Vocal Music

High Voice

*The Lord Is My Shepherd (Psalm 23), 1964 - play

*Four Psalms, 1966-68

  1. In My Distress (Psalm 120) - play
  2. I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes (Psalm 121) - play
  3. By the Rivers of Babylon (Psalm 137) - play
  4. I Will Praise Thee (Psalm 138) - play

*My Heart Is Ready, God (Psalm 57), 1970 - play

Three Songs of Solomon, 1970

  1. I Am the Rose of Sharon (hv) - play
  2. Rise Up, My Fair One (lv) - play
  3. Thou Art Beautiful, O My Love (duet) - play

The Lamb (Blake), 1970 (Pub. MorningStar, 1991) - play

*Make Haste, O God (Psalm 70), 1970 - play

Be Still, My Soul, Be Still (Housman), 1972 - play

Storm Fear (Frost), 1973 - play

*Entreat Me Not to Leave Thee (Ruth 1), 1973 - play

*Out of the Depths I Cry (Psalm 130), 1973 - play

Chanson d'Automne (Verlaine), 1973

*Sleep, Sleep, My Holy One (E. B. Browning), 1973 - play

*It Is a Beauteous Evening (Wordsworth), 1974 - play

Four Sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1976-77

  1. Thou Art Not Lovelier - play
  2. This Beast That Rends Me - play
  3. I Pray You If You Love Me - play
  4. And You as Well Must Die - play

The Prayer of St. Francis (Francis of Assisi), 1983 (Pub. MorningStar, 1991) - play

Pastourelle (Traditional Auvergne), 1985

Sonnet XIII (Louise Labé), 1988

Prospero to Ariel (Auden), 1988

*The Prayer of St. Augustine (St. Augustine), 1991 - play

Music, When Soft Voices Die (Shelley), 1992

The Velvet Shoes (Wylie), 1997

*O Sing Unto the Lord a New Song (Psalm 96), 1998

What Sweeter Music (Herrick), 2001

Four Winter Poems, 2013

  1. Afterflakes (Robert Frost)
  2. Winter, My Secret (Christina Rossetti)
  3. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Robert Frost)
  4. Why Does It Snow? (Laura Richards)

*Published by the composer in one volume as Thirteen Sacred Songs. These songs are also available for low voice.

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Low Voice

David's Lamentation (2 Samuel 1), 1965

Now Begin (Hopkins), 1972 (Pub. MorningStar, 1991)

Clear and Sweet Is My Soul (Whitman), 1974 - play

The Dream (Song of Solomon), 1976 - play

Blessed Is the Man (Psalm 1), 1978 - play

Psalm 19, 1980 - play

  1. Prologue
  2. The Heavens Declare the Glory of God
  3. The Law of the Lord Is Perfect
  4. Who Can Understand His Errors?
  5. Epilogue

Do Not Go Gentle (Dylan Thomas), 1981 - play

My God and I (Sergei), 1999

A Hymn to God the Father (John Donne), 2012 - play

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