- ‘Tis a Gift to be Simple
SATB Chorus (2:30)
- ‘Tis You
SSA Chorus, String Quartet (optional), Piano (6:00)
- 1492
Amplified piano and percussion (8:15)
- A Line-Storm Song
Soprano or Mezzo and Piano (4:10)
- A Little Water Music
Electronic playback, with optional video by Kim Yantis (3:04)
- Adonai Ro’i
SATB Chorus (2:00)
- Akhmatova Songs
Soprano or Mezzo, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano (13:10)
- Alleluia
SATB Chorus + brief soprano solo (4:00)
- Amulet
SSA Chorus (1:12)
- And the Night Will Shine as Day
Soprano and organ (6:00)
- Arche
Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (17:00)
- Aseret Makot (The Ten Plagues)
Three-part chorus, flute, cello, piano (3:00)
- Assembly Line #1
Oboe (8:00 +, variable)
- Aura
Orchestra: 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1, 3 perc, strings (18:35)
- Bagatelle
Piano (1:14)
- Baruch HaBa
Voice (1:00)
- Being in Time
Wind Ensemble & Electronics (10:00)
- Birkat Kohanim
SATB Chorus (4:25)
- Black Moon
Orchestra: (1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,6,5,4,3,2 (min) and electronics. (15:35)
- Carreño
Piano/Mezzo-soprano (one or two players, 20:00)
- Chai Variations on Eliahu HaNavi
Piano (21:00)
- Cherry Blossom and a Wrapped Thing; After Hokusai
Amplified clarinet and multichannel or stereo electronics (7:52)
- Cinnamon
Electronic music for 1:11 film
- Cinqchronie
Instrumentation: Wind Quintet (7:20)
- Civil War Memories
Electronic playback (4 movements, 19:00)
- Clave
Flute, Bb clarinet, tenor sax, violin, viola, cello, piano, percussion (9:45)
- COAL: A Folk Oratorio
Chorus, Appalachian Ensemble, Synthesizer, Electronics (80:00, can be excerpted)
- Commonwealth Salute
Symphonic Band (3:30)
- Coursing Through the Still Green
Solo Flute (3:00)
- Doxa
Viola and piano (6:10)
- Dreamtigers
Flute and guitar (13:45)
- Dust & Shadow
Organ
- Elijah’s Chariot
String Quartet and electronic playback (19:45)
- Entreat Me Not To Leave Thee
Solo Voice (1:40)
- Fantasía Sobre El Flamenco
2 Trpt, 2 trmb, tuba or 2 trpt, 2 trmb, horn (9:45)
- Fantasy on St. Cecilia
Piano (16:40)
- Fasting Heart
Solo Flute (8:00)
- Fledermaus Fantasy
Violin and piano or Violin, viola, cello, contrabass and piano (19:00)
- Follies and Fancies
Soprano, Mezzo, Tenor, Baritone, Bass, Piano (orchestrated version, with fl, bssn, vln, vcl, hpschd) (55:00)
- For The Birds
Amplified cello and electronic playback (14:00)
- For the Fallen
Versions for amp. clarinet, cello, flute, trumpet, soprano sax & stereo electronics (7:02)
- Gabriel’s Wing
Flute and piano (9:00)
- Gazebo Music
Flute and cello (6:00)
- Glimmerings
Electronic playback (1:00)
- Glyph
Solo viola, string quartet, piano *(18:00)
- Gregor’s Dream
Amp. piano trio & stereo electronics (10:15)
- Grito del Corazón
Any of the following, either individually or in combination, amplified: bassoon, clarinet, bass clarinet, mezzo, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, viola, cello, marimba, multi-percussion, piano + electronics and optional video) (5:11)
- Hark My Love
SATB chorus and piano (3:10)
- Hearing the Call
Instrumentation : 2 Trumpets (Bb) and 2 snare drums (2:00)
- Hosech Al P’ney HaTehom
Electronic playback (11:10)
- Houdini: Memories of a Conjurer
Cello, piano, percussion (Theater Piece) (55:00)
- House Music
Electronic playback (3:08)
- I Am Rose
SSA + electronic playback (3:00)
- I Love
SATB Chorus (5:00)
- Icarus
Violin and piano (18:00)
- Ice Becomes Water
