Exodus 17

"American Death Ballads was composed especially for tenor Brian Thorsett and premiered by him at the San Francisco Conservatory, November 1, 2015, with pianist John Churchwell, and at the National

Kohn embarked on discovering and arranging lesser-known folk songs from the American tradition in this set of 15 folk songs. Each is a mini-drama with a story to tell; someone is traveling, working or

Based on five poems about autumn by 20th- and 21st-century American poets, this song cycle celebrates the fall season and explores the themes of the swiftness of time, the passage from summer to winter, and

Jessie Anderson Chase's short story The Old Things, one of 81 prizewinners in the collection Short Stories from Life, is the basis for this libretto of the same name. The author poetically

Many attribute this text to to Noah S. ("Soggy") Sweat, a judge and member of the Mississippi legislature, circa 1952. Whether true or not, this piece is an unexpected relief from the formal - or just a

Song of the Silkie (String Quartet No. 2) is a dramatic work for high baritone (or baritone and soprano, or mezzo-soprano, or countertenor) and string quartet. The work is based on a folk tale

This text was adapted from Mark Twain's The War Prayer, which he wrote in 1904-5 to protest America’s involvement in the Spanish-American War. His family convinced him to keep if from

A collection of four songs for high voice and piano, these 'Wing' songs are inspired by the many characters of birds portrayed in poetry and folksongs. The tiny swallow is a mournful bird, weeping in

David Conte has set these three William Butler Yeats texts in a short song cycle for high voice and string quartet or piano. The first and last songs (The Sorrow of Love; When You Are Old) are