VOCAL MUSIC
Berceuse pour l’enfant Jésus
[Traditional French Carol] (2007)
Scoring: soprano, flute & harpsichord
Premiere: Donna Gullstrand, soprano; Frances Lapp Averitt, flute & Sue Marston Boyd, harpsichord
Braddock Street UMC, Winchester VA, December 2007
Duration: ca. 4’15”
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[Traditional French Carol] (2007)
Scoring: soprano, flute & harpsichord
Premiere: Donna Gullstrand, soprano; Frances Lapp Averitt, flute & Sue Marston Boyd, harpsichord
Braddock Street UMC, Winchester VA, December 2007
Duration: ca. 4’15”
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Chamber Music (1975) [Poems by James Joyce]
1. Strings in the Earth and Air
2. The Twilight Turns
3. At That Hour
Scoring: mezzo-soprano, flute & piano
Premiere: Marilyn Boyd DeReggi, soprano; Frances Lapp Averitt, flute & Sue Marston Boyd, piano
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC, November 1975
Duration: ca. 12’
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1. Strings in the Earth and Air
2. The Twilight Turns
3. At That Hour
Scoring: mezzo-soprano, flute & piano
Premiere: Marilyn Boyd DeReggi, soprano; Frances Lapp Averitt, flute & Sue Marston Boyd, piano
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC, November 1975
Duration: ca. 12’
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For John (1988) [Poems by Walter de la Mare]
1. Moonlight
2. Napoleon
3. Ariel
4. Rachel
5. Night
Scoring: soprano & piano
Commissioned: Virginia Music Teachers’ Association
Premiere: Donna Gullstrand, soprano & Sue Marston Boyd, piano
Ramada Convention Center, Virginia Beach VA, November 1988
Duration: ca. 12’
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1. Moonlight
2. Napoleon
3. Ariel
4. Rachel
5. Night
Scoring: soprano & piano
Commissioned: Virginia Music Teachers’ Association
Premiere: Donna Gullstrand, soprano & Sue Marston Boyd, piano
Ramada Convention Center, Virginia Beach VA, November 1988
Duration: ca. 12’
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Four Appalachian Folk Ballads (1990)
1. Come All Ye Fair and Pretty Damsels
2. The Nightingale
3. The Blind Man’s Lament
4. Arise! Arise!
Scoring: soprano, flute & harpsichord
Commissioned: Frances Lapp Averitt
Premiere: Frances Lapp Averitt, flute; Donna Gullstrand, soprano & Sue Marston Boyd, harpsichord
Johanniskirche, Schwäbish-Gmünd Germany, July 1990
Duration: ca. 11’
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1. Come All Ye Fair and Pretty Damsels
2. The Nightingale
3. The Blind Man’s Lament
4. Arise! Arise!
Scoring: soprano, flute & harpsichord
Commissioned: Frances Lapp Averitt
Premiere: Frances Lapp Averitt, flute; Donna Gullstrand, soprano & Sue Marston Boyd, harpsichord
Johanniskirche, Schwäbish-Gmünd Germany, July 1990
Duration: ca. 11’
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From These Honored Dead (2013)
1. Harriet Tubman
2. Hymn: On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand
3. Melville: The Portent
4. Interlude #1: A Call to Arms
5. Clara Barton
6. Melville: Shiloh - A Requiem
7. Hymn: Death, like an overflowing stream
8. Interlude #2: An Overflowing Stream
9. Harriet Beecher Stowe
10. Whitman: Dirge for Two Veterans
11. Interlude #3: Desolate Field
12. Hymn: O, were I like a feathered dove
Scoring: soprano, violin, viola, cello & piano
Commissioned: Texas Lutheran University
Premiere: Laurel Thomas, soprano and instrumentalists
TLU Women’s Choir, Douglas Boyer, conductorBraddock
Ayers Recital Hall, TLU, April, 2015
Duration: 47’
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1. Harriet Tubman
2. Hymn: On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand
3. Melville: The Portent
4. Interlude #1: A Call to Arms
5. Clara Barton
6. Melville: Shiloh - A Requiem
7. Hymn: Death, like an overflowing stream
8. Interlude #2: An Overflowing Stream
9. Harriet Beecher Stowe
10. Whitman: Dirge for Two Veterans
11. Interlude #3: Desolate Field
12. Hymn: O, were I like a feathered dove
Scoring: soprano, violin, viola, cello & piano
Commissioned: Texas Lutheran University
Premiere: Laurel Thomas, soprano and instrumentalists
TLU Women’s Choir, Douglas Boyer, conductorBraddock
Ayers Recital Hall, TLU, April, 2015
Duration: 47’
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Nocturne (2002) [Poems by Byron & Shelley]
1. Sun of the sleepless! melancholy star!
2. Music
3. As the moon’s soft splendor...
4. Ozymandias
5. Rough wind that moanest loud
6. Music, when soft voices die
7. So, we’ll go no more a-roving
Scoring: soprano solo, 3 (picc)-2-2-2-contra), 4-2-3-0, timp, 2 perc & strings
Commissioned: The Maryland Symphony Orchestra
Premiere: Tony Arnold, soprano; The Maryland Symphony Orchestra, Elizabeth Schulze, conductor
The Maryland Theatre, Hagerstown MD, March 2002
Duration: 30’
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A recording of this work is available in the Orchestra & Wind Ensemble list
