Choral Works
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The Animals' Peace Carol
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| Composed |
1996
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| Duration |
3 min
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| Instrumentation |
Voices and piano (optional: harp)
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| Text |
Steve Heitzeg
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| First Performance |
Metropolitan Boys Choir; Bea Hasselmann, conductor,
Minneapolis, MN, 7 December 1997
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Blessed Are the Peacemakers
see orchestral works
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Come See the Child
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| Composed |
1979
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| Duration |
5 min
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| Instrumentation |
SATB chorus and piano
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| Text |
Steve Heitzeg
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| First Performance |
Gustavus Chamber Singers; Jon Romer, conductor,
Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN, 23 November 1980
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Elegy On Water
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| Composed |
2003
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| Duration |
6 min
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| Instrumentation |
SATB Chorus
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| Text |
Robert Bly: "Mourning Pablo Neruda"
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| Commissioned by |
The Dale Warland Singers
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| First Performance |
Dale Warland Singers, Dale Warland, conductor, St. Paul, MN, 24 April 2004
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Enduring Earth
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| Composed |
1989
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| Duration |
25 min
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| Instrumentation |
Mixed chorus, young people's chorus/fl, ob, e-flat asax, bsn/hn, trpt/2 perc, pf/rocks/leaves/tape
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| Text |
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Langston Hughes, Rachel Lindsay,
Gary Snyder, Sojourner Truth, Walt Whitman
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| First Performance |
Irvington Middle School Chorus and members of the
High School Concert Wind Ensemble;
John Nurmi, conductor; Town Hall Theater, Irvington, NY; 31 May 1990
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From War to Peace Song
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| Composed |
2005
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| Duration |
5 min
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| Instrumentation |
Voices and piano
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| Text |
The Universal Peace Prayer
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| Commissioned By |
Marg Wunder, in remembrance of the 60th Anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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| First Performance |
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Green Invocations
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| Composed |
1999
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| Duration |
17 min
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| Instrumentation |
Chorus and percussion
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| Text |
Thich Nhat Hanh, Joy Harjo, Pablo Neruda
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| Commissioned by |
Chanticleer
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| First Performance |
The Desert Chorale; John Kennedy, conductor; Santa Fe, New Mexico, 28 July 2005
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The Heart is Blessed
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| Composed |
1982
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| Duration |
3 min
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| Instrumentation |
SATB chorus a cappella
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| Text |
Anonymous
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| First Performance |
St. Michael's Church Choir;
St. Michael's Lutheran Church, Roseville, MN, 14 March 1984
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The Hollow Men
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| Composed |
1984
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| Duration |
15 min
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| Instrumentation |
Soprano, SATB chorus/fl, cl/ 2 perc, pf/vln, vnc
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| Text |
T.S. Eliot
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Justice Starts in Your Heart
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| Composed |
2000
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| Duration |
5 min
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| Instrumentation |
Voices and piano
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| Text |
Steve Heitzeg
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| Commissioned by |
Joanna Cortright
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| First Performance |
Linwood A+ School Choirs; Kim Kroeck, conductor;
Saint Paul, MN, April 2001
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Leaf Songs
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| Composed |
1995
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| Duration |
12 min
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| Instrumentation |
SATB chorus, piano and percussion
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| Text |
Wendell Berry
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| Commissioned by |
Barbara J. McKinnon
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| First Performance |
West Virginia Wesleyan College Concert Chorale;
Larry Parsons, conductor; Buckhannon, WV, 13 October 1995
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Let the Earth Bring Forth the Green Herb
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| Composed |
1993
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| Duration |
3 min
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| Instrumentation |
SATB chorus a cappella
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| Text |
The Bible, Genesis 1:11
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| First Performance |
University of Saint Thomas Liturgical Choir; Robert Strusinski, conductor,
University of Saint Thomas, Saint Paul, MN, 10 December 1993
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Litanies For The Living
see orchestral works
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little tree
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| Composed |
1990
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| Duration |
7 min
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| Instrumentation |
SATB chorus and harp
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| Text |
e.e. cummings
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| First Performance |
Dale Warland Singers and Kathy Kienzle, harp;
Dale Warland, conductor, Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN, 20 December 1990
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May the World Sleep in Peace
