For Your Consideration ... "Companion Pieces"

During my time as composer in residence for the New Hampshire Master Chorale, I always tried to maximize use of the ensemble’s resources, including writing for accompanying ensembles that were already going to be present for other works on the program. I always think of these as “companion pieces,” and I hope you’ll consider them if you’re thinking of programming the other works that use the same forces. Three that come to mind are:

• My setting of Jame’s Thurber’s Fable for our Time “The Unicorn in the Garden,” which was programmed with Menotti’s The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore
• My work Solstices, which was programmed with the Concert Selections version of Bernstein’s Mass
• My settings of some poems from Herman Melville’s Civil War collection Battle-Pieces, which were programmed with Lee Hoiby’s Last Letter Home

Click on the titles above to get to the entries about these pieces in my catalog, including links to recordings of the works.