Catalogue of works

Orchestral Music

The Atmosphere as a Fluid System
fl.3perc.str
12 minutes
score and parts on hire

Blue Fiddler
3(I+picc).2.2.bcl.2-4.3.3.1-timp.3perc.pf-str
12 minutes
score and parts on hire

I It Am
see Choral Music below

Overture for the End of a Century
picc.2.2.2.2-4.3.3.1-timp.3perc-pf-str
6 minutes
score on sale 019 385969-6; parts available to order
OR score and parts on hire

Ring of Fire
picc.2.2.2.bcl.2-4.3.3.1-timp.2perc.hp-str
12 minutes
score and parts on hire

Roll Out the Thunder
picc.2.2.2.bcl.2-4.2.3.1-timp.2perc.2hp.cel-str
6 minutes
score and parts on hire

Sky Concerto
flute and orchestra (1.1.1.1-1.0.0.0-timp-3perc-pf-str)
score and parts on hire

Solo Symphony (No. 5)
picc.2.2.2.bcl.2-4.3.3.1-timp.3perc.pf-str
27 minutes
score and parts on hire

Still Life with Violin
violin and orchestra (3(2+picc).2.2.2-2.4.3.1-timp.2perc-str)
13 minutes
score and parts on hire

String Symphony (Symphony No. 4)
string orchestra
25 minutes
score on sale 019 386083-X
score and parts on hire

Voice and Instruments

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
mezzo-soprano, trombone and orchestra with slides*
(3(3+picc).2.2.2-4.2.0.1-timp.2perc.hp-str)
-To be a painter
-Travels
-Franco-Prussian War
-Early Work
-Degas
-Maturity
30 minutes
score and parts on hire
* 15 projections of Cassatt's paintings

Notes Slipped Under the Door
soprano, solo flute, and orchestra
2.2.2.2-2.2.0.0-timp-str
text by Eugenia Zukerman
15 minutes
score and parts on hire

Songs from Letters
Calamity Jane to her daughter Janey, 1880-1902
soprano and chamber ensemble*
(fl.cl-perc-hp-pno-str)
text by Calamity Jane
-So like your father's (1880)
-He never misses (1880)
-A man can love two women (1880)
-A working woman (1882-1893)
-All I have (1902)
13 minutes
score and parts on hire
*also version for soprano & piano - see Vocal Music below

Songs of Light and Love
soprano, cor anglais, marimba, strings
text by May Sarton
-Invocation (A Summoning)
-The Snow Light (A Rapture)
-A Light Left On (A Quietude)
-The Fear of Angels (A Beatitude)
-Evening Walk in France (A Gymnopedie)
18 minutes
score and parts on hire

Sonnets from the Portuguese
soprano and chamber orchestra*
texts by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
fl.ob.2cl.bsn.2hn-perc-hp-str(1.1.1.1.1)
-I thought once how Theocritus had sung
-My letters!
-With the same heat, I said, I'll answer thee
-If I leave all for thee
-Oh, Yes!
-How do I love thee!
20 minutes
score and parts on hire
*also version for soprano and piano - see Vocal Music below

Wind Ensemble

Concert Dances
picc.2.1.2(1+E=).acl.bcl.4sax.1-3ct/tpt.3.3euph.1-timp.3perc.pno
16 minutes
score and parts on hire

Fanfare: Strum
picc.2.2.3(I=Eb,II+III=A).1.cbn-4.3.3.1 - timp.hi-hat - cb
4 minutes
score and parts on hire

Holy Roller (arr. Boyd)
alto saxophone and wind ensemble*
picc.2.2.ca.Ebcl.3cl.bcl.cbcl.4sax.2cbn-4.4.flug.4.euph.1-timp.3perc.2mallets.pno(+cel)-string bass
11 minutes
score and parts on hire
*also version for alto saxophone and piano - see Instrumental Music below

