Year

Name

 

Description

2002 Viñetas Flamencas, for tenor, wind-quintet and piano  

Text by Federico García Lorca.  In Spanish.
Commissioned by Citywinds. Premiered June 7, 2002.  Watch Viñetas Flamencas


2000 Seven Nocturnes, for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra   Text by Odysseus Elytis.  In Greek.
Commissioned by Marie Bafus. Premiered April 30, 2000. Listen to Nocturne 3

1998 The Highwayman, for soprano and string quartet   On the poem by Alfred Noyes. Commissioned by Cheryl Cain. Premiered April 18, 1998

1996 The Goddess of Parking and Traffic, for timpani, vibraphone, xylophone, and other percussion (five players)   Duration: 8'
Listen to Goddess

1995 Mozambique, for two horns and tuba.  Also arranged for three horns and tuba.  See Brass   Commissioned and premiered by The Heavy Metal Trio
Duration: 5'

1993 Bestiary, for soprano, horn, clarinet and piano   Listen to Landcrab (Margaret Atwood)
Listen to Hail to thee, blithe owl (Ring Lardner)
Listen to The Truro Bear (Mary Oliver)
Listen to Penguins in the Home (Helen Bevington)
Listen to Cricket (orig. Splinter) (Carl Sandburg)
Listen to The Axolotl (David McCord)
Commissioned by the Beaumont Ensemble. 1993.

1993 Out of Silence, for baritone, horn, clarinet and four cellos   Commissioned by the San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble, for the Conservatory's 75th anniversary. Text by J. Gallegos.
Premiered by the New Music Ensemble April 22, 1993.
Duration: 15'

1992 A Honky in Havana (1983, revised) for jazz ensemble   Premiered by the composer March, 1983. Duration: 12'

1987 The Beauty of Things for bells, percussion, flute and strings   A tone-poem on Robinson Jeffers' poem of the same name.
Commissioned by the Conservatory New Music Ensemble, Joan Gallegos, Director.
Premiered for American Music Week, November, 1987.
Duration: 10'.

1986 Annettes-Lieder, for soprano, cello and piano   Text by Annette von Droste-Hulshoff (1797-1848).  In German.
Im Grase (In the Meadow)
Am Turme ( On the Tower)
Der Weiher (The Pond)
Commissioned by Mimi Ruiz, and premiered by her in 1986. Duration: 15'

1984 Quatre Voyages, for harp and flute   1. En Village
2. Sur la Fleuve
3. L'Oiseaux de la Nuit
4. Le Souvenir
Duration: 15'

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