Works for Voice & SATB
Five Baudelaire Settings (SATB, advanced, 14:00)
Contact the Composer (unpublished)
Epigraph for a Banned Book (score) (recording)
I Give This Verse to You (score) (recording)
Destruction (score) (recording)
For I Believe (SATB, advanced, 4:00)
For I Believe was commissioned in memory of Jennifer Smith, a choral student at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. At Jennifer's parents' request, the biblical text is:
"For I believe that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor anything in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Jesus Christ our lord."
Irish Blessing (SATB, Winds, and optional Strings, 2:30)
Contact the Composer (unpublished)
Irish Blessing may be performed by instrumentalists of widely varying abilities, from difficulty spanning Grade 2 (3rd parts), Grade 3 (2nd parts), and Grade 4 (1st parts). The work was commissioned to conclude a weeklong summer music camp of band, orchestra, and choral students at Lakeland College in Sheboygan, WI. Having attended and enjoyed many such camps in my own youth, I wanted to offer a concert culmination of joyful song using an Irish blessing – preferably one that actually references the Irish’s great love of music:
Lucky stars above you,
Sunshine on your way,
Many friends to love you,
Joy in work and play –
Laughter to outweigh each care,
In your heart a song –
And gladness waiting everywhere
All your whole life long!
Songs of the American Labor Movement, 2018
(SATB and Piano, medium difficulty, 10:00)
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1. Which Side Are You On? (score) (recording)
2. Banks of Marble (score) (recording)
3. Casey Jones (score) (recording)