Short Symphony
picc.2.2.ca.3.bcl.3sax.2-3.4.3.euph.2-timp.3perc-pno
13 minutes
score and parts on hire

Strut
picc.6(1,2).2(1,2).2.10(1,2,3).2bcl.cbcl.asax(1,2). tsax.bsax-4.6(1,2,3).3(1,2).2btb.4euph.4-timp. 4perc.pno-string bass
score and parts on hire

Instrumental Music

Barn Dances
flute, clarinet, piano
13 minutes
score and parts on sale 0-19-386578-5

Bid Call
alto saxophone and cello
score on sale 0-19-386842-3

Black Birds, Red Hills
violin, clarinet, piano
14 minutes
score on sale 0-19-386831-8

Blue Third Pieces
flute or clarinet, guitar
6 minutes
score and parts on sale 019 386300-6

Brass Flight
11 brass instruments (4.2.3.2)
11 minutes
score and parts on hire

Concert Piece
tuba and piano
6 minutes
on sale 019 386291-3

Dancing Solo
solo clarinet
13 minutes
on sale 019 385968-8

Fanfare for the Women
solo trumpet
2 minutes
on sale 019 386007-4

Firebrand
flute/picc, violin, viola, cello
4 minutes
on sale 0-19-386846-6

Four on the Floor
piano, violin, cello, double bass
5 minutes
score and parts on sale 019 386130-5

Holy Roller
alto saxophone and piano*
11 minutes
on sale 019 386127-5
*also version for alto saxophone & wind ensemble - see Wind Ensemble above

Slang
violin, clarinet, piano
13 minutes
score and parts on sale 019 386036-8

String Quartet: Schoenberg, Schenker, Schillinger
21 minutes
score and parts on hire

Trio
piano, violin, cello
20 minutes
score and parts on sale 019 386695-1

Viola Sonata
viola and piano
20 minutes
score and parts on sale 0-19-386598-X

Xibalba
bassoon and 2 percussion
10 minutes
score and parts on hire

Yellow Jersey
Two B-flat clarinets
8 minutes
score on sale 0-19-386841-5

Keyboard Music

Blessed Be the Tie that Binds
organ solo
on sale 019 386407-X

Mephisto Rag
piano solo
8 minutes
on sale 019 386589-0

On a Day of Bells
organ solo
6 minutes
on sale 0-19-386786-9

Pentametrics
Five pieces for solo piano
score on sale 0-19-386931-4

Prelude on Veni creator spiritus
organ solo
on sale 019 386460-6

Vocal Music

Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers
mezzo-soprano, cello and piano
-Beloved, thou (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
-Liebeslied (Rainer Maria Rilke)
-Do you know (Rilke)
-White World (H.D.)
-God from me (Browning)
20 minutes
contact Repertoire Promotion Dept

Love After 1950
mezzo-soprano and piano
-Boy's Lips: a blues (Rita Dove)
-Blond Men: a torch song (Julie Kane)
-Big Sister Says, 1967: a honky-tonk (Kathryn Daniels)
-The Empty Song: a tango (Liz Lochhead)
-I Make My Magic: Isadora¿s dance (Muriel Rukeyser)
15 minutes
on sale 019 386345-6

Margaret Songs
soprano and piano
-Bright Rails (Willa Cather)
-So Little There (Libby Larsen)
-Beneath the Hawthorne Tree (Cather)
10 minutes
contact Repertoire Promotion Dept

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
mezzo-soprano, trombone and orchestra
30 minutes
see Voice and Instruments above

ME (Brenda Ueland)
soprano and piano
text by Brenda Ueland from ME: A Memoir
-Why I write this book
-Childhood
-Adolescence
-Greenwich Village
-Marriage...Divorce
-Work
-Art (Life is love...)
-The Present
37 minutes
on sale 019 386155-0

