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Rosie the Riveter was commissioned by H.R. Reynolds for the University of Michigan Symphonic Wind Ensemble in 2000.  It is my dissertation, and still one of my favorites.

Coming Home is performed here by Colin Thurmond, a phenomenal guitarist well worth the visit if you get the chance!

Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) was a woman of many talents - a composer, abbess, writer, confidant and counselor, scientist, physician, philosopher, poet, and visionary.  Her chant Laus Trinitati is one I find particularly stirring for many many reasons.  Here is my arrangement of that beautiful melody.


The illumination to the left here is her art-work:  "Trinity"

I received a commission to compose a millennium fanfare shortly before my dearest childhood friend entered into hospice.  He died in March 2000, two weeks before the death of my grandfather.  The director and I agreed upon the text "Ring out Wild Bells" by Alfred Lord Tennyson for different, but for each, very meaningful reasons:
          "Ring out wild bells, to the wild sky; the flying cloud, the frosty light.
           The year is dying in the night.  Ring out wild bells and let him die."

"The man pulling radishes pointed the way with a radish."  Issa.  Pulling Radishes is scored for 9 percussionists, and was commissioned by the NEC Percussion Ensemble, directed by Frank Epstein.  It was released in 2011 on a Naxos Recording: American Music for Percussion, Vol. 1.

C.A. Codol wrote the gorgeous text to this setting I composed for women's chorus: In the Valley of the Moon