Chamber ensemble

Impressioni venexiane — Impressions of Venice — 35 min (string quartet; written at the request of the Quartetto d’Archi di Venezia) Sunrise over St. Mark’s (aerial view); song of the Serenissima; the Quadriga; reflection of flames on wet pavement (Piazza S. Marco); simbolo (over the entrance to the Chiesa di S. Maria Madalena); canzona popolare (“Venezia mia!”); napping on Attila’s throne (Torcello; Campo dei Mori (Palazzo Mastelli); the Ghetto; sunset on the banks of Lido (vespers from S. Giorgio/cantilena); reprise

Concerto for Oboe and String Chamber Orchestra with Harpsichord — 29 min (ob solo, 4 vln, vla, vc, cb, hpschd; for the International Venice Festival “Viva Vivaldi” at the Chiesa di S. Maria della Pietà on the Grand Canal in Venice)
May be performed with augmented string section.
2nd movement (“Largo”) available separately.

Red Dove of Libya — 22 min (fl, harp, cb, percussion; based on the story of the Temple of Venus at Erice in Sicily; spoken text fragments from Shakespeare; written for the Network for New Music, Philadelphia)

Prélude ericéen (fl solo)
Melodrama and Ayre (ens. & spoken voices)
Processional Dance (ens.)
Prélude ericéen available separately.

Tucson Scherzo — 9 min (fl, cl, vln, vcl, pno; for the Ensemble Ex Novo di Venezia)

Tucson Scherzo — 9 min (concertante version for fl solo, strings & hpschd; for the Alba Festival)

Sinfonia e fugato — 7 min (fl, vln, vla, vc, pno; a birthday party in baroque style for Scarlatti, Bach, Handel & Schütz)

Gloria (from Vespero Vermiglio) — 3 min (for 8 cellos, arr. for the Venice Cello Ensemble)

In the Dolomites —3 min (string quartet; for the Quartetto di Venezia, in anticipation
of their 30th anniversary)

Vocal

Poems from Paternina — 19 min (soprano & piano, for the Fiore-Cacioppo Duo; texts by C.H.O. Scaife, Shelley)

Ghosts of Old Desires
In memoriam
To a Connoisseur
Each available separately.

Sestinamento “Operistica” — 14 min (soprano & piano; text by Luigi Cerantola, composed at the request of the author and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura)

Franciscan Prayer — 9 min (bass-baritone & piano; text attr. St. Francis of Assisi)

Notturno elidiano — 8 min (version for piano & spoken voice; text by Claudio Saltarelli)

Due canti brevi su poesia di Claudio Saltarelli — 7 min (soprano & piano, for the Duo Alterno di Torino)

Foglie avanti San Savino
Evocazioni di gelo avanti San Savino

Sugnu sicilianu — 7 min (tenor & piano; text by Gaetano Lino)

Canto notturno — 5 min (soprano & piano, for the Fiore-Cacioppo Duo; text by Giacomo Leopardi)

Tre canzoni su poesia di Renzo Oliva — 13 min (soprano and piano)

io non sono più là
vipere d’ombra
alcune sere
un libro nero
mi chiedo

Arianna — 4 min (SATB chorus, a cappella, text by Luigi V. Cerantola; for Tian Hui Ng and theHaverford — Bryn Mawr College Chamber Singers)

O principessa — 3 min (soprano & piano, text by Luigi Cerantola)

Volgi, Beatrice — 3 min (soprano & piano, for performance sponsored by the IIC; text by Dante)

Volgi, Beatrice — 3min (for soprano & string quartet; adapted for Lyric Fest)

Mixed ensemble

Franciscan Prayer — 9 min (bass-baritone & piano, with trumpet & percussion obblig.; text attr. St. Francis of Assisi)

Alla primavera — madrigale virtuosa — 9 min (chorus SATB, soli SATB, piano, harpsichord, vln, vla, vcl, fl, cl, bsn; text by Giacomo Leopardi)

Large forces

Trilogia dantesca — 90 min (orchestra, chorus SATB, piano, supported by a Howard Foundation fellowship, funds from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and private donations); texts by Dante et al)

Vexilla (pno & orch)
Antiphon a cappella (altos)
Numina (pno, orch, chor)
Antiphon al eco accompagnato (sopranos & 2 fl, 2 ob, B-flat Cl, 2 bsn, Hn, Tpt in C)
Adfirmatio (pno, orch, chor)
Vexilla available separately as stand-alone concerto.
Numina available separately as stand-alone concerto with or without chorus
Numina available in alternate piano & chamber orchestra version (single ww/br).
Adfirmatio available separately as stand-alone concerto with chorus.

