THOMAS OBOE LEE
Vocal/Choral/Chamber Opera/Music Theater:
John Cage I-VI (2023) [Texts excerpted from John Cage's Norton Lectures @ Harvard University, 1988-89]
Melancholia (2022) soprano, piano [Eight poems in French by Paul Verlaine, P.D.]
Mount Auburn Cemetery (2022) [Poems and texts by H.W. Longfellow, Margaret Fuller, Mary Baker Eddy, etc.]
Sette Versi (2022) soprano, piano [Seven poems in Italian by Christina Georgina Rossetti, P.D.]
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (2022) tenor, piano [Texts excerpted from a book of the same title by Ludwig Wittgenstein, P.D.]
Il Tramonto (2022) soprano, piano ["The Sunset" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Italian translation by Roberto Ascoli, P.D.]
Huit Études Latines (2022) soprano, piano [Eight poems by Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle, P.D.]
Sept Sonnets de Louise Labé (2021) soprano, piano [Sonnets in Italian and French by Louise Labé, P.D.]
L'Après-midi d'un faun (2021) soprano, string quartet [Poem in French by Stéphane Mallarmé, P.D.]
À Rebours (2021) tenor and piano [Texts in French by Joris-Karl Huysmans, P.D.]
La Comédie de la Mort (2021) tenor, piano [A poem in French by Théophile Gautier, P.D.]
De Mundi Systemate (2021) tenor, piano [Texts in Latin by Sir Isaac Newton, P.D.]
Les Fleurs du Mal (2020) soprano, string quartet [Poems in French by Charles Baudelaire, P.D.]
De Mulieribus Claris (2020) tenor, piano [Latin texts by Giovanni Boccaccio, P.D.]
Chansons de Maeterlinck (2020) soprano, piano [Nine poems in French by Maurice Maeterlinck, P.D.]
Kindertodtenlieder (2020) soprano, piano [Ten poems in German by Friedrich Rückert, P.D.]
Aveux Non Avenus (2020) soprano, string quartet [Seven poems in French by Claude Cahun]
Beatrice (2019) tenor, piano [Three poems in Italian by Dante Alighieri, P.D.]
SKK (2019) soprano, piano [Five poems and four haikus by Sarah Kalkert]
Sappho ... Five Poems by H.D. (2019) soprano, piano [Five poems by Hilda Doolittle]
Gaspard de la Nuit (2019) soprano, string quartet [Five poems in French by Aloysius Bertrand, P.D.]
Missa Pro Defunctis (2018) four voices (SATB) and eight players. [P.D. text from the Requiem Mass]
Le Bestiaire (2018) soprano, piano [Thirty poems in French by Guillaume Apollinaire, P.D.]
Marta Mia (2018) baritone, piano [Excerpts of nine letters in Italian from Luigi Pirandello to Marta Abba]
Three Valentines (2017) soprano, piano [Six poems and translations by Elizabeth Bishop]
Illuminations: Enfance (2016) soprano, piano [Five poems in French by Arthur Rimbaud, P.D.]
Seven Short Poems by Robert Creeley (2016-2017) baritone, percussion [Poems by Robert Creeley]
Alice (2015) mezzo-soprano, clarinet, violin, viola, cello [Five poems by Lewis Carroll, P.D.]
H.D. (2015) soprano, piano [Seven poems by Hilda Doolittle]
The Pity of War (2015) baritone, piano [Six poems by Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon & Ivor Gurney, P.D.]
Gaspara Stampa (2014) soprano, piano [Five poems in Italian by Gaspara Stampa, P.D.]
The Lords’ Prayer (2013) soprano, piano [Poem by R. Buckminster Fuller]
Lilacs … a poem by Amy Lowell (2012) soprano, piano [Poem by Amy Lowell]
God’s Grandeur (2012) SATB chorus & chamber orchestra: 1010-2000-hp-strings [Five poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., P.D.]
