The second string quartet consists of four rounds: two that were originally vocal, and two that weren’t. Bass lines and other niceties are sometimes added.

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In 1982, I wrote music for Cortland Set, a dance by Margaret Jenkins.  The score was based on the poetry of Michael Palmer: part of it was a tetrachordal setting of his words, and part was piano music developed from the same material.  

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I’ve written a number of drone pieces for organ; this is one of them (that is, the beginning of one of them).

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The Regard of Flight appeared at the Great Lakes Festival in Cleveland in 1987.  It was a busy year for that show. Here’s a review.  I’ve been called many things, but I’d never before been compared to an Arrow collar ad.

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I’ve written several rounds on the verses of Robert Herrick.  They seem quite suited for that.  Here’s one of them.  

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Raymond Roussel’s Nouvelles Impressions d’Afrique is a remarkable book: four poems, describing sites in Africa, each digressing into an elaborate structure of nested parentheses.  Roussel published it himself; and to thicken it, commissioned 59 illustrations.  Characteristically, he avoided contact with the illustrator, preferring to hire a detective agency to find an artist, who then drew […]

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I’ve set a number of proverbs as rounds.  We sang some of these in the Patient Island Singers, after we branched out from only doing material about Roosevelt Island.  Here are a couple of them.

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A lively piano piece, written while I was performing in Gardiner, Maine, back in 1994.

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A reverie, tinged with understandable concern.

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