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| Composed |
1996
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| Duration |
5 min
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| Instrumentation |
SATB chorus and piano
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| Text |
Steve Heitzeg
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| Commissioned by |
Angelica Cantanti
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| First Performance |
Angelica Cantanti; James Newton Hawthorne, conductor;
Bloomington, MN, 15 December 1996
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The Nine Gifts
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| Composed |
1998
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| Duration |
4 min
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| Instrumentation |
Chorus and Tibetan prayer chimes
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| Text |
Kevin Crossley-Holland
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| First Performance |
Chanticleer; Craig Hella Johnson, conductor;
Columbus, OH, 28 November 1998
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The Nobel Symphony
see orchestral works
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O, Colored Earth
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| Composed |
1993
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| Duration |
5 min
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| Instrumentation |
Voices and piano
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| Text |
Steve Heitzeg
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| First Performance |
House of Hope Children's Choir and
members of the University of Saint Thomas Earth Ensemble;
Elizabeth Shepley, conductor;
University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, MN, 13 April 1994
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On This Night of Such Great Wonder
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| Composed |
1982
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| Duration |
3 min
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| Instrumentation |
SA and piano
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| Text |
Steve Heitzeg
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| First Performance |
St. James Church Choir;
St. James Lutheran Church, Burnsville Minnesota
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Prairie Hymn
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| Composed |
1994
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| Duration |
3 min
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| Instrumentation |
SATB chorus and piano (optional: organ)
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| Text |
Steve Heitzeg
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| Commissioned by |
The Prairie Church Choir
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| First Performance |
Prairie Church Choir; Johnson, conductor,
Eden Prairie, MN, 23 April 1995
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Reflections (After Thoreau)
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| Composed |
1988
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| Duration |
6 min
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| Instrumentation |
SATB chorus / 2 fl / pf
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| Text |
Henry David Thoreau
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| First Performance |
Nicollet High School Concert Choir;
Michael Coyle, conductor, Nicollet, MN, 3 June 1988
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Songs of the Soil
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| Composed |
1990
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| Duration |
20 min
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| Instrumentation |
Soprano, mixed chorus, women's chorus/ 2 perc, pf
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| Text |
Heitzeg, Sandburg, Dakota and German words
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| First Performance |
New Ulm High School Chorus and Choralaires;
Al Hawkins, conductor, New Ulm, MN, 26 March 1991
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Swords into Plowshares (Chants for Justice)
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| Composed |
1998
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| Duration |
7 min
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| Instrumentation |
Childrens choir and percussion
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| Text |
Jane Addams, Mohandas Gandhi, Isaiah 2:4, Margaret Mead,
Mother Teresa, Article I from United Nations Declaration of Human Rights
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| First Performance |
Metropolitan Boys Choir; Bea Hasselmann, conductor,
Saint Paul, MN, 30 April 1998
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Tremulus Mundi
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| Composed |
1988
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| Duration |
30 min
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| Instrumentation |
Soprano, Baritone, SATB chorus/ 2 perc, pf/str
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| Text |
W.H. Auden, Samuel Beckett, W.B. Yeats
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| First Performance |
University of Minnesota Chamber Singers;
Thomas Lancaster, conductor,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 12 March 1989
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What the River Says
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| Composed |
1999
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| Duration |
15 min
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| Instrumentation |
SATB chorus, piano and percussion
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| Text |
Alla Renee Bozarth, Steve Heitzeg, William Stafford
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| Commissioned by |
The Grand Forks Master Chorale through a Continental Harmony Grant
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| First Performance |
Grand Forks Master Chorale; James Rodde, conductor,
Grand Forks, ND, 27 February 2000
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The World is Tired
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| Composed |
1989
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| Duration |
4 min
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| Instrumentation |
Mixed chorus, piano, guitar and autoharp
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| Text |
Steve Heitzeg
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| First Performance |
South Central High School Choirs; Linda Hill, conductor; Kiester, MN,
1 May 1989
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You Can Be Found
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Title song from rock opera P.S.
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| Composed |
1978
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| Duration |
3 min
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| Instrumentation |
SA and piano
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| Text |
Steve Heitzeg
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| First Performance |
Junior High Festival Chorus; Jon Romer, conductor,
Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN, 15 May 1981
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