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Vocal/Choral/Chamber Opera/Music Theater:

La Jeune Parque ... Paul Valéry (2026). Eight poems in French by Paul Valéry, P.D.

Carnets ... Albert Camus (2026) Seven Poems in French by Albert Camus, P.D.

Dix Mélodies d'après Georges Bizet (2025). Ten poems by various French poets, all P.D.

Péchés de vieillesse ... Hommage à Rossini (2025) Nine poems by various Italian poets, all P.D.

Capitale de la Douleur ... Paul Éluard (2025) Six poems in French by Paul Éluard, P.D.

Le Marteau sans maître ... René Char (2025) for soprano and string quartet. Eighteen poems in French by Renee Char, P.D.

Das Lied von der Erde ... Hans Bethge (2025) tenor, piano. Six poems in German by Hans Bethge, P.D.

Da P. B. Shelley ... Aretusa (2025) soprano, piano Five poems by P. B. Shelley translated into Italian by Roberto Ascoli, P.D.

La Chanson d'Éve ... Charles Van Lerberghe (2025) soprano, piano Ten poems in French by Charles van Lerberghe, P.D.

Ariettes Oubliées ... Paul Verlaine (2025) soprano, piano Nine poems in French by Paul Verlaine, P.D.

Alcyone ... I Madrigali (2025) soprano, piano Eleven poems in Italian by Gabriele D'Annunzio, P.D.

La Passione Secondo Pasolini (2024) soprano, piano Six poems in Italian by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Sidereus Nuncius ... Galileo Galilei (2024) tenor, piano Seven excerpts in Latin from Sidereus Nuncius by Galileo Galilei, P.D.

Répétitions ... Paul Éluard (2024) soprano, piano Nine poems in French by Paul Eluard, P.D.

Mathilde Wesendonck (2024) soprano, clarinet, violin, viola and cello Five poems in German by Mathilde Wesendonck, P.D.

A C. da C. ... Cesare Pavese (2024) tenor, piano Eight poems in Italian by Cesare Pavese, P.D.

Physiologie du Goût (2024) tenor, piano Eight excerpts in French from a book by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, P.D.

Chansons de Bilitis (2024) soprano and piano Twelve poems in French by Pierre Louÿs, P.D.

Mourir de ne pas mourir (2023) soprano, piano Eight poems in French by Paul Éluard, P.D.

Gödel, Escher, Bach (2023) tenor, piano Texts excerpted from Douglas R. Hofstadter's "Gödel, Escher, Bach."

Ascoli-Shelley Cycle (2023) soprano, [iano Eight poems by P. B. Shelley translated into Italian by Roberto Ascoli, P.D.

Apicius de re Coquinaria (2023) tenor, piano Roman recipes by Marcus Gavius Apicius, AD 14-37, P.D.

John Cage I-VI (2023) soprano, piano 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