La Canzon della Veglia — 60 min (melodrama for orchestra, chorus SATB, soprano solo, actress and male dancer; libretto by Claudio Saltarelli — score in preparation; originally written for the Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana di Piacenza)

Sequenza del Vespero Vermiglio — 58 min (chorus SATB, soprano solo, organ concertante & percussion; libretto by Luigi Cerantola; a musical celebration commissioned privately by a Venetian family)*

Alto nel sole; Brilla più bello
Fantasia (organ solo — Veni Creator Spiritus)
Nitida l’aria; L’ultima nube (Pavana)
Ricercar (organ solo — sul nome Angelo Gobbo)
Gloria; Candido splende (Aria & chorus)
Erge i vessilli; La bella estate (Polonaise)
Consolatio (organ solo)
L’estate ha il fiore; Tutto illudente (Gavotta)
Onda; Esuli (Arioso)
Sfinge (organ solo)
Godi; Se tenzonò (Soggetto canonico imbattagliato; alla Siciliana)
Orma al chiaror; Accesso a paradisi (Madrigal & Aria)
Bevi; Nella tua pace (chorale prelude — Ut Queant Laxis)
Bello il volo; Angelo (choral fantasy — Missus est Gabriel Angelus)
Contemplatio: Occhio intatto (organ & chorus in recitation)

*also known as “Cantata concertante degli Angeli,” or “Cantata of the Angels”

Tuscan Folio — 21 min (commissioned by the Yale Symphony Orchestra on support from the Howard Foundation & AMC)

America: una preghiera
Capriccio leggendario e suoni del Palio
Sarbaggiu
1st & 3rd movements available separately.
2nd & 3rd movements available as ‘prelude & scherzo’ pairing.

Chamber ensemble

Womb of the Sacred Mountains — 1 hour, 51 min (string quartet); a cycle of four stringquartets inspired by the Navajo creation story

I. a distant voice calling — Níłch’i dine’é
II. Coyoteway —Mą’ iijí hatáál
III. Kinaaldá (TheRite of Changing Woman)
IV. Monsterslayer— Nayénĕzgạni

Monsterslayer — Nayénĕzgạni — 37 min (string quartet; commissioned by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society with support from the Pew Charitable Trusts for the Emerson String Quartet)

Exorcism
Cadenza
Dialogue
Scherzo
Dance of Celebration
Last in a cycle of four string quartets based on the Navajo creation story entitled Womb of the Sacred Mountains.

The Ancestors — 32 min (vln, vc, pno; commissioned for the Sartory Trio in residence at Duquesne University by artist Charles Stegeman Sr.)

Berceuse
Scherzo
Interlude
Scherzo
Barcarolle

a distant voice calling — Níłch’i dine’é — 27 min (string quartet; commissioned by the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music with the sponsorship of Linda and Stuart Nelson for the American String Quartet)

Fantasia
Ode
Scherzo
Finale: Rondo
First in the cycle Womb of the Sacred Mountains.

Kinaaldá (The Rite of Changing Woman) — 25 min (string quartet; written for the Borromeo Quartet)

Third in the cycle Womb of the Sacred Mountains.

Fantasy; Theme and Variations

Coyoteway — Mą’ iijí hatáál — 22 min (string quartet; written for the Moscow String Quartet at their request)

Emanations from the Underworld
Incantation
Hogan Dance
The Swallows’ Colloquy
Shawl Dance
Coyote’s Leap
Fire Dance
Fortyniner (Round Dance)
Second in the cycle Womb of the Sacred Mountains.

