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Chamber Orchestra Vocal Opera Keyboard Soundtrack ChamberOn the Death of Our Young
Cello and piano | 15 minutes | 2013
Shifting Spirits
Violin and cello | 10 minutes | 2010
Gently Flowing
Violin and piano | 16 minutes | 2010
Dirge
Brass ensemble (4.2.3.1) | 7 minutes | 2010
Lament Amid Silence
Solo viola, consort of six violas, piano | 54 minutes | 2009
Lament With Ghosts
Solo viola with consort of six violas | 17 minutes | 2009
Ghosts
Six violas | 12 minutes | 2009
Lament
Solo viola or solo cello | 10 minutes | 2009
Montecito Variation
Solo violin | 4 minutes | 2009
Tapestry
Horn, violin, piano | 17 minutes | 1998
Mosaic in Two Panels
String quartet | 20 minutes | 1997
Veranderungen
Violin and piano | 15 minutes | 1995
Transience
Oboe and percussion | 10 minutes | 1994
Echoes From The Holocaust
Oboe, viola, and piano | 18 minutes | 1993
Nexus
Flute and piano | 10 minutes | 1993
Mountains And Rivers Trio
Violin, cello, and piano | 16 minutes | 1990
Four Fantasy Pieces
Flute and piano | 9 minutes | 1987
OrchestraTwo Songs from Twelfth Night
Baritone, chamber orchestra2-2-2-2; 2-0-0-0; harp; perc; strings
7 minutes
2013
Surging Seas
String orchestra (5.4.3.2.1)19 minutes
2012
Aviv: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
2-2-0-2; 0-2-0-0; strings20 minutes
2009
Janfare
3-2-2-2; 2-2-0-0; timp, perc; strings4 minutes
2007
Elegy for Orchestra – In Memoriam Otto Leuning
2-0-2-2; 4-2-3-1; timp, perc; strings7 minutes
1997
Mosaic in Two Panels
String orchestra20 minutes
1992/97
Festive Overture
3-3-3-3; 4-3-3-1; timp, perc(1-2); strings9 minutes
1996
Triptych for Orchestra
3-2-3-3; 4-2-3-1; timp, perc(3), hp(2); strings18 minutes
1980 Vocal
Two Songs From Twelfth Night
Baritone and pianoOrchestral version available
7 minutes
2013
An Empty Boat, Floating Adrift: Five Poems of Tu Fu
Contralto, piano, percussion15 minutes
2007
Song of Loving Kindness
Solo voice with or without audienceSuitable for children’s voices
8 minutes
2000
Aria From Mountains and Rivers
Soprano and piano5 minutes
1993
Five Ecstatic Poems of Kabir
Contralto or soprano and chamber ensemble:Flute, clarinet, percussion(1-2), piano
18 minutes
1988
Il Paradiso Terrestre
Soprano and piano5 minutes
1988
Four poems of Linda Pastan
Soprano and chamber ensemble:Flute, viola, bass, percussion(1-2), piano
14 minutes
1987
Demeter’s Scena from Mysteries of Eleusis
Soprano and piano11 minutes
1986
Eight Japanese Poems
Soprano or tenor and harp7 minutes
1984
Four Poems of Wallace Stevens
Soprano and chamber ensemble:Flute, cello, percussion(1-2), piano
12 minutes
1984
Ten Fragments of Pindar
Soprano and piano20 minutes
1983
Six Poems of William Carlos Williams
Tenor and chamber ensemble:Fl, cl, bcl; mand, gtr; perc(2); vln, vla, vlc, cb
19 minutes
1983
First Tragedy
Soprano, clarinet, piano10 minutes
1982 Opera
Outcast at the Gate
1 lead bass, 7 secondary roles, chorus119 minutes
In development
Twelfth Night
6 principal roles, 5 secondary roles, small chorus2-1-2-2; 2-0-0-0; timp, perc; pf, hrp; strings
120 minutes
2003
Mysteries of Eleusis
2 males, 5 females, chorus1-1-1-1; 2-1-1-1; timp, 3 perc; pf; strings
75 minutes
1986 Keyboard
Solo piano unless otherwise noted.
Ti Sarani
Organ | 8 minutes | 2015
88 For Nick
3 minutes | 2013
Prelude to a Sonata
4 minutes | 2013
Variations On Empty Space
12 minutes | 2008
Variations on a Theme by Arnold Schoenberg
16 minutes | 1995
Fourteen Canonic Variations on J.S. Bach BWV 1087
Two pianos | 6 minutes | 1995
Four Meditations from Dogen
17 minutes | 1994
Four Elegies
15 minutes | 1980
SoundtrackOld Plum Mountain: The Berkeley Zen Center: Life Inside The Gates
Directed by Ed Herzog2011
Mountains and Rivers
In collaboration with Daniel PalkowskiCommissioned by Zen Mountain Monastery
1996
Flute and Alto Flute | 8 minutes |2015