Dream within a Dream
Miracles (Walt Whitman)
A Cradle Song (William Blake)
A Dream Within a Dream (Edgar Allan Poe)
There came a wind like a bugle (Emily Dickinson)
Dover Beach (Matthew Arnold)
Five songs based on texts by Whitman, Blake, Poe, Dickinson, and Arnold
October 15, 2006, NEC’s Jordan Hall, D’Anna Fortunato and Larry Bell
March 30, 2007, Robin Reinert, soprano, and Larry Bell, piano. 29th Annual Seminar on Contemporary Music For the Young, The Rivers Music School, Weston, MA
Dream Within a Dream, Op. 79, is a song cycle of five diverse poets: Whitman, Blake, Poe, Dickinson, and Arnold. The songs were specifically written for my composition student Robin Reinert (who is also a fine soprano) in the spring of 2006. The songs were first performed in October 2006 by D’Anna Fortunato and myself in Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory. Later in 2007, Robin Reinert and I performed the songs while I was composer-in-residence at the Rivers School in the spring of 2007.
More Vocal and Choral Works
The Prism of the Lyre, Opus 197
Seven Principles for SATB chorus acapella No. 7, Opus 193
In Common Things for soprano and piano, Opus 190 no. 2
Music when soft voices die, no. 1, Opus 190 no. 1
The Shadows Fall So Gently, Opus 181
Parables of Love and Death, Opus 173
A Hymnbook for Congregational Singing, Opus 169
The Harp at Nature's Advent, Opus 167
Thou God of Love, Thou Ever Blessed, Opus 164
Blest Are the Sons of Peace, Opus 16
O God our Help in Ages Past, Opus 162
Awake our Souls, Away our Fears, Opus 160
Once to Every Soul and Nation, Opus 144
Arrangements of Congregational Music for Thanksgiving, Opus 142
I'm Just A Poor Wayfaring Stranger, Opus 131
And Am I Born to Die?, Opus 129
Fancies, a cycle of five songs for Tenor and Piano, Opus 117
Revels, A cycle of ten songs for Baritone Voice and Piano, Opus 114
The Echolocations of Cellos, Opus 108
The Seasons, A Cantata, Opus 101
Summer: The Fragrant Pathway of Eternity, Opus 100
Spring: In the Pendulum of My Body, Opus 99
Duet from Holy Ghosts, Opus 93
Winter: Exaltations of Snowy Stars, Opus 929
Unchanging Love, a hymn based on a text by Romulus Linney, Opus 87
Fall: Autumnal Raptures, a song cycle for Tenor and Harp, Opus 86
Songs of Time and Eternity, Opus 64
Ten Poems of William Blake, Opus 53
“The Immortal Beloved”, Opus 50
A Cry Against the Twilight, Opus 42
“Prologue” and “The End of the World”, Opus 14
Reality Is an Activity of the Most August Imagination, Opus 8