I am the one whose praise echoes on high”  (words by Hildegard of Bingen)

Poetry of James Joyce 

from Chamber Music (for high voice and piano)

1. I, “Strings in the earth and air”*
2. III, “At that hour when all things have repose” (for baritone and piano)*
3. IV, “When the shy star goes forth in heaven”*
4. XIV, “My dove, my beautiful one”
5. XV, “From dewy dreams, my soul, arise”
6. XXIII, “This heart, that flutters near my heart”*
7. XXX, “Love came to us in time gone by”*