My Ántonia
seven Songs for High Voice and Piano
based on the novel by Willa Cather
-Landscape I: From the train
-Ántonia
-Landscape II: Winter
-The Hired Girls
-Landscape III: Prairie Spring
-Ántonia in the Field
-Lanscape IV: Sunset
on sale 0-19-386721-4

Notes Slipped Under the Door
see Voice and Instruments above

Songs from Letters
Calamity Jane to her daughter Janey, 1880-1902
soprano and piano*
texts by Calamity Jane
-So like your father's (1880)
-He never misses (1880)
A man can love two women (1880)
-A working woman (1882-1893)
-All I have (1902)
13 minutes
on sale 019 385976-9
*also version for soprano & chamber orchestra - see Voice and Instruments above

Songs of Light and Love
soprano, cor anglais, marimba, strings
texts by May Sarton
-Invocation (A Summoning)
-The Snow Light (A Rapture)
-A Light Left On (A Quietude)
-The Fear of Angels (A Beatitude)
-Evening Walk in France (A Gymnopedie)
18 minutes
score and parts on hire

Sonnets from the Portuguese
soprano and piano*
text by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
-I thought once how Theocritus had sung
-My letters!
-With the same heat, I said, I'll answer thee
-If I leave all for thee
-Oh, Yes!
-How do I love thee!
20 minutes
contact Repertoire Promotion Dept
*also version for soprano & chamber orchestra - see Voice and Instruments above

Try Me, Good King
Last Words of Wives of Henry VIII
soprano and piano
-Katherine of Aragon
-Anne Boleyn
-Jane Seymour
-Anne of Cleves
-Katherine Howard
15 minutes
019 386418-5

Choral Music

A Womanly Song of God
SSAA (div.)
4 minutes
on sale 019 386755-9

A Salute to Louis Armstrong
SATB (div.) and piano
text by Louis Armstrong
4 minutes
on sale 019 386228-X

The Ballerina and the Clown
A Hans Christian Andersen Tale
text by Sally Gall
SSA and harp
17 minutes
score on sale 0-19-386673-0

Canticle of Mary
SSA chorus, 1.1.1.1-1.1.0.0-hp-str or piano duet
text from the Gospel according to St Luke
9 minutes
vocal score on sale 019 385985-8
full score and parts on hire

Day Song
SSA and piano
text by N.F.S. Grundtvig, adapted by the composer
4 minutes
on sale 019 386241-7

Eine Kleine Snail Music
SA and contrabass
text by May Sarton
3 minutes
on sale 019 386435-5

Eleanor Roosevelt
speaker, mezzo-soprano, SATB chorus, clarinet, cello, piano, percussion (played by chorus)
text by Sally M. Gall
35 minutes
vocal score on sale 386154-2
full score and parts on hire

Fanfare and Alleluia
SATB, brass 0.2.2.0, organ, handbells, chimes
2 minutes
contact Repertoire Promotion Dept

I Find My Feet Have Further Goals
SATB unaccompanied
text by Emily Dickinson
3 minutes
on sale 019 386152-6

I It Am
cantata for SSAATTBB chorus, soprano, countertenor, baritone, and orchestra
2fl.2ob.obd'am-hn.3tpt-timp-str
text from 'The Shewings of Julian of Norwich'
score and parts on hire

I Just Lightning
SSAA and percussion
text from the Mazatec (in English)
7 minutes
vocal score on sale 019 386044-9
percussion part on sale 019 386045-7

I Will Sing and Raise A Psalm
SATB and organ
text by Saint Francis of Assisi
5 minutes
on sale 019 386043-0

If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking
SSA, woodwind quintet, percussion (bells, vibraphone), strings
text by Emily Dickinson
3 minutes
score and parts on hire

Invitation to Music
SATB and string quintet or string orchestra or piano
text by Elizabeth Bishop
5 minutes
vocal score on sale 019 3860708
full score and parts on hire

Is God our Endless Day
SATB unaccompanied
text by Julian of Norwich
3 minutes
on sale 019 3864092

