The monodrama Ahab is the third that Hall has created with librettist Caitlin Vincent. This ten-minute work takes an imaginary approach to the final moments in the life of Herman Melville's

Each song in this collection is dedicated to four singers - friends of the composer. The songs Homecoming and Quilt were commissioned by the West Chester University Poetry Conference (West

Lincoln was commissioned for the Lincoln Symposium, Concord, Massachusetts, in celebration of the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth, February 13, 2009. The string orchestra is scored for

Powerfully poignant and equally tender, My Dearest Ruth is a musical setting of the final love letter from Martin Ginsburg to his wife, the opera-loving Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,

This poem by John Keats has been set into a cycle of eight songs for baritone and piano by modern American composer Ben Moore. Songs include: My heart aches; O, for a draught; Fade far away; Away!

Based on texts by Robert Service, this cycle of 5 songs for baritone and piano includes: The Heart of the Sourdough, The Lure of the Little Voices, Premonition,

Inspired by the great classical song cycles that use poetry about nature, Sara Teasdale's text provides descriptive poetry that Esenvalds sets beautifully and expressively. The phrases are short, which