The first song from the three-song set "Time's Shadow", for SATB chorus and piano

The second song from the three-song set "Time's Shadow", for SATB chorus and piano

The final song from the three-song set "Time's Shadow", for SATB chorus and piano

The first song of the six-song cycle "Trajectory of Flight", for mezzo-soprano and strings

The second song of the six-song cycle "Trajectory of Flight", for mezzo-soprano and strings

The third song of the six-song cycle "Trajectory of Flight", for mezzo-soprano and strings

The fourth song of the six-song cycle "Trajectory of Flight", for mezzo-soprano and strings

The fifth song of the six-song cycle "Trajectory of Flight", for mezzo-soprano and strings

The final song of the six-song cycle "Trajectory of Flight", for mezzo-soprano and strings

A setting of a beautiful poem by Jean L. Connor for unaccompanied SATB divisi choir

The first song of the four-song set "A Solitary Voice", for unaccompanied SATB chorus

The second song of the four-song set "A Solitary Voice", for unaccompanied SATB chorus

The third song of the four-song set "A Solitary Voice", for unaccompanied SATB chorus

The final song of the four-song set "A Solitary Voice", for unaccompanied SATB chorus

The first song in the three-song set "Three Songs from Twelfth Night" for SATB chorus and strings

The second song in the three-song set "Three Songs from Twelfth Night" for SATB chorus and strings

The final song in the three-song set "Three Songs from Twelfth Night" for SATB chorus and strings

A setting of my own text for unaccompanied SATB chorus

This CD contains choral and vocal music composed over two decades, from Our Wish This Year is Peace (1992) to two works composed especially for the concerts in 2011 during which the CD was recorded, Summer for unaccompanied chorus and Trajectory of Flight for mezzo-soprano and strings. The works contain settings of poetry by Shakespeare (Three Songs from Twelfth Night) as well as Vermont poets David Budbill (A Solitary Voice), Jean L. Connor (Summer and Trajectory of Flight) and Barbara St. Nielsen (Time’s Shadow). The CD features mezzo-soprano Wendy Hoffman-Farrell, pianist Mary Jane Austin, violinists Sofia Hirsch and Laura Markowitz, violist Elizabeth Reid, cellist John Dunlop, and the chamber chorus Voces Dulcissimae, all under the direction of Larry Hamberlin.

Track Listing
Time's Shadow:
Begin the Day
Spring Lake
Garden's End

Trajectory of Flight:
Now, in March
Allegro
Evening
Late August
Keeping the Silence
Almost Night

Summer

A Solitary Voice:
Which?
After a Walk
Autumn and Crickets
What Issa Heard

Three Songs From Twelfth Night:
O Mistress Mine
Come Away, Death
When That I Was

Our Wish This Year is Peace