Composing an American Life
Orchestral
The Atmosphere as a Fluid System 1992
Solo flute and chamber orchestra
- Solo flute, chamber orchestra: 1,1,1,1/1,0,0,0/timp/3 perc*/pno/str.
Choral
And Sparrows Everywhere 1981
Three songs for unaccompanied mixed voices
- Text Keith Gunderson
- SATB a cappella chorus
Instrumental
Black Birds, Red Hills 1996
A Portrait of Six Paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe
- Viola, clarinet, piano
Instrumental
Black Roller 1981
- Viola (featured), flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, violin, cello, piano
Orchestral
Concerto: Cold, Silent Snow 1989
- Solo flute, solo harp, chamber orchestra: 2d1,2,2,2/4 hrn/timp/2 perc*/str.
Instrumental
DDT 2014
- Text Morse Code (air, h2o, bird, insect, wonder, ah, human, drill baby drill, stop)
- Percussion*
Instrumental
Downwind of Roses in Maine 2009
- Flute, clarinet, mallet percussion (marimba, vibes, orchestra bells)
Orchestral
Earth 2015
Holst Trope
- Full orchestra: 2d1,2,2-cor ang,2,bs cl, 2, contrabsn/4-3-3-1/timp/2 perc*/pno/hp/str.
Choral
In a Winter Garden 1982
- Librettist Patricia Hampl
- Soprano and tenor solo, SATB chorus with solos, chamber orchestra
Choral
Missa Gaia: Mass for the Earth 1992
- Text The Bible, Joy Harjo and Maurice Kenny, Meister Eckhart, Chinook Psalter, M.K. Dean, Wendell Berry & Gerard Manley Hopkins
- SATB chorus, SSA chorus (opt.), oboe, percussion*, string quartet, 4-hand piano
Vocal
Raspberry Island Dreaming 2002
Mezzo-soprano and piano
- Poets Patricia Hampl & Joyce Sutphen
- Mezzo-soprano, piano
Vocal
Raspberry Island Dreaming 2002
Mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra
- Poets Patricia Hampl & Joyce Sutphen
- Mezzo-soprano, chamber orchestra: 2,2,2,2,/1,1,0,0,/timp/perc*/hp/str.
ChoralOrchestral
Song Dances to the Light 1994
- Text Texts by young people
- SA chorus, speaker, Orff instrumentarium*, full orchestra: 2d1,2,2,2/2,2,2+bs tmbn,1/timp/2 perc**/hp/str.
Orchestral
Still Life With Violin 2000
- Solo violin, full orchestra: picc,2,2,2,2/4.3.3.1/timp/2 perc*/str.
Orchestral
Symphony: Water Music 1985
Symphony no. 1
- Full orchestra: picc,2,2,2,bs cl,3/4/3/3/1/timp/3 perc*/pno,cel/hp/str.
Choral
Three Summer Scenes 1988
- Text William Carlos Williams, Lloyd Frankenburg & Maurice Lindsay
- SATB chorus, optional women's chorus, orchestra: picc,2,2,2,2/4,3,3,1/2 perc/hp/str.
