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All in green went my love riding  (e.e.cummings) for women’s voices (SSA) and two horns, 1973
   Performances:
      University of North Carolina at Greensboro Women's Glee Club, William McIver, conductor;          Greensboro, NC, 1974
      The North Carolina Music Teachers' Convention, Boone, NC, 1974
      Oberlin Winter Term Women's Choir, K. Scott Alberts, conductor; Oberlin, OH, 1994

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Agnus Dei
  for children’s or women’s voices (SA) and organ or piano and cello, 1991
   Premiere by the Oberlin Winter Term Women's Choir, K. Scott Alberts, conductor; Oberlin, OH,       1994

Benediction
  (J. H. Newman), for choir (two-part) and organ. 1991.  2’
   Premiere by Community Choir, L.B. Brown, conductor, Detroit, MI, 2004

Memorial Acclamation
  for congregational singing and organ. 1991. 1’
   Premiere and multiple performances at St. Aidan’s Episcopal, Ann Arbor, MI, 1998

Prayers From the
Ark (Carmen Bernos de Gasztold, trans. by Rumer Godden), for mixed    voices (SATB).  1993. 12’
         1. The Prayer of the Mouse
         2. The Prayer of the Goldfish
         3. The Prayer of the Tortoise
         4. The Prayer of the Dove

   (The Prayer of the Goldfish) Premiere by The Masterworks Chorale, Donna Tozer Wipfli,       conductor; Toledo, OH, 1993
   (The Prayer of the Dove) Premiere reading by The Gregg Smith Singers, Composers’ Workshop,
   Gregg Smith, conductor, Saranac, NY, 2000

Wild Geese
  (Mary Oliver), for mixed voices (SSATBB). 1993. 6’
   Performances:
      The Masterworks Chorale, Donna Tozer Wipfli, conductor; Toledo, OH, 1993
      Reading by The Gregg Smith Singers, Composers’ Workshop, Gregg Smith, conductor,              Saranac, NY, 2000

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Kyrie
  for mixed voices (SATB) and organ, with optional violin, cello, hammered dulcimer, and percussion. 1997. 4’
    Premiere conducted by the composer, St. Aidan's Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor, MI, 1997 (and       multiple performances)

Sanctus
  for congregational singing (two part) and piano. 1998. 2’
   Premiere at St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor, 1998 (and multiple performances)

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Give Grace, O God to Your People
  (Cathy Stone), for mixed voices (SATB) and piano. 1998
   Performances:
      St. Aidan's Episcopal Church, conducted by the composer, Ann Arbor, 1998 (and multiple          performances)
   First Unitarian-Univeralist Church, conducted by L.B. Brown, Detroit, 2004
   The Metro Detroit Area Unitarian Universalist Choir Festival, Abha Dearing, conductor;       Birmingham, MI, 2005
   First Unitarian-Univeralist Church, conducted by Todd Ballou, Detroit, 2006
   Church of the Holy Spirit, Livonia, MI, 2006
   Mountain Vista UU Congregation of NW Tucson, conducted by L.B. Brown, Tucson, 2011
   Tucson Unitarian-Univeralist Choir Festival, Tucson, 2011

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The Moths
  (Mary Oliver), for mixed voices (SATB) and chamber orchestra (in progress).

Live Without Fear!
  (Clare of Assisi), for mixed voices (SATB) and organ.  2002. 3’
   Premiere conducted by the composer, St. Aidan's Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor, MI, 2002

Wynken, Blynken and Nod
  (Eugene Field), for unison children’s voices, strings, Orff instruments, percussion and found instruments. 2002.  6’
   Commissioned and premiered by SCORE, Ann Arbor School for the Performing Arts, Lynne Tobin
   and Janet Mattke, conductors, Concordia University; Ann Arbor, 2002

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Through the Darkness Shines the Light
  (Susan McGarry), for mixed voices (SAB) and piano. 2003.  2’
   Premiere conducted by the composer, St. Aidan's Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor, MI, 2003 (and    multiple performances)

Examine Me, O God and Know My Heart
  (Psalm 139), for unison congregational singing and piano or organ, with optional instrumental obbligato. 2004. 2’
   Performances:
      St. Aidan's Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor, MI, 2004 (and multiple performances)
      Northside {Presbyterian Church, Ann Arbor, MI, 2012 (and multiple performances)

Eat this Bread, Drink of this Cup
  (Susan McGarry), for chorus (two part), or  congregational singing, and piano. 2004. 2’
   Premiere at St. Aidan's Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor, MI, 2004 (and multiple                   performances)

The Praising Word
  (John Bennett), for mixed voices (SATB) and piano. 2004. 4’

Pearl Of Great Price
  (Stephen Eddins), for unison congregational singing and piano or organ. 2004.  2’
   Performances:
      St. Aidan's Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor, MI, 2004 (and multiple performances)
      Northside Associated Ministries, Ann Arbor, MI, 2010 (and multiple performances)

The Weaving of Peace
  (anonymous), for mixed voices (SATB). 2004. 2’
   Premiere at St. Aidan's Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor, MI, 2004

Lord, Take My Lips …
  for unison congregational singing and piano or organ.2005. 1’
   Premiere at St. Aidan's Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor, MI, 2005

Fantasia on a Name
(In memory of Matthew Shepard) for mixed voices (SATTB) or men’s voices (TTTBB).  2005. 4’
   Performances:
      Out Loud Chorus, Jon Moore, conductor; Ann Arbor, 2004
      Vox Humana, Lyle H. Brown, conductor; Detroit, 2004

We Two Boys
  (Walt Whitman), for men’s voices (TB) and piano. 2005.  3’

The Lord’s Prayer
  for unison congregational singing and piano. 2005.  2’
   Premiere at St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor, 2005 (and multiple performances)

My God, I Thirst For You 
(Stephen Eddins), for unison congregational singing and piano.  2006.  2’
   Premiere at St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor, 2006 (and multiple performances)

An Aeon’s Easter Morning 
 (Harry Shaefer), for mixed voices (SATB). 2006.  10’

  1. Awake, Sleeper  (Ephesians 5:14)
  2. Animal Sacrifice (Hebrews 9:13-14)
  3. Intend (Philippians 2:5-11)
  4. Religious People  (I Corinthians 1:22-25)
  5. For I Am Convinced  (Romans 8:38-39)

   (Religious People) Premiere by Vox 8ve, Michael Scionti, conductor, Walled Lake, MI, 2006

   Complete Performances:
      St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, Leslie Morley Singers, Ann Arbor, 2006
      Church of the Incarnation, Leslie Morley Singers, Ann Arbor, 2006
      St. Clare’s Episcopal Church, Leslie Morley Singers, Ann Arbor, 2006
      St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Leslie Morley Singers, Ann Arbor, 2006
      Our Shepherd Lutheran Church, Birmingham, MI, 2008

Happy are the Poor 
 (Stephen Eddins), for mixed voices (SATB), and piano, with optional percussion. (in progress)

In the Garden
  (Janet Lamb), for unison voices and congregational singing. 2009. 3’
   Premiere at Northside Nature Habitat Dedication, Ann Arbor, 2009


 

                    
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