WORKS for VOICE
Collected New Art Songs
2018
35 minutes; for Mezzo Soprano and Piano.
A collection of art songs for mezzo with piano accompaniment. Featuring the poetry of: Sylvia Plath, Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, E. E. Cummings, Walt Whitman, and an original text by the composer. With a flair for neo-romantic familiarity and a spice of jazz harmonies and rhythms, these pieces can be performed in any combination or order.
Epitaph For Fire And Flower (text by Sylvia Plath)
I Am The Only Being (text by Emily Brontë)
If Thou Must Love Me (text by Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
The Lake (text by Edgar Allan Poe)
Possibility (text by the composer)
Somewhere I Have Never Travelled (text by E. E. Cummings)
Time To Come (text by Walt Whitman)
Premieres in 2018 by Meghan Dibble and 2019 by Carrie Hennessey.