Jack's Valentine
SSAA unaccompanied
text by M.K. Dean
2 minutes
on sale 019 3865955

Lord, Before This Fleeting Season
SATB unaccompanied
text by Maryann Jindra
on sale 019 3864085

Love Songs
SATB and piano
-Looking at each other (Muriel Rukeyser)
-Clinging (Jeanne Shepard)
-Dirty No Gooder Blues (Bessie Smith)
-Dear Love (Willa Cather)
-At April (Angelina Weld Grimké)
18 minutes
on sale 386133-X

May Sky
haiku written by Japanese and Japanese-American WWII detainees
SATB unaccompanied
6 minutes
on sale 386622 6

Psalm 121
SSSAAA unaccompanied
text: Psalm 121, John Muir, Patricia Hennings
9 minutes
on sale 019 386364-2

Reasons for Loving the Harmonica
SATB and piano
text by Julie Kane
4 minutes
on sale 019 386621 8

Ring the Bells
SA and piano
text by M.K. Dean
2 minutes
on sale 019 386153-4

Seven Ghosts
soprano solo, SATB, brass à 5, piano, percussion
-Grace & Glory (Phillis Wheatley to G. Washington)
-Jenny Lind to Harriet Beecher Stowe
-Blinking Pluto (Clyde William Tombaugh)
-Myself with Wings (Charles A. Lindbergh)
-United Hot Clubs of America (Louis Armstrong)
23 minutes
vocal score on sale 019 386008-2
full score and parts on hire

So Blessedly It Sprung
SATB, viola, harp, and piano
mediæval texts
-Iesu puer immortalis (Adam of St. Victor)
-Lyth and lystyn (Anon.)
23 minutes
contact Repertoire Promotion Dept

Song-Dances to the Light
speaker, children's choir, Orff ensemble, orchestra
2(II+picc).2.2.2-2.2.2.btbn.tba-timp.2perc-hp-str
texts by young people
19 minutes
chorus part on sale 019 385995-5
vocal score, full score and parts on hire

Sweet and Sour Nursery Rhymes
SATB and horn
-There was a little girl (traditional)
-Little Boy Blue (Eugene Field)
-Try, try again (traditional)
9 minutes
vocal score on sale 019 386276-X
horn part on sale 019 3862778

Today, This Spring
SA and piano
-Spring (Janice Kimes)
-She piped for us (Charles A. Wilson)
-If I can stop one heart from breaking (E. Dickinson)
8 minutes
on sale 019 386040-6

Witches' Trio
SSAA unaccompanied
text by Shakespeare (Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 1)
4 minutes
on sale 019 3863952

The Womanly Song of God
text by Catherine de Vinck
8 minutes
SSSSAAAA unaccompanied
on sale 0-19-386786-9

A Young Nun Singing
SSA unaccompanied
6'30
on sale 0-19-386855-5

Opera

Barnum's Bird
Choral Opera in Two Acts
libretto by Bridget Carpenter & Libby Larsen
SATB soloists; SSAATTBB ensemble, mixed chorus
flute, violin, viola, cello, piano, percussion
90 minutes
score and parts on hire

Dreaming Blue
Opera in One Act
libretto by Libby Larsen with texts contributed by students of Mountain View Elementary School, Salt Luke City, Utah, USA; "Red Soliloquy" by John Ziegenhagen; and poetry by James A. Emanuel, Mary O'Neill, Hiawyn Oram
child actor, SATB soloists, SSA chorus, rhythm chorus, drumming group
1+picc.1.1.1-2-timp.2perc.hp.pf-str
60 minutes
score and parts on hire

Eric Hermannson's Soul
Opera in Two Acts
libretto by Chas Rader-Shieber after Willa Cather
8 soloists, SATB quartet, chorus, dancer
flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, 2 percussion, piano, strings
105 minutes
score and parts on hire

for perusal scores, recordings and further information on the works above, contact the Repertoire Promotion Department