Vocal and Choral Works

Hymn to the Night (Part II)

My Hymn to the Night is a composition for mixed chorus, composed in 1984 based on the Longfellow poem of

Part I of this series discussed word painting in my musical setting of Shakespeare’s Sonnet XVIII — that is, how the

Shakespeare’s Sonnet XVIII (“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”) is one of the most famous poems in the English

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) wrote just one masterpiece, an epic novel titled À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of

My last two posts (Part 1 and Part 2) have been analyzing the relationship between the text and music in

I wrote the poem that became the text for my vocal work “I Have a Star” around 1983-1984, later setting

The text for my vocal composition “I Have a Star” originated as a poem I had written around 1983-1984, while

In 1984, I was directing a small amateur mixed chorus in Atlanta, Georgia. Wanting to take advantage of the opportunity

“Midway through life’s journey,” writes Dante at the beginning of the Inferno, “I found myself in a dark wood.” The