Vocal

Call Across the Generations (09/05)
SSAA Treble Choir
Commissioned by PALS Children’s Chorus for Brookine’s 300th Anniversary
Funded by the Brookline tercentennial fund

Castles in the Air (01/04) 
SSAA Treble Choir or SATB Choir
Co-written with Eliza Moore
Commissioned by PALS Children’s Chorus, Brookline MA
Premiered by PALS at Harvard’s Sanders Theater, Cambridge, MA for the American Choral Directors Association Eastern Division Conference 2004

For the Beauty of the Earth (3/03)
SSA Treble Choir
Funded by Church of the Redeemer, Chestnut Hill, MA)
The words from the original hymn are re-set to a high energy bluegrass tune.

He ‘Rose(3/01)
SATB or SAT (Treble choir and tenor section)
Funded by Church of the Redeemer, Chestnut Hill, MA
A Resurrection song for intergenerational voices:  the original words from the hymn were reset to bluesy tune that trades back and forth within the verses between a treble (child or children) voice and a tenor (adult male), then gives way to an energetic duet for the refrain.

I’m Going to Spangola (5/99)
Treble choir and chamber orchestra or 7-piece ensemble or piano
Invited to be the U.S. representative song to Lo Zecchino d’ Oro
Winner of KidSing 2000, international children’s song competition

Going to Spangola
 (Musical) (5/02):
SA and chamber orchestra or piano
I’m Going to Spangola
If Only
Spangolese Nationola Anthemleva
The Plan
What Happened
Sure of You
The Great Guerbling Empire
The Spy-Crowlevas
Wonderful
Original musical for Chamber Orchestra and Children’s Singing Cast 
Lyrics and book by Liz Duffy Adams and Kate Snow
Premiered at PALS on Stage, Brookline MA

As You Like It (10/01)
Soprano, 2 Tenors, Two Baritones, 2 Children, Ensemble Adult Cast, Lute, Viola da Gamba, & Recorder
Under the Greenwood Tree 
Blow, Blow
What Shall He Have
It Was a Lover and his Lass
Then is there Mirth
Wedding is Great Juno’s Crown 
Score for Shakespeare’s As You Like It
Commissioned by the MIT Shakespeare Ensemble 

This is a Fugue in C Major(6/01) 
SATB 

Wide (5/01)
Intergenerational chorus, clarinet, cello, upright piano, classical guitar, body percussion, & tape
Calls
Backwards March
Fugue
Water is Wide (new tune)
A performance project for intergenerational chorus and professional dance company. 
Pieces are based upon the traditional folk tune “The Water is Wide”, playing with the material using various compositional techniques.  These were originally performed by an intergenerational group of singers and instrumentalists, intermingled with other traditional songs and new dance pieces to form the whole of Wide. 
Commissioned by the Tufts University Dance Department

Tea (1/00)
Flute, computer tape, temple percussion
A performance project based on the Japanese Tea Ceremony
Commissioned by the Andover-Newton Theological School

Songs
(6/97-12-98)

The Dharma Army
Roberta
Selfish
Sarcastic Sugarplum
Chest Hair
Momma
Inside/Out
Right Place
Dogs
Louisa
Bagatelitos Rancheros
 

Songs for Scoundrels (5/97)
A cycle of songs for 3 vocalists, clarinet, Alto Saxophone, 2 Trumpets, Trombone, Drum Kit, Piano, Electric Bass, String Quartet
A Perception of Worth
Breakfast Clothes
Minotaurs Missionaries
Campfire Song
Perfect Congress
Our Maturing Diaries
Call of the Wild
A Farmyard Fray

If My Father (11/95)
Tenor and bass clarinet
Commissioned by choreographer Brian Crabtree 
15 miniatures for Tenor and Bass Clarinet

A Family of Songs (10/95) :
Vocal quartet, piano, bass, drum kit
A cycle of songs written from American poems on familiar relationships
The People 
Abel’s Bride
Dilemma
The Ache of Marriage
Do it Y’rself
Son
Paradox
Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom

James and the Giant Peach  (10/92)
Children’s singing cast
and  violin, cello, trombone, flute, clarinet, piano, percussion
Spiker was Thin as a Wire
Sponge was Terrifically Fat
I’ve Eaten Fresh Mudburgers
We May See a Creature
I Look and Smell, I do Declare
Score for full-length children’s musical
Commissioned by the Children’s Theatre of Maine

3 Songs on Desire 
Tenor and lute
Shadows
Desire
Jove

Instrumental

Consent to Gravity
A collection of 7 pieces commissioned by Newport’s Island Moving Company, 
for Consent to Gravity, a performance project celebrating the work of visual artist Frederick Sommer (02/05) :

Indian Summer (9/00)
Clarinet and tape
Commissioned by choreographer Daniel McCusker

James and the Giant Peach (09/92)
Violin, cello, trombone, flute, clarinet, piano, percussion
Overture and various incidental
Commissioned by the Children’s Theatre of Maine
See also James and Giant Peach songs (Vocal)

Elana & Tianli (02/01)
4 hands piano 

Eddy Estlin for 4 Hands (12/97)
4 hands piano

Hornfare (8/93)
6 French Horns 
Written for James Decker and the Horn Ensemble at the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival 1993

Ambition in the Rumble Seat (1/93)
String quartet

Niels (3/91)
Solo Double Bass 
Premiered by Robert Black at the Sonoklect New Music Festival 1991

Orchestra

I’m Going to Spangola
Orchestra and treble choir
Invited to be the U.S. representative song to Italy’s Lo Zecchino d’ Oro
Winner of KidSing 2000, international children’s song competition

Sixteen Going on Seventeen
So Long Farewell
Orchestra and vocal 
Arrangements of Rodgers and Hammerstein
Commissioned by Rattlesby Management for the Von Trapp Children

Bells, Bells, Bells
Orchestra and stage band 
Arrangements
Commissioned by the Bucks County Orchestra

August Fields Afternoon (3/94)
Chamber orchestra