It’s distressing when somebody says something offensive. Your face flushes; your heartbeat goes up; it’s like getting mild exercise, or drinking coffee. Here’s a song for those occasions.

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A piece for viola and piano; an octatonic theme harmonized and turned into a canon.

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A drowsy little piece for piano, recommended for nap time. The title comes from Keats. Thanks, Keats.

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From my conservatory days, an idea for a graphic score notated on flipbooks. I did this for my freshman composition class, and it made a cheery racket.

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I think that if I’d lived in NYC any longer, I would have ended up gouging out someone’s eyes. Here I can purge those fantasies in a song.

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A plea for tolerance: remember, someone who disagrees with you may simply have his head up his ass.

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A song about the universe.

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I’ve written a number of pieces for viola and keyboard, mostly because the violist David Gold is willing to play them. I plan to write one for each letter of the alphabet (“A Grim Reckoning” doesn’t count). So far, these are the titles: A Grim Reckoning Doze Kibosh Lullabilious Nocebo Onus Parget Qualm Respite Stint […]

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A brief round, after Remy de Gourmont.

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Here, if anyone is interested, is an alphabetical list of my songs. It includes art songs, cabaret songs, songs from shows, choral works, and everything else. Except, of course, for all the ones I wrote and threw out. Agnosticize [TTBB] Alba (Ezra Pound) [SAT] Alphabet Amerigo and Isabella Anecdote (Jean de La Fontaine, my translation) […]

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