CHORAL & SOLO VOCAL WITH ORCHESTRA

Alleluia, the Mother Sings (2014)
[Poem by John Addington Symonds]
Scoring: SATB & orchestra
Commissioned: The Crane School of Music
Premiere: The Crane Chorus & Orchestra; Jeff Francom, conductor, Potsdam, NY December 2014
Duration: 7’
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All Through the Night [Welsh Folk Song] (2014)
Scoring: SATB, solo harp & string orchestra
Commissioned: The Crane School of Music
Premiere: The Crane Chorus & Orchestra; Jeff Francom, conductor, Potsdam, NY December 2014
Duration: 3’30”
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Away to the Skies (2015) [5 shape note hymns]
1. The lands that long in darkness lay
2. In Bethlehem city, in Judah it was
3. While shepherds watched their flocks by night
4. White: When marshal’d on the nightly plain
5. Come away to the skies
Scoring: SATB, soprano solo, solo flute & string orchestra
Commissioned: Vivian Green
Premiere: The Waimea [HI] Community Chorus & Orchestra; Barbara Kopra, conductor, December 2015
Duration: 13’
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Lacrymae (2003) [Texts from Lamentations of Jeremiah]
1. Elegy 1: How doth the city sit solitary
2. Elegy 2: How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion
3. Elegy 3: Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us
Scoring: SATB, solo flute & string orchestra
Commissioned: The Bach Choir of Pittsburgh
Premiere: Frances Lapp Averitt, flute; The Bach Choir of Pittsburgh & strings; Brady Allred, conductor
Pittsburgh PA, October 2003
Duration: 14’30”
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Nocturne (2002) [Poems by Byron & Shelley]
1. Sun of the sleepless! melancholy star!
2. Music
3. As the moon’s soft splendor...
4. Ozymandias
5. Rough wind that moanest loud
6. Music, when soft voices die
7. So, we’ll go no more a-roving
Scoring: soprano solo, 3 (picc)-2-2-2-contra), 4-2-3-0, timp, 2 perc & strings
Commissioned: The Maryland Symphony Orchestra
Premiere: Tony Arnold, soprano; The Maryland Symphony Orchestra, Elizabeth Schulze, conductor
The Maryland Theatre, Hagerstown MD, March 2002
Duration: 30’
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A recording of this work is available in the Orchestra & Wind Ensemble list

St. Matthew Passion (1997/98; Rev. 2009)
Scoring: tenor, bass, soprano and 8 incidental soloists; SATB chorus, SSA chorus; orchestra: 3 fl (2 dbl. picc) - 2 ob - b cl - 2 bsn, org/pno/cel, 3 percussionists & strings
Commissioned: Consortium of 11 southeastern university choruses
Premiere: Randall Black, Evangelist; Scott Guinn, Jesus; Tina Stallard, soprano & 8 other soloists; Chorus & Orchestra from University of South Carolina & Cantus Singers (Shenandoah Conservatory); Larry Wyatt, conductor
Averyt Hall, Columbia SC - 7 March 2010
Southern Division Conference - ACDA Cannon Center (Memphis TN) - 11 March 2010
Duration: 120’
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (1983) [Poem by Wallace Stevens]
Scoring: soprano solo, SATB chorus & string orchestra
Commissioned: Winchester Musica Viva
Premiere: Donna Gullstrand, soprano; Winchester Music Viva & Richmond Sinfonia, William Averitt, conductor
Braddock Street UMC, Winchester VA, May 1983
Duration: ca. 15’
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Veni, Creator Spiritus (1994)
Scoring: soprano solo, SATB chorus, 2(picc)-2(E hn)-2-contra, 4-3-3-0, timp, perc, celesta & piano, harp & strings
Commissioned: Shippensburg Festival
Premiere: Anne Nispel, soprano; Shippensburg Festival Chorus & Orchestra, Blaine Shover, conductor
Memorial Auditorium, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg PA, July 1994
Duration: 19’
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