String Orchestra + Electronics fashioned from field recordings of glaciers (12:00)
- Ignoto Numine
Piano Trio (15:00)
- Jefferson, In His Own Words
Narrator, 2 Fl (dbl picc), 2 ob (dbl Eng Hn), 2 cl, 2 bssn, 2 hrn, 2 trpts, 2 trmb, tba, tymp, 2 perc, strings (25:00)
- Kairos
Amplified flute, computer interface to run Max-MSP (version 5 or higher), foot pedal and stereo playback (16:00)
- Khamsa
Percussion Quintet (battery percussion) (6:30)
- Ki Koleich Arev
Soprano, flute and piano (1:00)
- La Frontera
- Long Story Short
Piano Trio (4:45)
- Lost Angels
Trumpet, bassoon, piano (15:00)
- Love Song
Oboe and English Horn (3:45)
- L’étude du Coeur
Viola (6:30)
- Marvelous Pursuits
Vocal quartet and piano 4-hands (19:00)
- Meridians
Clarinet (9:00)
- Monument in Brass
Brass Quintet Fanfare (5:00)
- Nun, Gimel, Hei, Shin
Three-part chorus with optional piano accompaniment (3:00, variable repetition)
- Ockeghem Variations
Wind quintet and piano (18:00)
- Patterns
- Penelope’s Dream
Cello (8:00)
- Penelope’s Song
Amplified viola & electronics from weaving sounds (9:07)
- Piping the Earth
Orchestra: 3 fl (3rd dbl picc), 3 oboes (3rd dbl eng hn), 3 cl, 3 bssn, 4 hns, 3 trpt, 2 trmb, tba, 3 perc, timpani, hrp, strings (8:30)
- Piping the Earth
- Plain Song
Piano and electronics (12:00)
- Quatrain
Violin, viola, clarinet, bass clarinet (9:00)
- Respecting the First
Amplified String Quartet and electronic playback (14:55)
- Respecting the First (Amendment)
Instrumentation: String Orchestra and Electronics Duration: 14:30 Commission: San Jose Chamber Orchestra Premiere: 3/29/20 San José City Hall Rotunda San José , CA Program Notes: The first amendment, with its protections of speech, religion, the press, and the right of people to peaceably assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances, lies at…
- Rising on the Wings of Dawn
Rising on the Wings of Dawn, for solo violin, embodies the rising shape in its melodic and structural design.
- Rotunda
Computer music video/film (HD or DVD available for presentation) (15:00)
- Rotunda
One day, in late spring 2005, I was sitting in my office, upstairs in Old Cabell Hall, looking at the flow of life on the Lawn. I had often been delighted by the feeling of life on the Lawn, and by the shifting weather patterns above it. But this time, I suddenly saw the scene ...
- Round 3
Trombone (variable duration)
- Ruah
Chamber Orchestra: 1111/111/str (23:00)
- Run
Piano Quartet (8:25)
- Scirocco
Piano (3:05)
- Sea of Reeds
Amplified clarinet, with pvc tube extensions, mics, and effects procesor (such as digitech tsr-24); Max-MSP version in process (13:45)
- Secret Ground
Flute, clarinet, violin, cello (14:00)
- Selah
Female vocal quartet or women’s chorus + harp (15:00)
- Shapirit Y’fehfiah
SSA Chorus (3:00)
- Sic Transit
Percussionist (2 Singing Bowls of different sizes, 5 temple blocks, med. sus. cymbal, 2 timbales, snare, 2 bongos, fingercymbal) and CADI (Configurable Automated Drumming Machine), (finger cymbal, high and low woodblock, high and low cowbell, tambourine) (9:00)
- Singing Still
Flute (5:00)
- Singing the Blue Ridge
Mezzo, Baritone, Orchestra (2,2, 2,2,2,2,2,1,2, strings) electronics (CD) made from indigenous wild animal calls (14:00)
- Sister Thou Wast Mild and Lovely
Soprano and viola, also available for soprano and clarinet (2:00)
- Songs of War and Peace
SATB Chorus + piano (also check out version for SATB + chamber orchestra) (16:30)
- Spin
Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon, Violin, Viola Cello (6:00)
- Spring Tides
Amp. fl, cl, vln, vcl, pno, interactive electronics (Max-MSP5 or higher)(11:00)
- Storm
Amp. tenor sax and electronics (6:50)
- Stringing the Bow
String Orchestra (15:00)
- Study in Black
Flute and Percussion (4:00)
- Sursum Corda
Cello (8:43)
- Sweet Harmony
Soprano and Piano (1:30)
- Tape Music
Stereo electronics (7:14)
- Tape Music∞
Small cardboard box, blunt pencil or similar object, packing tape on a dispenser with teeth, and stereo electronics (5:00)
- Teruah
Shofar (Yemenite style, Eb pitch), 3 hrns, 2 trpts, 2 trmbs, timpani (9:00)
- The Best Angel in Heaven
Instrumentation: Unison Chorus or soloist & piano Duration: 3:00 Date of Composition: 2020 Program Note: I composed The Best Angel in Heaven in the cruel month of April, 2020, in memory of Sandra Santos-Vizcaino, the wonderful third-grade teacher at PS 9 in Brooklyn, NY who passed away from Covid-19. I did so because I was so touched by the memory page…
- The God of Glory
SATB Chorus (4:45)
- The Jabberwocky
TTBB (5:45)
- The Janus Quartet
String Quartet (12:00)
- The Jumblies
SSA + piano (5:51)
- The Passion of St. Cecilia
Solo piano, 2 fl (2nd dbl picc), 2 ob, 2 cl, 2 bssn, 2 tpts in C, 2 Hn, 2 trmb, 1 tba, 3 perc, strings (21:00)
- The Wendigo
SSA (14:00)
- Three Summers Heat
Mezzo or soprano and electronic playback (19:00)
- Time To Burn
Oboe and 2 percussion (2 bongos, 3 rototoms, tambourine, 2 timables, large and small brake drum, medium tamtam and bow)(2 bongos, claves, flexatone and bow, 1 maraca, slapstick, 5 temple blocks 2 tomtoms, vibraslap) (9:30)
- To Keep the Dark Away
Piano (11:00)
- Tongue Twisters
SSA Chorus and Piano (7:20)
- Tower of the Eight Winds
Violin and Piano (16:00)
- Trace Elements
2 Pianos & 2 Percussion (11:00)
- Tree Music
Interactive Electronics, Wireless Camera (variable duration)
- unter soreles vigele
Instrumentation: Mezzo and piano Duration: 4:00 Commission: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Premiere Performance: 6/30/2020 Evolution Program, Facebook & Youtube Presented by YIVO, Center for Jewish History, NYC Program Note: When Alex Weisser, Program Director of YIVO (Institute for Jewish Research) in New York, approached me about commissioning a song that would take one of…
- Vayter un Vayter
Bass (or Bass-baritone), clarinet, cello, piano (15:45)
- View from Mt. Nebo
Piano Trio (14:30)
- Water Ways
Electronic playback (1:00)
- Watershed
Instrumentation: Sop. Sax.. Trpt., Trmb, Vln, Vla, Vc, Perc, electronics Duration: 15:00 Commission: Michigan Technological University in collaboration with the Great Lakes Research Center Premiere: 10/2021 Note: Image credit: NASA/JSC Program Note: The Great Lakes, formed from receding glaciers, and holding 20+% of the volume of the world’s surface fresh water, provide habitat for all manner of flora…
- We Bring You Peace
SATB (2:00)
- We Hold These Truths
Chorus, brass quintet and timpani (15:00)
- Wedding Song
Soprano and english horn (or alto flute, or clarinet, or viola) (5:00)
- Werther
Flute (dbl picc), clarinet, violin, cello, piano (8:20)
- When the Moon of Wildflowers is Full
Flute and cello (3:30)
- Why the Caged Bird Sings
SATB Chorus + Piano (4:45)
- Widdershins
Piano (8:30)
- Wind Songs
Wind Quintet (12:00)
- Zipper Music
2 amplified zipper players with headphones for click track, Electronics performer for MIDI controlle with computer running MaxMSP, also mixer, stereo playback system