Title
Text
Duration Instrumentation and notes Movements and MP3s

 

love is the every only god

 

e. e. cummings

 

15'

 

chamber choir

1. a pretty a day
2. she being Brand new
3. may i feel
4. love is the every only god
5. up into the silence
6. spring!may
7. O the sun comes up-up-up
8. !hope

In Just-spring
e.e. cummings
24'
treble choir
(children's choir or women's choir)
and piano
  1. in Just-spring
  2. hist whist
  3. riverly is a flower
  4. anyone lived
  5. stinging gold swarms
  6. who knows
Four Songs, The Dream and
Old Song

Dorothy Livesay
 

chamber choir

1. People will say
2. It is the fire you love
3. And yet you knew
4. I drink now
5. The Dream
6. Old Song

Prayers ,Poems and Incantations
for the Earth


trad. native American
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Bible
e. e. cummings
Li Po
Dylan Thomas
Chief Dan George

24'
for chamber choir and treble choir

1. Incantation 1 (Trad. Native American)
2. Wild Air (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
3. Incantation 2
4. Rise Up My Love (Bible)
5. Incantation 3
6. Glory Be to God (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
7. Incantation 4
8. i thank you God (e. e. cummings)
9. Incantation 5
10. You Ask Why (Li Po)
11. Incantation 6
12. The Force (Dylan Thomas)
13. Incantation 7
14. The Beauty of the Trees (Chief Dan George)

A Prayer for the Earth

Text from:
Chief Seattle                       
Atharva Veda XIX
Rabbi Abraham Heschel,                     
Alamsaeen, traditional Moslem                       
Anonymous
Bible, Deuteronomy 8:7-11
Chief Dan George

9 '

for chorus and orchestra
Orchestra:2 (II+picc)/2II+E.Hn)/1 cl/1 bs. cl/1 bsn/ 1 cbsn
4/2/3
Timp.
Strings

Large Choir and Chamber Choir
(The Chamber Choir should consist of at least 20 singers)

 

 

 
Disasters of the Sun
Dorothy Livesay
17'

for choir and gamelan (8 players)

or choir and piano

Track 1
Introduction
1. O you old gold
2. The world is round
3. Though I was certain

Track 2
4. My hands
5. During the last heat wave
6. Keep out
7. When the black sun


Of Him I Love
and
A Noiseless, Patient Spider


Walt Whitman
7'
   
Echoland
James Joyce
15'

for chorus and inst. ensemble:
2 grand pianos (with lids up)
5 treble instruments(2 of them must be loud, such as trumpet or clarinet)
2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello
1 bass instrument
women's chorus (ten or more)
men's chorus (ten or more)

 
Livesay Songs
Dorothy Livesay
11'
for soprano and piano

1. Secret
2. Meet Me at Noon
3. If I Awake
4. Staccato


Pictures from Breughel

William Carlos Williams
 
for soprano., baritone. and WW Quintet
(fl., ob., cl., hn., bsn.)
 

Whispers of Heavenly Death and
Chanting the Square Deific

Walt Whitman
6'
2 sopranaos and piano