setting of poem by Lawrence Bush (3’30”) May 8, 2006
for voice & piano; premiered by Helene Williams & composer
5/6/107 Queens College; 5/10/07 Tamiment Library, NYU
Soprano with Piano
Sonnetina #15, op. 181A
setting of Shakespeare’s Sonnet #29:
“When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes”
for soprano & piano – for Helene [Williams]
premiered by her & composer, Court Street Music, 6/16/07
Cascadilla Falls, op. 182
for soprano & piano, text by A.R. Ammons,
to Helene Williams, who premiered it with the composer,
6/16/07, Court Street Music
Conspiritor Reality, op. 184
aka “Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been,”
part of a projected opera, Alger, based on the story of Alger Hiss.
libretto by Kim Rich; premiered in solo version
by Helene Williams & composer, Tamiment Library NYU 6/13/07
premiere of choral version 6/17/10 by members of
Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus & NY City Labor Chorus
at Local 802, viewable on YouTube at
Post Humus, op. 186 #10
for soprano & piano, text by Patti Tana
#10 from Long Island Songs for Seasoned Women, op. 186
Plot, The, op. 186 #9
for soprano & piano, text by Muriel Lilker
#9 from Long Island Songs for Seasoned Women, op. 186
Misplaced Memories, op. 186 #8
for soprano & piano, text by Margaret Dinzler Shaw
#8 from Long Island Songs for Seasoned Women, op. 186
What Is Sufficient, op. 186 #7
for soprano & piano, text by Pat Falk,
#7Â from Long Island Songs for Seasoned Women, op. 186
My Song, op. 186 #6
for soprano & piano, text by Lorraine Mund
#6 from Long Island Songs for Seasoned Women, op. 186
Double Nickels I & II, op. 186 #5
for soprano & piano, text by Lynn Green
#5 in Long Island Songs of Seasoned Women, op. 186
Wife of God II, The, op. 186 #3
for soprano & piano, text by Susan Astor,
#3 from Long Island Songs of Seasoned Women, op. 186
Eve’s Song, op. 186 #2
for soprano & piano, text by Sally ann Drucker,
#2 from Long Island Songs of Seasoned Women, op. 186
Naked Eye, The, op. 186 #1
for soprano & piano, text by Patti Tana,
#1 from Long Island Songs of Seasoned Women, op. 186
Long Island Songs of Seasoned Women, op. 186
song cycle for Helene, in memory of Susan Blake, Nov.-Dec.2007
includes 10 songs, #2-10 from the collection,
Songs of Seasoned Women, ed. Patti Tana, Quadrasoul, 2007.
Authors include Patti Tana (#1 & 10), Sally ann Drucker (#2),
Susan Astor (#3), Marcia McNair (#4), Lynn Green (#5),
Lorraine Mund (#6), Pat Falk (#7), Margaret Dinzler Shaw (#8),
Muriel Lilker (#9). Cycle premiered by Helene Williams
& composer, Court Street Music, 6/7/08.
Listen, op. 189
for soprano & piano, on text by Walt Whitman,
commissioned by Walt Whitman Project,
for Helene Williams, premiered by her & composer
at Queens College, 4/19/09
Prayer of St. Francis, op. 193
for SAB or Soprano Solo & Piano/Organ, or Organ Solo
for United Methodist Church Huntington/Cold Spring Harbor
to Rev. Warren Beaven, in memory of Dr. Sterrett P. Beaven 7/15/09
solo soprano version for Helene Williams,
premiered at LICA Concert at church 6/13/10
If (Rudyard Kipling), op. 194
for solo voice or SATB & Piano
to my Dad, for Helene, Faith & Charles (Aug. 2-12, 2009)
Six Israeli Children Songs (Bergstein, Harussi and Anon.)
by Avraham Sternklar for S pno 00:09:00 1949
Three Songs (poems by Emily Dickenson – “I’m Nobody, If I Could Stop One Heart From Breaking, Will There Really Be A Morning”)
by Herbert Rothgarber for S pno 00:04:00 2008
Song of Experience
by Dana Richardson for S pno 00:14:00 1991
Spellbound
by Dana Richardson for S pno 00:15:00 2004
A Liquor Never Brewed
by Dana Richardson for S pno 00:14:00 1996
Adonais
by Dana Richardson for S pno 00:18:00 1998
A Bestiary
by Frank Retzel for s pno 00:09:00 1985
Summer Songs
by Frank Retzel for s pno 00:20:00 1996
A PORTRAIT OF CHILDHOOD
by Julie Mandel for Sop. and Pno 00:04:14 2008
I SHALL NEVER FORGET
by Julie Mandel for Sop. and Pno 00:02:46 2008
BREAKFAST ALONE
by Julie Mandel for s pno 00:05:00 2005
The Amalfi Grotto
by Patricia W. King for pno S 00:02:50 1981
Song at Evening
by Patricia W. King for pno S 00:01:50 1981
All the Lovers You Ever Knew
by Patricia W. King for pno S 00:01:50 1981
A Hiroshima Lullaby
by Patricia W. King for pno S 00:02:40 1981
Give Me Your Hand
by Patricia W. King for pno S 00:01:32 1984
Mid-Autumn Moon Festival Remembering Sher Ying
by Patricia W. King for pno S 00:02:00 1985
Why
by Patricia W. King for pno S 00:01:50 1986
Sonnet to a Wave
by Patricia W. King for pno S 00:03:10 1986
I Never Knew
by Patricia W. King for pno S 00:02:04 1986
Return to Frankfurt
by Patricia W. King for pno S 00:03:00 1993
Leyla
by Patricia W. King for pno S 00:02:10 1993
Advice to a Neighbour Girl
by Patricia W. King for pno S 00:02:00 1993
The Subtle Ways
by Kenneth Henkel for s,pno 00:07:00 2006
3 Emily Dickinson Songs
by Charles Griffin for S PF 00:08:00 1991
LULLABY, WINDING PATH TO DREAMS
by Herbert A. Deutsch for Mz pno 00:04:00 2005
TWO EVENING REFLECTIONS
by Herbert A. Deutsch for S pno 00:05:00 2001
THREE SONGS FROM VISION OF ISAIAH
by Herbert A. Deutsch for Mz & pno 00:06:10 1968
A NOVEMBER MYSTERY
by Herbert A. Deutsch for Sp pno 00:04:30 2001
Five Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
by Allen Brings for S pno 00:11:00 2005
Tre Sonetti di Michelangelo Buonarroti
by Allen Brings for S pno 00:08:00 1975
Song
by Allen Brings for S pno 00:05:00 1956
A Cradle Song
by Allen Brings for S pno 00:02:00 1954