Poems Set to Music

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"Walk With Me"  Commissioned for Cincinnati Conservatory of Music Festival, premiered by CCM Chorale. 1999, Bruce Rockwell, composer.

"A Letter for Emily Dickinson" Commissioned by Lawrence Conservatory, Appleton, WI, 2003.  Lori Laitman, composer. 

"Imbolc Chant." Commissioned by California State University, Long Beach, conducted by Jonathan Talberg, 2003.  John

Carnahan, composer. 

"Landing Under Water" and "I Cry." Commissioned by West Chester Poetry Conference, Art Song Competition, 2003, Stefania De Kennessey, composer.

"Sonnet 18" by Louise Labe. Commmissioned for Accolades, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2003, premiered by Lauren Flanigan.  Deborah Drattell, composer.

Opera

Part 1   "Marina:  A Captive Spirit," Music by Deborah Drattell, Directed by Anne Bogart. American Opera Projects, Premiered May 2003

Review by Alan Kozzin, The New York Times, May 6, 2003

Hymn

"Our Mother God You Make the Earth"   Commissioned for New Hymn Texts, Union Theological Seminary, 1998.  Music by Arthur Clyde.

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