Genere: Unitartian/Universalist Hymn
Instrumentation: Congregational singing and organ
Date of composition: 2019
text: Issac Watts
Commissioned: by Robert August for First Church Boston
Program note: The second version of a hymn with the same text by Isaac Watts, this version is slower, more diatonic, and clearly centered in d minor.
instrumentation: Soprano, ‘Cello, and Piano
duration: ca. 5’
text: by the composer
commissioned: Save the Music, Inc.
dedication: written in memory of Rosalie Calabrese
Genere: Unitartian/Universalist Hymn
Instrumentation: Congregational singing and organ
Date of composition: 2019
text: Issac Watts
Commissioned: by Robert August for First Church Boston
Title: Domenica a Filicudi, op. 158
Commissioned by: Joan, Mary, and Cathy Collins
Dedication: in memory of Deborah Collins
Date of composition: 2019
Instrumentation: soprano voice, viola, and piano
Text: based on a poem by Deborah Collins
Performance time: ca. 5 minutes
First performance: May 12, 2019, Christie Lee Gibson-voice, David Wallace-viola, Larry Bell-piano
TEXT
Sunday on Filicudi (Domenica a Filicudi)
Aeolus frolicking in the fronds,
Caressing the bougainvillea,
Cavorting in the soft ripples of the blue Tyrrhenian
sea.
Swallows dipping, the occasional raven croaking,
All else is quiet.
My world is at peace.
-Deborah Collins, 2016
title: The Lone Wild Bird, op. 154
date of composition: 2018
text: traditional folk
instrumentation: mezzo-soprano-voice and piano
first performance: Marilyn Oliver-voice, Larry Bell-piano, June 2018, Berklee College of Music
duration: ca. 3 minutes
title: Thou God of Love, op. 161
dedication: to the choir of First Church of Boston
instrumentation:A capella choir (SATB)
date of composition: 2018
text: Issaac Watts
program notes: The first version of an original hymn tune on a text by Isaac Watts. This version is based on a 16 note pattern and is more chromatic than the second version. It is also included in A Hymnbook for Congregational Singing. op. 169)
Title: Gaslight op. 147
Date of Composition: 2017
Instrumentation: baritone voice and piano
Text: Larry Bell
First performance: Bill Thorpe-voice, Larry Bell-piano, January 20, 2018 Williams Hall at New Enaland Conservatory
subsequent performances: Bill Thorpe and Larry Bell at the Berklee College of Music June, 2018
dedication: to Graham Hair and Scottish Voices
commissioned: Scottish Voices
instrumentation: Three Sopranos and Three Mezzo-Soprano soloists
date of composition: 2017
duration: ca. 15 minutes
text: traditional Latin Mass
Kyrie
Gloria
Sanctus
Agnus Dei
Communion
commissioned: Paul Cienniwa for the women’s voices of the First Church Boston choir
text: Russell Lowell (18th century)
instrumentation: SSA women’s choir (or as SSA soloists)
first performance: April 2017, First Church Boston (available on YouTube)
