Songs, Cycles, & Sets Accompanied by piano unless otherwise indicated. Most available for high or medium voice

Life's Best Gifts (2004)-  Text by Paul Laurence Dunbar                                    9 minutes Confirmation: "He was a poet who wrote clever verses"                          The Poet and The Baby: "How's a man to write a sonnet..."                        Contentment: "Give me no days more brilliant than I know."                    Rain: "The rain streams down like harp strings from the sky."  Celebration, Sorrow, Strength -  expressing universal concepts based on Old Testament women.  Text by composer. Miriam Sang                                2 minutes Rachel, Crying for Her Children    3 minutes Deborah Arose                            3 minutes Three Marys in Four Songs (1980)  - based on New Testament Biblical women.  Text by composer. Mary, Mother of Jesus                                3 minutes Mary Magdalene - Woman of Devotion      5 minutes Mary Magdalene of Easter                          3 minutes Mary and Martha                                        5 minutes Three Psalms (1999) art songs with piano, or string quartet or string orchestra based on inclusive language Psalm texts. Psalm 81                                3 minutes Psalm 131                              3 minutes Psalm 116                              5 minutes Eight by Emily - on Love and Marriage - art songs with viola and cello accomp., poems by Emily Dickinson        total 14 minutes In Lands I Never Saw   Wild Nights O Friend   A Woman White to Be The Lover Bee   She Rose to His Requirement Come Slowly, Eden   I'm Wife Sense and Nonsense  -  Text by Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland Everything has a moral Never imagine yourself to be otherwise More Morals If there's no meaning in it Vocal Solos (1981) 2 songs w/flute-songs for mezzo soprano and alto flute, or soprano and C flute . text by Wharton Sinkler   A Fullness of Time                             3 minutes When the Sun has Set                        3 minutes Vocal Solos- 2 songs w/flute text by Helen Meier (1981) Nature Moves - melody by Helen Meier     30 seconds Creation, a Symphony                                  30 seconds The Catherine Wheel+ song cycle for mezzo soprano w/violin, viola, cello, flute, clarinet, piano Ten songs which chronicle the story of an unfaithful husband and the pain and sorrow of his wife.   16 minutes Text by Annette Lynch A Woman's Heart+, (1982) Beyond Gifts text by Helen Meier Heart, We Will Forget Him text by Emily Dickinson A Birthday text by Christina Rossetti

Solo Cantata

The Spanish Gypsy+, (1982) mezzo soprano w/orchestra text selections from the George Eliot epic poem of the same name.

Single Songs

The Colored Soldiers - 2008 text by Paul Laurence Dunbar, described under Choral, this song was originally conceived of as a vocal solo. We Ask a Blessing (1990) (wedding song)  text by composer.      3 minutes  To God We Give (1993) (wedding song)  text by composer. Special Women (1995) lesbian wedding song Mary's Gift - unusual Christmas text by composer       3 minutes As a Mother Comforts Her Children - Text by composer based on Isaiah 66:13         3 minutes Untouchable+ -   song of the Biblical woman with an issue of blood. They Went Home+ - for soprano and saxophone    2 minutes Poem by Maya Angelou - song of a prostitute The Committeewoman+ - Text by composer Subject: Frustrations of a woman of the 80's, Humorous       4 minutes

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