“Your songs are wonderful - strong, expressive . . . there are so many gems here, truly . . . "
- Susan Narucki, renowned American soprano and educator

Compositions

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Compositions with an * are available through SMD .
Other titles please Contact the composer.

SONGS FOR VOICE AND PIANO*
Songs are available through Subito Music.
Please visit SMD to order and for more information.

Snowstorm in the Midwest - poem by James Wright

Poem Composed in Sleep - poem by Lidian Emerson

Going - poem by Philip Larkin 

Insomnia - poem by Elizabeth Bishop

Autumn, 1964 - poem by John Betjeman

The Defective Record - poem by William Carlos Williams

Labrador - poem by William Carlos Williams

Garden Abstract - poem by Hart Crane

The Politician - poem by Spencer Appling

Sea Rose - poem by H.D.

Storm - poem by H.D.

To One Who Revisited an Old Garden - poem by Catherine Kirsopp

Memory of Summer Facing West - poem by W.S. Merwin

Autumnal - poem by James Wright

The Fields of November - poem by Mark Van Doren

The April Lovers - poem by Virginia Hamilton Adair


CHORAL WORKS

Featured
Cædmon's Hymn*

for Mixed Chorus SATB and organ - 9 minutes

The Revenge of Hamish

for Mixed Chorus SATB, piano, violin and bodhran - 19 minutes

Hail Lovely and Pure*

for Mixed Chorus SATB - 13 minutes

These Last Gifts*

for Mixed Chorus SATB - c.5 minutes

A Wood

for Mixed Chorus SATB and woodwind quintet - c.7 minutes

The Ballad of Don and Dan

for Mixed Chorus SATB, piano, electric guitar, electric bass and drums - c. 11 minutes

Wolf Moon

for Mixed Chorus SATB and piano - c.3 minutes 30 seconds

Collect Pond

for Mixed Chorus SATB - c.4 minutes 30 seconds

Dark Clouds Bring Waters

for Mixed Chorus SATB - c.3 minutes

Five Sonnets for Men's Voices

for Men's Voices TTB - c.9 minutes 45 seconds

Good Speaking — A Benediction Song

for Mixed Chorus SATB - c.5 minutes

Song for the Rainy Season

for Mixed Chorus SATB and piano - c.7 minutes

In That Part of the Young Year

for Mixed Chorus SATB - c.3 minutes

SOLO INSTRUMENTAL AND
CHAMBER WORKS

Featured
Five for Piano*

five pieces for piano solo - 10 minutes

Songs for the Wind

A cycle of seven songs for soprano, tenor, piano, oboe, 'cello, and percussion - 21 minutes

Russ's Dance

for solo hammered dulcimer; also a version for solo piano - 4 minutes

Three Larkin Songs - poems by Philip Larkin

for soprano, marimba, clarinet, trombone, baritone saxophone, and double bass - 7 minutes

Batting Practice

Four pieces for clarinet, violin, 'cello, and piano - 10 minutes

Vines

for cello and piano - 3 minutes

MISCELLANEOUS WORKS

Call to Art

A multi-media work for taped chorus in collaboration with the artists Komar & Melamid.

Lengths determined by performance

INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITIONS FOR JAZZ ENSEMBLE

Later Than Now 

Tee Off Time

Killer Dilettante

Alfresco Blues 

Day One 

Flat as a Pancake 

The House by the Side of the Road 

Some of Thems

Bum's Rush 

Once Again 

Love Cement 

Rafe Botts


SONGS FOR VOICE AND JAZZ ENSEMBLE

Little Star - lyrics by W. McClelland

Whatever's On - lyrics by Ian Frazier

Bristlecone Pine - lyrics by Ian Frazier

She Doesn't Work There Anymore - lyrics by W. McClelland

Soaker - lyrics by Thomas McClelland

All That I Love is You - lyrics by Thomas McClelland

Fear's in Love - lyrics by Thomas McClelland

I Don't Feel So Hot - lyrics by Thomas McClelland

Fortune Cookie Factory - lyrics by Thomas McClelland

She'd Never Break My Heart - lyrics by Thomas McClelland

I Like to Drink - lyrics by Thomas McClelland

Let's Do - lyrics by Thomas McClelland