Solo Vocal Compositions

Compositions in bold and blue designate works of more importance.

OPUS
COMPOSITIONS
22
Cantata VI (Text: St. John of the Cross)
S Solo, Flute & Strings
First Performance - Wheaton, IL 1965
35
Cantata IX: "Tana bata suma" (Text: Japanese)
S Solo, Violoncello & Piano 4-Hands
First Performance - Oak Park, Il 1969
37
"Tears" (Song Cycle) (Text: Anna M. Butcher)
First Performance - Chicago, IL 1971
39
Song Cycle (Text: Hermann Hesse)
First Performance - Chicago, IL 1971
49
"Divine Milieu" (Song Cycle) (Text: Teilhard Chardin)
Soprano, Viola & Piano
First Performance - Graz, Austria 1976
53
"The Journey Home" (Song Cycle) (Text: Anna M. Butcher)
First Performance - Chicago, IL 1977
55
"Quatre Rondeaux" (Song Cycle) (Text: Charles D'Orleans)
First Performance - Elmhurst, IL 1978
61
"Vigil Strange" (Text: Walt Whitman)
T Solo, Trumpet, Viola, Violoncello & Piano
First Performance - Graz, Austria 1979
64
"Freu dich Maria" (Text: Bildergebetbuch)
Soprano, Trumpet, Violoncello & Piano
First Performance - Graz, Austria 1980
65
4 Songs in 3 Minutes (Text: Ogden Nash)
Voice, Bassoon (or Violoncello or Bass Clarinet),
Piccolo & Piano
First Performance - Graz, Austria 1980
69 A
Psalm 67
ST Soli, Oboe, Violoncello & Harpsichord
First Performance - Graz, Austria 1981
69 B
Song: "The Beatitudes"
First Performance - Oakland, CA 1981
95 B
Lullaby' (Text: Orig.)
Voice & Alto Flute
First Performance - Oakland, CA 1991
98
Missa 'Palestrina'
S Solo & String Quartet
Excerpts Performed - Orinda, CA 1994
First Complete Performance - Oakland, CA 1999
100
El Maleficio de la Mariposa' (Text: F. G. Lorca)
S Solo & Flute
First Performance - San Francisco, CA 1992
101
Cinq Canciones (Texts: Federico G. Lorca)
S Solo & Chamber Orchestra
First Performance - Orinda, CA 1993
First Place Prize Winner - Mu Phi Epsilon 1995 National Competition
106
`Cycles of Life' (Texts: David Ignato)
Two Songs for Soprano & Strings
115
Cantata XIII: Roráte caéli
Soprano & Chamber Orchestra
116
Song Cycle: "Letter" (Text: Helen Drummond)
Mezzo-soprano & Piano
First Performance - San Francisco, CA 1996
118
Song Cycle (Text: Hsueh T'ao)
Contralto & Piano
First Performance - San Francisco, CA 1998
Orchestrated for Federicka von Stade
120
Cantata XIV: 'Christmas Cantata' (Text: M. B. Eddy)
Mezzo-soprano & Baritone Chorus & Soli,
2 Violins, Violoncello, Handbells & Organ
121
Four Songs for Soprano & Guitar (Text: Helen Drummond)
First Performance -San Francisco, CA 1998
122
Six Variations on a Fly (Text: Nursery Rhyme)
Soprano & Chamber Orchestra
129
Song Cycle: Trees (Text: Helen Drummond)
Soprano, Clarinet & Guitar
Alice M .Ditson Fund of Columbia Univ. Grant
First Performance - Berkeley, CA 1999
130
"La Madre": Concert Scene for Soprano & Orch
Oakland East Bay Symphony
Irvine Foundation Commission
First Perforamcne - Oakland, CA 2000

Overture to "La Madre"
134
Four Songs for Soprano, Flute & Piano
First Performance - Berkeley, CA 2001
139

Song Cycle (Texts: Jay Johnson)
Voice, Violoncello & Orchestra

145
So Angestrengt
Baritone, Hanbells, 3 Trombones, Organ & Percussion
148
Three Songs
Baritone, Violin & Piano
Premiere, May, 2009, Berkeley, CA
150
Christmas Cantata
SAB Soli, Handbells & Strings
Centennial Commission 2009
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Berkeley, CA Premiere, December, 2009, Berkeley, CA
155
Three Songs
Soprano & Violoncello
To be premiered in Spring, 2015