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Songs & Cycles | ||
The Coming of Light | ||
| Composed | 1982 | |
| Duration | 10 min | |
| Instrumentation | Mezzo-soprano and piano | |
| Text | Mark Strand | |
| First Performance | Judy Kuritzky, mezzo-soprano; Thomas Bartsch, piano; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 4 November 1982 | |
The Dirty Hand | ||
| Composed | 1985 | |
| Duration | 10 min | |
| Instrumentation | Baritone and piano | |
| Text | Mark Strand | |
| First Performance | Lawrence Weller, baritone; Karol Sue Reddington, piano; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 8 February 1987 | |
Hurt Not The Earth | ||
| Composed | 3 min | |
| Duration | 1993 | |
| Instrumentation | Voice and piano | |
| Text | The Bible, Revelation 7:3 | |
| First Performance | Lisa Keitel, mezzo-soprano; Rick Yramategui, piano; First Congregational Church of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 27 June 1993 | |
Is Everybody Else Alright? | ||
| Composed | 2004 | |
| Duration | 2 min | |
| Instrumentation | High voice and piano | |
| Text | Aeschylus, Robert F. Kennedy's last words | |
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istimbe | ||
| Composed | 1989 | |
| Duration | 4 min | |
| Instrumentation | Mezzo-soprano, rattle and piano | |
| Text | The Dakota word for "sleep" | |
| First Performance | Sara McKay, mezzo-soprano; John McKay, piano; United Nations Day Concert, Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN, 23 October 1989 | |
Johnny Appleseed is Dreaming | ||
| Composed | 1999 | |
| Duration | 7 min 30 sec | |
| Instrumentation | High voice, piano, toy piano and percussion | |
| Text | Steve Heitzeg | |
| First Performance | Maria Jette, soprano; Steve Heitzeg, piano/percussion, Saint Peter, MN, 25 September 1999 | |
Lavender is my Contentment | ||
| Composed | 2004 | |
| Duration | 5 min 30 sec | |
| Instrumentation | High Voice and Piano | |
| Text | 3 poems by Hildur Wederquist Lovas | |
| Commissioned by | Hildur Wederquist Lovas' family in honor of her 90th birthday | |
| First Performance | Dan Dressen, tenor; Philip Brunelle, piano; Adren Hills, MN, 11 December 2004 | |
Loveblessing | ||
| Composed | 2004 | |
| Duration | 3 min | |
| Instrumentation | High voice and piano | |
| Text | I Corinthians 13: 4-7, The Bible | |
| Commissioned by | Jim and Barbara Willis | |
| First Performance | Mele Willis, voice; Julian Ward, piano; Plymouth, MN 31 July 2004 | |
O, Living Always, Always Dying | ||
| Composed | 1984 | |
| Duration | 3 min | |
| Instrumentation | Voice | |
| Text | Walt Whitman | |
| First Performance | Heather Dick, soprano; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 8 November 1984 | |
Song for Everyone (There are No Outsiders)from Nobel Symphony | ||
| Composed | 2004 | |
| Duration | 3 min | |
| Instrumentation | Mixed Chorus (SATB) and piano (optional: organ) | |
| Text | Desmond Tutu | |
| Commissioned by | Philip Brunelle | |
| First Performance | Plymouth Congregational Church Choir, Philip Brunelle, conductor, Minneapolis, MN, 22 May 2005 | |
| Also available for | Children's Choir and piano (optional: organ) | |
Songs of the Trees | ||
| Composed | 1983 | |
| Duration | 10 min | |
| Instrumentation | Mezzo-soprano and piano | |
| Text | e.e. cummings, Franz Kafka | |
| First Performance | Judy Kuritzky, mezzo-soprano; Thomas Bartsch, piano; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2 February 1984 | |
Three Graces for Hildur | ||
| Composed | 1997 | |
| Duration | 6 min | |
| Instrumentation | Soprano and piano | |
| Text | Emily Dickinson | |
| Commissioned by | Linda and Jack Hoeschler | |
| First Performance | Maria Jette, soprano; Tom Linker, piano, Saint Paul, MN, 1 March 1998 | |
Webassin(in Ojibwe, "I am carried away by the wind') | ||
| Composed | 1993 | |
| Duration | 4 min | |
| Instrumentation | Voice and cello | |
| Text | Steve Heitzeg | |
| First Performance | Naomi Karstad, soprano; Anna Clift, cello, Wayzata Community Church, Wayzata, MN, 19 September 1993 | |
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