Compositions
Chorus
A Green Mountain Songster 1987
1. To Rutland Go
2. Hubble’s New-invented Water Wheel for Cornmills
3. Logan’s Lament
Instrumentation: Wind ensemble and SATB chorus
Duration: 12:00
Commissioned by: Castleton State College, VT in commemoration of their 200th anniversary
Do-wop Orfeo (The Triumph of Love) 1996
Instrumentation: SATB and piano
Performances: Handel & Haydn Society Touring Ensemble as part of Voices of the Stage.
How Can I Keep from Singing? 2013
Arrangement of a 19th century hymn by Robert W. Lowry
Instrumentation: a cappella SATB chorus, Soprano solo
Duration: 3:08
Recorded by the Kühn Choir of Prague, on Voices of Earth and Air Vol. IV (2022), Navona Records.
ALBUM: Voices of Earth & Air Vol. IV
La Ver l’Aurora 2001
Instrumentation: a cappella SATB chorus
Duration: 3:00
Love Sonnet 1988
Instrumentation: a cappella SATB chorus
Duration: 3:15
O Magnum Mysterium 1999
Instrumentation: a cappella SATB chorus
Duration: 2:30
Poem of Joys 2013
Text by Walt Whitman
Duration: 3:20
Performances: Cambridge Chamber Singers
Prometheus Unbound 1997
Instrumentation: a cappella SATB chorus
Duration: 2:40
Performances: Cambridge Madrigal Singers in Italy and USA
Reasons for Music 1994
Performances: Cambridge Madrigal Singers in Germany, Switzerland and the United States
Rise up, Shepherd, and Follow 2002
Arrangement of a traditional spiritual.
Instrumentation: a cappella SATB chorus, Soprano solo
Duration: 3:00
Roxbury Voices 1995
Instrumentation: string orchestra and chorus
Commissioned and Performed by: Boston Chamber Ensemble
Set Me as a Seal 2021
Instrumentation: a cappella SATB chorus
Duration: 1:45
Performances: Cambridge Chamber Singers in Boston and Lexington, MA
That music always round me 2008
Text by Walt Whitman
Duration: 2:57
Recorded by the Kühn Choir of Prague, on Voices of Earth and Air Vol. IV (2022), Navona Records.
ALBUM: Voices of Earth & Air Vol. IV
Three Psalms 1988
Instrumentation: a cappella chorus, SATB
Performances: Cambridge Chamber Singers
Psalm 131
Duration: 2:20
performed at the Kennedy Center in 2007 on Sacred Ground: A Centennial Tribute to the MacDowell Colony by the Cambridge Chamber Singers
Psalm 13
Duration: 4:20
Psalm 98
Duration: 2:15
Winterfest 1990
Instrumentation: chorus and brass quartet
Commissioned by: Unicorn Singers, Hingham, MA
Proface
Instrumentation: SATB. Accompaniments available for harp, piano, or brass quartet
Duration: 1:30
Bring Us in Good Ale
Instrumentation: SSATB
Duration: 4:25
The Boar’s Head
Instrumentation: SSATB
Duration: 3:30
I Saw a Sweet and Blessed Sight
Instrumentation: SSATB, optional soprano solo
Duration: 2:15
What Cheer?
Instrumentation: SATB
Duration: 3:00
Works for Stage
CIRCLE: A Circus for Mime and Orchestra 1978, 1981
Instrumentation: Orchestra. Also arranged for 10-piece chamber ensemble.
Duration: 45:00
Produced for television by Warner Amex Cable Corp. Produced for the stage by Peanut Butter Theatre, Cincinnati, OH.
Monkey 1980
Instrumentation: a musical, for SATB chorus, flute, piano, and drums
Duration: 12:30
POET 1985
Lyrics by: Ruth Krauss
Instrumentation: an opera, for solo voices, SAB chorus, and piano
Commissioned by: Lima West Junior High School
Simpatica 1981
Instrumentation: electronic tape and two mimes
Duration: 12:30
Tales from the Arabian Nights 1982
Instrumentation: percussion and six mixed voices
Duration: 25:00
Produced by College Productions, funded by a grant from the Ohio Arts Council.
Ten Tense Falcons or Wilmette by Moonlight 2022-23
Instrumentation: chamber ensemble and seven mixed voices
Work in progress.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 1981
Instrumentation: oboe, clarinet, bassoon, violin, viola, contrabass
Duration: 20:00
Produced by Peanut Butter Theatre, supported by a National Endowment for the Arts Composer’s Fellowship.
All About Animals 1980
Lyrics by Richard Ruehrwein
Five songs for educational school program.
Instrumentation: flute, sax, synth, drums
Duration: 19:00
Beauty and the Beast 1980
Incidental music for children’s theater
Instrumentation: piano, vibraphone, and contrabass (2 players)
Duration: 20:00
Works for Film & Video
A Vanishing That Lasts 2023
One of a series of short videopoems, with words and video by Bill Yarrow
Instrumentation: clarinet, contrabass, piano (2), glockenspiel
Duration: 2:23
Celebration Suite 1986
Instrumentation: flute, oboe (English horn), violin, cello, piano
Duration: 15:00
Music for a video documentary of artist Mel Fetterolf by Bardidis Productions, Media, PA
Voice with Accompaniment
Blasphemer 2021
12 progressive rock songs with lyrics by Bill Yarrow
Instrumentation: rock band
Duration: 41:23
ALBUM: Blasphemer
Pointed Music 2015
Varied instrumental accompaniments for 38 spoken poems by Bill Yarrow
Duration: 56:42
ALBUM: Pointed Music
Two Lullabyes 1983
Lyrics by Ruth Krauss
Instrumentation: soprano and piano
Duration: 4:00
Instruments
A Jazz Portrait 1994
Instrumentation: big band
Commissioned by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Becoming 1978
Instrumentation: solo cello and optional electronic tape
Duration: 6:30
Colleges of Funk 2017
Instrumentation: big band
Performances: Colleges of the Fenway Jazz Band
Fahrner Fragments 1983
Graphic score
Instrumentation: flute, electric guitar and piano
Duration: 3:00
Fanfare 1987
Instrumentation: two trumpets, trombone, and timpani
Duration: 2:00
Holkenhavn Fanfare 2014
Instrumentation: string quartet
Duration: 0:45
Performances: Copenhagen Strings, Denmark
Holkenhavn Quartet 2021
Instrumentation: string quartet
Duration: 12:30
If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness 1980
Doctoral dissertation
Instrumentation: orchestra
Duration: 25:00
Kill the Bull 1985
Instrumentation: big band
Performances: Ohio Northern University Jazz Band
Samba Calleya 2022
Instrumentation: samba ensemble
Duration: 3:06
ALBUM: Samba Calleya
Sonata #1 for Trumpet and Piano 1983
Instrumentation: trumpet and piano
Duration: 7:00
The Turning Point 1996
Instrumentation: orchestra
Duration: 7:12
Recorded by the Moravian Philharmonic, Olomouc, Czech Republic. Released on Ravello Records.
ALBUM: Con Moto
Two Humors for Horn and Tuba 1979
I. Freely
II. Ironically
Instrumentation: horn and tuba
Duration: 4:00
Visions and Fantasies 1984
Instrumentation: orchestra
Commissioned and performed by the Lima Symphony Orchestra in conjunction with a Meet the Composer grant.
