Songs By Voice Type - Baritone  Songs By Voice Type - Baritone

Songs By Voice Type - Baritone

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Echo - with piano.

- setting of Christina Rossetti poem in which the narrator yearns for his/her dead lover.

The Ballad Singer - with piano.

- setting of Thomas Hardy poem about a lost love

Mystery - with piano.

- settings of Sara Teasdale: themes of love.

Holocaust 1944
- with double bass.

- Holocaust themed cycle, featuring the poetry of  Ficowski, Vogetl, Rosewicz, Gershon and Ranasinghe. (28 minutes)

Men with Small Heads
- with piano

- humorous, off-beat, but all true stories by poet Thomas Lux. The song "Men with Small Heads" won "Best American Art Song" in the 2004 American Art Song Competition sponsored by the San Francisco Song Festival.

Long Pond Revisited - with cello

- settings of Maine poet C.G.R. Shepard. Focus on death of a lover, and subsequent acceptance.

Fathers
- with piano trio

- another Holocaust themed cycle, premiered by Music of Remembrance in 2003. Poems by Ranasinghe and Vogel.
(not yet published)

The Throwback 
- with piano

- settings of Pulitzer Prize winning poet Paul Muldoon.

Money 
- with piano.

- setting of Dana Gioia. A humorous take on money.

Being Happy
- with piano

- a cabaret setting of a Dana Gioia poem, about an affair in Seattle.

Swimmers on the Shore - with piano

- setting of David Mason poem, about his father's battle with Alzheimer's. Commissioned by The West Chester University Poetry Conference in 2004

On A Photograph - for all voice types, with piano. duet versions as well.

- setting of poem by John Wood, imagining the life of two men in an old photograph.

The Seed of Dream
- with cello and piano.

- settings of Vilna Ghetto survivor Abraham Sutzkever with translations by C.K. Williams and Leonard Wolf. Power first person accounts of hiding from the Nazis during WW II. . Hailed as "a masterpiece that should not be missed" by Dr. Sharon Mabry of The Journal of Singing.

The Perfected Life - with piano

- Emily Dickinson settings, various moods, celebrating a life well lived.

A Wild Sostenuto - with piano.

- Richard Wilbur setting, about the power of long lasting love. Commissioned by the West Chester University Poetry Conference, 2008.

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