PUSS 'N BOOTS
A Ballet
Commissioned and performed by The Lancaster Music Festival
Choreographer: Melinda Baker
2007 Special Anniversary Performance
Lancaster Music Festival, July 22
www.lanfest.org
2008 Performance
The Festival at Sandpoint, Idaho, August 10
www.festivalatsandpoint.com
COLLOQUY
A Sonata for viola and piano
On CD Colloquy
PASSAGES
A Clarinet Concerto
Originally commissioned and performed by The Lancaster Festival Orchestra
On CD Colloquy
MY HEART'S FRIEND
An orchestral setting of four poems for soprano and baritone
On CD Colloquy
SONG OF MOSES
An a capella choral work
On CD Colloquy
ACCORDION SAMBA
A Chamber Work for Accordion, Bassoon, Cello and Scat Vocalist
Commissioned by The American Accordionists Society
PIED PIPER
An Orchestral work
Commissioned and performed by Tales and Scales
HASKALAH
An Orchestral Work
Commissioned and performed by The Columbus Symphony
Gary Sheldon, Conductor
WOODWIND TRIO
For Flute, Oboe and Bassoon
SONATA FOR CLARINET AND CELLO
Commissioned and performed by Robert King
CONCERTINA FOR HORN
Composed for Brooks Tillotson
Commissioned by Emanuel Vardi
THE BASSOON AND TEN OTHERS
A Chamber Concerto for Arthur Weisberg
BENJAMIN
A Brass quartet
TEDDY
An Operatic Fable
A bear travels to the big city on a mission to save the forest
Originally Commissioned by The Actor's Studio, NYC
Developed with Encompass New Opera Theatre
Nancy Rhodes, Director
Libretto: Herb Schapiro
MORDECAI
An Opera
Based on a true story of the Nazi occupation of Poland
Premiered at The Kosciushko Foundation, New York
Libretto: Robert Reinhold
WANING POWERS
An Opera
A diva loses her voice at the peak of her career
Libretto: Gerald Walker
ANTHEM
For Soprano, Piano and Violin
Poem by: Ross Yockey
CELEBRATION
A contemporary setting of the Traditional Jewish Friday Night Service
For Cantor solo, Chorus and Orchestra
Commissioned by Roger Stevens for The Kennedy Center
AN AMERICAN SELICHOT
For Chamber Orchestra, Chorus and Cantor Soloist (in Hebrew)
Commissioned and first performed by Cantor Jack Chomsky
SONG OF SONGS
An Oratorio
For Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra
Based on the Biblical Songs of Solomon
Commissioned and performed by Cantor Nate Lam - Los Angeles, CA