Category: solo voice(s)+large ensemble or orchestra

Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The (after the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Linda Larson, sopranoChris Trakas as Benjamin Button

Dominic Inferrera as young Benjamin Button

Last scene

EatonBB1BirthExcerpt.mp3

EatonBB3Yale.mp3

LOVE OR MONEY

01_-_Orchestral_Prelude.mp3

03_-_Prologue_1_-_Reflections.mp3

30_-_Scene_10_-_The_Truth.mp3

33_-_Scene_Twelve_-_Important_Moments.mp3

38_-_Finale_-_A_Dance_with_the_Devil.mp3

TROIS CHANSONS DE BILITIS

TREEMONISHA

Treemonisha performance: Trilogy, an Opera Company 2009

Words and music by Scott Joplin. Adapted, arranged, and orchestrated by T.J. Anderson.

MAN WITH A HOE, THE

LIFE ALOFT: A Celebration of Flying

Voices optional, can be band alone.

Robert Newell - Life Aloft

TWO PIECES FOR ORCHESTRA (A Spiritual and Blues Fantasy)

Hymn to Freedom

Commissioned by the Center for Black Music Research, Chicago.

Amichai Songs

Commissioned by the Fromm Foundation at Harvard for William Sharp and the 21st Century Consort.

FroomAmichaiInAMansLifeExcerpt.mp3

Emerson Songs

Commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation for Fred Cohen and Currents, with soprano Christine Schadeberg

“Schadeberg sang Froom’s eloquent, interesting ‘Emerson Songs.’ . . . Her singing of the last line . . . was certainly powerful enough to convey the rapt vision of love the words expressed.  But the instrumental conclusion took the intensity that much further up the scale.” (William Glackin, The Sacramento Bee)

FroomEmersonSongsMov3Excerpt.mp3

CANTO V - AN OPERA IN ONE ACT

THE SONG OF SONGS

I had the opportunity of hearing Chana Bloch read from her translation of The Song of Songs shortly after it was published in 1995. I was deeply moved by the beauty of this sensual poem, and knew I would one day set it to music. The story about the sexual awakening of a young woman and her lover is told in a series of subtly articulated scenes, where the two meet in an idealized landscape of fertility and abundance and discover the pleasures of love. The work is in 5 movements. I excerpted some of the most powerfully emotional sections of the poem, alternating between the woman and man, before a final ecstatic duet.

SPIRITUAL CYCLE

LA GUERRE

A trilogy for soprano and chamber ensemble employing poems on the subject of war by Ezra Pound, Randall Jarrell, and e.e. cummings. Featuring numerous extended vocal and instrumental tecnhiques, as well as some graphic notation. The work is highly dramatic and theatrical, and technically and interpretively extremely demanding. Requires professional performers with considerable experience in the performance of new music created in the 1960s-1970s decade.

ONE AT A TIME, TWO AT A TIME

Aria from the opera Frederick DouglasS, often performed in concert version.