Mayonnaise Dressing I (2012) soprano, piano [P.D. text from the 1896 Fannie Farmer Cook Book]
Corso’s Marriage (2011) baritone, piano [Poem by Gregory Corso]
O Magnum Mysterium (2011) a cappella all-male sextet [P.D.]
Vincent Millay Cycle (2010) soprano, piano [Six poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay]
De Profundis (2010) baritone, piano [Texts excerpted from Oscar Wilde's De Profundis, P.D.]
Part The First … THOU mastering me God! (2010) soprano, piano [Ten poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., P.D.]
Variations on a Mennonite Hymn (2009) 2 sopranos, violin [P.D.]
Septem Verba Christi in Cruce (2008) a cappella SATB chorus [P.D.]
Walden, opus 123 (2008) lyric tenor and octet [Texts from Walden by Henry D. Thoreau, P.D.]
The Inman Diaries (2007) nine singers and seven players [Libretto by Jesse Martin adapted from a play by Lorenzo DeStefano]
Oscar Wilde … An Opera in Two Acts (Act One piano-vocal score, 2005; Act Two, unfinished) [Libretto by Paul Hodes]
Mechthild von Magdeburg … Minnelieder an Got (2005) SATB, harp & strings [P.D.]
The Flowers of Terezín (2004) children’s chorus: SSA, piano [Poems by W. Whitman, M. Oliver, T. Kushner & Matsuo Basho]
Stabat Mater (2002) SATB chorus, organ [P.D.]
Christmas Cantata (2001) soprano solo, SATB chorus, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, timpani, organ [P.D.]
Hancock Shaker Village (2001) mezzo-soprano & string quartet [P.D.]
Symphony No. 4 ... War and Peace (2001) for soprano and orchestra [Poems by Rupert Brook, Wilfred Owen & Ivor Gurney, P.D.]
Morning Bliss (2000) mezzo-soprano, piano [Poem by Peter Papesch]
Lux Aeterna I, II, III, IV & V (2000-2010) a cappella SATB chorus [P.D.]
Summer Lilies (2000, revised 2016) soprano, piano [Poem by Mary Oliver.]
Mass for the Holy Year 2000 (1999-2000) chorus/soloists & 2222-2221-timp-perc-hp-org-strings [Poems by E. Kirschner, C. McKay, E. Stein & T. Merton]
Love Songs (1998) soprano, piano [Poems by A. Gorges, E. Dickinson, C. Rossetti, M. Oliver & P. Booth]
The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1998) mezzo-soprano, organ [Poem by Elizabeth Kirscher]
Tantric Psalms (1997, rev. 1999) mezzo-soprano & string quartet [P.D.]
Jack and the blues (1997) mezzo-soprano, piano [Five poems by Jack Kerouac]
Poema de Natal (1992, rev. 1996) mezzo-soprano, Bb clarinet, trombone, piano, percussion [Poem by Vinicius de Moraes]
That Mountain (1991; rev. 1992) lyric baritone, flute, Bb clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion [Texts and poems by Henry D. Thoreau, P.D.]
I Never Saw Another Butterfly (1991) mezzo, Bb clarinet, piano [Poems and texts by the children at Theresienstadt]
Hymnbook Resources Commission (1990) vocal quartet: SATB [P.D.]
Unmasked ... a chamber opera in one act (1989-90; withdrawn) S, MS, CT/A, T, BA, BS, 1111-0000-perc-hpsd-11111 [Libretto by Barbara Kuehn]
Apples ... Six "Dreams" by Richard Kenney (1987; rev. 1990) mezzo-soprano, piano [Six poems by Richard Kenney]
The Cockscomb (1981) female voice, violin, Bb trumpet, double bass, piano, 2 percussions [Libretto by Barbara Kuehn]
Phantasia For Elvira Shatayev (1981) soprano, orchestra: picc212-2121-hp-pf-2perc-strings [Poem by Adrienne Rich]
Photograph 1920 (1978; rev. 1982) soprano, Bb clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello [Libretto by Gertrude Stein]