Commissioned by Congregation Rodef Shalom in San Rafael, CA, this setting is for their 50th anniversary celebration.

I started this project back in 2000 or 2001, but after tossing what I had written back then (for extremely large ensemble), I started reworking to original text in 2003.  After a long hiatus, I returned to work in 2004, putting together bits and pieces until finally finishing it now.

Just the Scores (no parts)

I.  Introit
II.  Kyrie
III.  Gradual
IV.  Tract
V.  Sequence
VI.  Sanctus
VII.  Agnus Dei
VIII.  Communion
IX.  Libera Me
X.  In Paradisum

A short work for student ensemble, material which will hopefully be used in an eventual fullly orchestrated ballet of Kafka's The Metamorphosis.

Conductor's Score
Flute 1
Flute 2
Clarinet in B-flat 1
Clarinet in B-flat 2
Piano
Violin 1
Violin 2
Violin 3
Violin 4
Viola 1
Viola 2
Contrabass

Unsettling Dreams

Flute 1
Flute 2
Clarinet in B-flat 1
Clarinet in B-flat 2
Piano
Violin 1
Violin 2
Violin 3
Violin 4
Viola 1
Viola 2
Contrabass

This compilation includes The Path, let it be me, I Should Have Told You, La Beaute, and Ships That Pass.  It comprises all of the songs I've written through 2004, and all are for female singer.  A soprano or mezzo soprano can easily cover all three cycles, but the song Ships That Pass is for alto.  

The Auden cycles are also available for individual download on this page, as are the individual songs Ships That Pass and La Beaute.

For string orchestra, narrator, and percussionist.  My longest continuous piece yet, except for 'I Should Have Told You.'  The sermons of Jonathan Edwards with musical background

The Life and Works of JE (24.8 MB)

A lively but clean quartet.  Three movements in a fast-slow-fast structure, linked together by a common harmonic phrase

Messier than the first quartet, with the same three movement structure.  This time, however, the linking fragment is melodic rather than harmonic.

First Movement - Theme
Second Movement - Metric Shift
Third Movement - Retrograde

The first of the Auden song cycles.  For piano and mezzo-soprano.

I - Their Lonely Betters
II - Lullaby
III - The Question
IV - Too Dear, Too Vague
V - Bird Language

The second Auden cycle.  Originally for string orchestra, harp, and female voice, it has been rearranged for piano and voice.

I.  Johnny
II.  As I Walked Out One Evening
III.  Funeral Blues
IV.  The Fall of Rome
V.  The More Loving One

The third Auden cycle.  For piano and mezzo-soprano, this cycle of 12 songs is my grandest vocal work to date.  I'd like to stay away from song for a while and focus on instrumental works, but of course I would consider a specific commission.

As the 12 songs are meant to be performed attaca, I am not putting up the individual songs.

Complete work (35.1 MB)

01 - A Free One (3.6 MB)
02 - Journey to Iceland (4.4 MB)
03 - A Florid Music (0.6 MB)
04 - Strike for the Heart (1.2 MB)
05 - Leap Before You Look (2.4 MB)
06 - If I Could Tell You (4.6 MB)
07 - Another Time (1.4 MB)
08 - Lady Weeping at the Crossroads (3.0 MB)
09 - Walks (3.7 MB)
10 - Since (4.2 MB)
11 - Iceland Revisited (2.1 MB)
12 - An Unknown Citizen (3.5 MB)

A short but lovely atonal song for piano and alto, this song shows the potential for atonal writing.

Included originally but subsequently cut from the score for The Gods Hate Kansas, this is a nice little setting of a poem by Baudelaire.

For string orchestra (including bass) and two pianos, this work was my first paid commission.  Four movements in the standard symphony form, though shorter.