1. Sun of the sleepless! melancholy star!
2. Music
3. As the moon’s soft splendor...
4. Ozymandias
5. Rough wind that moanest loud
6. Music, when soft voices die
7. So, we’ll go no more a-roving
Scoring: soprano solo, 3 (picc)-2-2-2-contra), 4-2-3-0, timp, 2 perc & strings
Commissioned: The Maryland Symphony Orchestra
Premiere: Tony Arnold, soprano; The Maryland Symphony Orchestra, Elizabeth Schulze, conductor
The Maryland Theatre, Hagerstown MD, March 2002
Duration: 30’
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A recording of this work is available in the Orchestra & Wind Ensemble list
Pomes Penyeach (1979) [Poems by James Joyce]
1. Tilly
2. Ecce Puer
3. A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at Midnight
4. She Weeps Over Rahoon
Scoring: soprano, flute, cello & piano
Premiere: Carolyn Fittz, soprano; Frances Lapp Averitt, flute; James Fittz, cello & Elizabeth Temple, piano
Armstrong Auditorium, Shenandoah Conservatory, Winchester VA, March 1979
Duration: ca. 12’
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1. Tilly
2. Ecce Puer
3. A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at Midnight
4. She Weeps Over Rahoon
Scoring: soprano, flute, cello & piano
Premiere: Carolyn Fittz, soprano; Frances Lapp Averitt, flute; James Fittz, cello & Elizabeth Temple, piano
Armstrong Auditorium, Shenandoah Conservatory, Winchester VA, March 1979
Duration: ca. 12’
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Simples (2009) [Poems by James Joyce]
1. Nightpiece
2. Simples
Scoring: tenor & piano
Premiere: Byron Jones, tenor & Karen Keating, piano
Shenandoah Conservatory, September 2010
Duration: 7’
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1. Nightpiece
2. Simples
Scoring: tenor & piano
Premiere: Byron Jones, tenor & Karen Keating, piano
Shenandoah Conservatory, September 2010
Duration: 7’
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Take My Hand (2014) [5 Poems by Robert Bode]
1. Morning Music
2. Night Song
3. Passing
4. In the Silence
5. Take My Hand
Scoring: mezzo-soprano, flute & piano
Premiere: Donna Gullstrand, soprano; Frances Lapp Averitt, flute & Sue Marston Boyd, piano
The Villages, FL, January 2014
Duration: 15’
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1. Morning Music
2. Night Song
3. Passing
4. In the Silence
5. Take My Hand
Scoring: mezzo-soprano, flute & piano
Premiere: Donna Gullstrand, soprano; Frances Lapp Averitt, flute & Sue Marston Boyd, piano
The Villages, FL, January 2014
Duration: 15’
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The Golden Harp (1998)
Scoring: soprano & flute
Premiere: Janet Davis, soprano & Frances Lapp Averitt, flute
Harlaxton Manor, Grantham England, July 1998
Duration: 2’30”
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Scoring: soprano & flute
Premiere: Janet Davis, soprano & Frances Lapp Averitt, flute
Harlaxton Manor, Grantham England, July 1998
Duration: 2’30”
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The Seventh Seal (2006) [Revelation & John Donne]
Scoring: soprano & organ
Commissioned: Dudley Oakes
Premiere: Aimé Sposato, soprano & Dudley Oakes, organ
Washington National Cathedral, Washington DC, February 2007
Duration: 10’30”
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Scoring: soprano & organ
Commissioned: Dudley Oakes
Premiere: Aimé Sposato, soprano & Dudley Oakes, organ
Washington National Cathedral, Washington DC, February 2007
Duration: 10’30”
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The Truth from Above (1993) [Anonymous Medieval Poems of the British Isles]
1. The Truth Sent from Above
2. The Wexford Carol
3. I Saw Three Ships
4. The Christ Child’s Lullaby
5. The Truth Sent from Above
6. Gower Wassail
Scoring: soprano, flute & piano
Commissioned: Sonus
Premiere: Sonus: Carole Schaffer, soprano; L. Billie Witte, flute; Thew Elliott, piano
Meridian International Center, Washington DC, December 1993
Duration: 18’
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1. The Truth Sent from Above
2. The Wexford Carol
3. I Saw Three Ships
4. The Christ Child’s Lullaby
5. The Truth Sent from Above
6. Gower Wassail
Scoring: soprano, flute & piano
Commissioned: Sonus
Premiere: Sonus: Carole Schaffer, soprano; L. Billie Witte, flute; Thew Elliott, piano
Meridian International Center, Washington DC, December 1993
Duration: 18’
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (1983) [Poem by Wallace Stevens]
Scoring: soprano solo, SATB chorus & string orchestra
Commissioned: Winchester Musica Viva
Premiere: Donna Gullstrand, soprano; Winchester Music VIva & Richmond Sinfonia, William Averitt, conductor
Braddock Street UMC, Winchester VA, May 1983
Duration: ca. 15’
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Scoring: soprano solo, SATB chorus & string orchestra
Commissioned: Winchester Musica Viva
Premiere: Donna Gullstrand, soprano; Winchester Music VIva & Richmond Sinfonia, William Averitt, conductor
Braddock Street UMC, Winchester VA, May 1983
Duration: ca. 15’
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Two Haiku Settings (1996) [Poems by Issa & Santoka]
1. Out of the Darkness
2. Alone, silently
Scoring: baritone, flute clarinet bassoon, violin, viola, cello & piano
Commissioned: Currents
Premiere: Fred Cohen, baritone & Currents
Camp Concert Hall, Univ of Richmond, Richmond VA, March 1999
Duration: 1’15”
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1. Out of the Darkness
2. Alone, silently
Scoring: baritone, flute clarinet bassoon, violin, viola, cello & piano
Commissioned: Currents
Premiere: Fred Cohen, baritone & Currents
Camp Concert Hall, Univ of Richmond, Richmond VA, March 1999
Duration: 1’15”
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