Wolf — 17 min (soprano, vc, pno; written for the Fiore-Cacioppo Duo and cellist David Geber, commissioned by the Samuel S. Fels Fund; text by Peter Blue Cloud)

Snake Dance – Coyóhim Katsina — 14 min (fl, vc, pno)

Tucson Scherzo — 9 min (see Italian focus section)

Red Bird (with Alejandro Cardona) — timing variable (guitar and variable obbligato instruments)

The Yellow Star (with Alejandro Cardona) — 3 min (fl, vcl, guitar)

Choral

Quattro canti indigeni nordamericani — 9 min (SATB, SB soli)

Zuñi Lullaby
Taos Moonlight Song
Creek-Cherokee Deer Conjuring Song
The Huron Carol (Quodlibet)

Orchestral

Lenape Refrains — 32 min (for 19 strings, clarinet, and Native American voice and percussion; commissioned by the Philadelphia Classical Symphony through the Philadelphia Music Project/Pew Trusts & NEA

When the Orchard Dances Ceased — 13 min (str 6,5,4,3,2, single ww/br, hp, pno, timp + 2 perc, Native American voice & percussion; commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra for its Zankel Hall “Orchestra Underground” series)

Scenes from Indian Country — 19 min (movement 1 commissioned jointly by the Chicago Symphony and Milwaukee Symphony; movements 2 and 3 commissioned by the Chamber Orchestra of Bryn Mawr)

Invocation and Dance of the Mountain Gods
Raven Lance
Crying for Justice
Each available separately.

Music of multiple foci

Also available:

Largo in E — 9 min (version for organ)

Instrumental

Faust Narrative No. 1 (after Busoni) — 18 min (vln, pno)

Pharaonic Suite —14 min (brass quintet: 2 trp, hn, tbn, tba; for Graham Ashton & the New York Chamber Brass)

I. Bustin’ Cheops
II. Utsphea (Secret Chamber)
III. Ladder to the Sun (Falcon Dance)

Notturno & Danse joyeuse — 10 min (ob, pno; originated as a reading commission for the National Jazz Ensemble)

Largo in E — 9 min (version for 8 cellos; arr. for the Venice Cello Ensemble)

Largo in E — 9 min (2 vln, 2 vla, 2 vc — original version, written for a Kinhaven summer festival ensemble)

A Meeting of Souls — 8 min (strings 88553 and cembalo, commissioned by the Carmel Bach Festival,Paul Goodwin, music director)

Tritton Fanfare — 5 min (brass quintet — 2 tpt in C, hn, tbn, b-tbn/tba; commissioned by Haverford College for the Philadelphia Brassworks for the inauguration of the school’s 12th president)

Dea praeclara — 5 min (woodwind quintet — fl, ob, cl, hn, bsn)

of dark and bright — 4 min (solo hn; published by Boelke-Bomart/Mobart Music, Hillsdale, NY)

Cadenza for the C.P.E. Bach d minor Flute Concerto — 3 min (fl; commissioned by Jeanne Baxtresser, originally published in the Journal of the Victorian Flute Guild)

Neue Widmung (after Schumann) — 2 min (2 vc)

Mignon (after Schumann) — 2 min (hn, pno)

Vocal/choral

To A Child Dancing In The Wind — 25 min (soprano & pno version; text by William Butler Yeats)

Sieben Thiel Lieder — 22 min (bass-baritone & pno; texts by Friedrich Thiel)

Es stirbt in Menschen nie
Einmal nur dich zu berühren
Herbst voll Licht
Wasser, Luft und Schaum
Abends sind die Geister schwer
Der Spinne gleicht die Zeit
Daß ich denke, daß ich dichte
Wasser, Luft und Schaum available separately.

Notturno elidiano — 8 min (version for piano & spoken voice on Beethoven texts)

An die unsterbliche Geliebte — 6 min (bass-baritone & pno; text by Beethoven)

Revelation 21 — 13 min (treble choir, S solo, organ; commissioned by St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, for an AIDS memorial service)

An “Amen!” to Peace — 5 min (chorus SATB, soli SATB, org; dedicated to the victims of the Kent State shootings; commended by President Nixon)

Hymn of Affirmation aka Hymn to God’s Love — 1 min (chorus SATB, org)

Mixed

Linus — 12 min (alto, vln, vla, vc, pno; text by the composer)

Dialogue — 5 min (tbn, pno — tbn doubles as soprano; private commission)

Orchestral

To A Child Dancing In The Wind (orchestral poem with soprano)— 25 min (text by William Butler Yeats; commissioned by the Bach Society Orchestra of Harvard University)

Largo in E — 9 min (version for strings and timpani with pno obblig.; requested by the Bach Society Orchestra)