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Cast in Light  (Nancy Stevenson) for soprano, flute, harp, and    percussion.     1991. 4’

The Edge of My Affection: Five Poems by Richard Brautigan  for high or medium voice and wind quintet. 1992. 14’
      1. Have You Ever Felt like a Wounded Cow
      2. My Nose Is Growing Old
      3. You Will Have Unreal Recollections of Me
      4. Karma Repair Kit: Items 1-4
      5. Your Catfish Friend

Vermont Easter  (Nancy Stevenson) four landscapes for lyric    baritone, string quartet, and percussion. 1996. 19’
      1. Vermont Easter
      2. Nightfall on Ithaka
      3. Death. St. Veran, Swiss Alps
      4. Epilog

Nightshade  (Brandon Colson) for soprano and hammered dulcimer.  1996   2’
   Premiere by University of Michigan student ensemble, 1996

Django Boy  (Sheilah Coleman) for voice and guitar. 1996. 3’
   Premiere by University of Michigan student ensemble, 1996

Scars  (Carmen Bugan) for mezzo soprano and piano. 1996.  2’
   Premiere by University of Michigan student ensemble, 1996

Flesh  (Ron Nyren) dramatic scene for soprano, alto, and piano. 1996. 4’
   Premiere by Jennifer Goltz, soprano and Ruth Christensen, alto, Ann Arbor, 1996

The Praising Word  (John Bennett)  for soprano and piano. 1999. 4’
   Commissioned and premiered by Anne Adams and Gabriela Lena Frank, Britton Recital Hall,
   Ann Arbor, 1999

Legacy  (Peter Aldgate)  dramatic scene for soprano, baritone, piano and organ. 2000.  4’
   Premiere by Tapestry New Opera Works Composer/Librettist Laboratory; Toronto, 2000

Jessie (Peter Austin), dramatic scene for soprano, mezzo-soprano and piano. 2000. 3’
   Premiere byTapestry New Opera Works Composer/Librettist Laboratory; Toronto, 2000

The Lord’s Prayer  for voice and piano. 2005.  2’
   Premiere and multiple performances at St. Aidan’s Episcopal, Ann Arbor, 2005

We Two Boys  (Walt Whitman), for tenor, baritone and piano, or men’s voices (TB) and piano. 2005.  3’
   Premiere by Randy Gilchrist, tenor, Jude Purcell, baritone, Joseph Palazzolo, piano; Detroit,          2005 & 2006

For the Bright-Eyed Ones  (Debbie Gilchrist), for solo voice, 2011. 3’
   Commissioned and premiered by Randy Gilchrist, Detroit, 2011


 

 
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