Category: Soprano

LOSS SONGS

Eight songs by recent and contemporary poets depicting various facets of loss: Sheep in Fog, Loss, Pyre, Amabile, Revisions, Looking at your Face, That Could Assuage Us (1 & 2). Plath, Berryman, composer, Levertov, Kinnell, Morley; All CLEARED.

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

TWILIGHT SONGS

MENAGERIE

About the Texts-Although virtually unknown in the United States, these poems for children are
celebrated in France, regarded in much the same way as Mother Goose Rhymes are
here. Almost all French schoolchildren are said to know La Fourmi.
While not all of the poems in this set portray their subjects with such fantastic traits as
a giant, multilingual ant, they all imagine an intricate, singular, and frequently ironic -
- sometimes dramatic – existence. There is the heroic seahorse that no one has been
able to ride or harness, the industrious grasshopper who rests only on Sundays, the
fearful leopard who sings duets with the nightingale, the frolicking zebra who wears
his own prison, the firefly that feeds on the moon as it sprinkles dreams on sleeping
children. All, too, present the kind of contrasting moods and the occasional internal
twist that make them very rich material as musical texts.

IN CELEBRATION, piano version

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LOVE OR MONEY

Singspiel in one act and thirteen scenes.  For singer/actors.  Ranges are as follows: 5 Sopranos, 4 Mezzo sopranos, 1 Alto, 4 Tenors, 3 Baritones, 2 Bass.  Ranges are approximate and can be changed if necessary. Actors/Singers may duplicate roles within a production. Plot Summary:  Diane Forest is an artistically successful author who makes a deal with Mephistopheles to become financially successful.

O mira novitas

Commissioned by TapestryWinner, the 2000 Francis Boott Prize for Vocal Works

Solsange

Comission by Kings Chapel, Boston & Liber unUsualisReleased on the CD Sixth Species, Albany Records TROY1044, 2008

Sudden Music

Commissioned by Mormon Artists Group

PIEDRAS SUELTAS

AFTERMATH for Soprano and Computer

A setting for soprano and computer-synthesized sound of three poems by the American poet Amy Lowell (1974-1925), cast in a single movement of 17 to 18 minutes in duration. Composed in 2009 for soprano Patricia Sonego.

JOY

MISTS & WATERS

I FEEL THE FELL OF DARK