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LIBRETTOS:
Deeds (with Beth Wiemann, composer), 2003: performed by Opera Workshop, University of Maine, 2003-04; recorded by Intermezzo, 2006; semi-finalist, Opera Vista, June 2007. link to Beth Wiemann website
link to festival Opera Vista
Rimshot (with Russell Currie, composer), 1990: performed at Pace University Downtown Theater Summer Festival, 1990. Google: “Russell Currie Soundcloud Rimshot.”
Carla, the Copy-Shop Girl: ATale of Canal Street. (See “Carla” page on this website. Composers who might be interested in collaborating on an opera that uses this libretto should contact Ron Singer.)
POETRY SETTINGS:
“Poems in the Navajo Manner (7),” set (separately) by Barbara Ulman and Aaron Siegel, 2016.
“Grain Moon,” set by Barbara Ulman, 2015.
“Atom So Tiny” and “The Pre-Death Scene,” set by Christopher Fisher-Lochhead, 2007. link to Christopher Fisher-Lochhead website.
Two love poems set by Christopher Fisher-Lochhead, 2006.
“Eating Variations (5),” set by Rob Paterson, 2006. link to Rob Paterson website
“Eating Variations” was given its world premiere by the American Music Ensemble at the Tenri Center in New York City on June 8, 2009, and was performed by bass–baritone Stephen Grant and the Syzgy Ensemble in Melbourne, Australia, on September 5th, 2010.
“Seascape Questions,” set by Frederick Koch, 2003.
” Fly, Firefly” and “Old Apple Tree,” set by Frederick Koch, 1998.