CHORAL AND VOCAL MUSIC

CHORAL AND VOCAL MUSIC
Choral and vocal music with and without instrumental ensembles

	Dajunso Ma Dor Da Duca Written in 1997. Scored for nine-part chorus. Based on a traditional Romanian folk song. Commissioned by Kitka. World Premiere March 6-8, 2008 by the San Francisco Choral Artists, Saint Gregory of Nyssa Church, San Francisco. Score: 8.5 x 11 Portrait format, 15 pages Available from the composer Price: Score $12.00, $8.00 for each additional copy Shipping $3.95 View the complete score

	Insect Voices Written in 2007. Scored for soprano, flute, violin, cello, percussion and CD playback. Translated Japanese and Korean texts and original text by Brenda Brown. Recorded insect sound source material courtesy of Thomas J. Walker, Professor Emeritus, Entomology, University of Florida. Commissioned for the exhibition Brenda Brown in Situ at the Selby Art Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida. World Premiere performance February 28, 2008, at the Selby Art Gallery, Sarasota. "...a fun, interesting, and at times moving reflection on those highly musical natural [insect] sounds, combined with apt poetry selections from the United States and the Far East." - San Francisco Classical Voice Score: 8.5 x 11 Portrait format, 45 pages Available from the composer Price: Score $15.00 Set of Parts and performance CD $45.00 Shipping $3.95 View the score of the second movement

	Letters and the Weather of Six Mornings Written in 1984. Eight songs to poems of Jane Cooper, for soprano and piano. Premiered May 12, 1984, Rollins Chapel, Dartmouth College, with Katharine DeBoer soprano and Kathryn Southworth piano. "Richard Festinger's selectivity and focus on the core idea similarly produced the finest of the eight songs in his cycle Letters and the Weather of Six Mornings (poems by Jane Cooper). Festinger's music found its own way of extending the elegant character of Cooper's concentrated poems while escaping the regularity of their design... revealing a touching sensitivity." - San Francisco Chronicle Score: 8.5 x 11 Portrait format, 37 pages Available from the composer Price: Score $15.00 each Shipping $3.95

	Song: Beauty is a Shell from the Sea Written in 1981. Scored for SATB chorus, flute, oboe, bass clarinet, horn, violin 1, violin 2, viola, cello, harp and guitar. Text by William Carlos Williams. World Premiere April 15, 1981, Sonar Plexus series, Hertz Hall, University of California, Berkeley, various artists. Score: 8.5 x 11 Portrait format, 50 pages Available from the composer Price: Score $30.00 Set of Parts $105.00 Shipping $3.95

	Spring Ice Written in 2010. Commissioned by Brenda Brown. Premiere performance March 31, 2010, at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, by soprano Sarah Kirsch and violinist Oleg Pokhanovsky. Score: 8.5 x 11 Portrait format, 15 pages Available from the composer Price: Score $25.00 Shipping $3.95

	The Coming of Age Written in 2003. Scored for soprano, flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano. Texts by Denis Johnson. Commissioned by the Mary Flagler Cary Trust for the Works and Process series at the Guggenheim Museum of New York. World Premiere May 18-19, 2003, at the Guggenheim Museum, with Amy Burton, soprano, and Bradley Lubman, conductor. Score: 8.5 x 11 Portrait format, 60 pages Available from the composer Price: Score $20.00 Set of Parts $60.00 Shipping $3.95 View the score of the third movement Listen to the third movement

	The Locust Tree Written in 2007. A cappella chorus SATB chorus. Texts by William Carlos Williams. Commissioned by Volti. World premiere Nov. 3-4, 2007, St. Mark's Lutheran Church, San Francisco, with Robert Geary conducting. "Williams' objectivist text, with its characteristic one or two words per line, was well-matched by a syllabic text-setting that emphasized the power of each individual word of the poem. Through contrasts in color, range, and dynamics, Festinger drew my attention to the way in which each of Williams' words played a role in shaping the meaning of the poem." - San Francisco Classical Voice Score: 8.5 x 11 Portrait format, 16 pages Available from the composer Price: Score $12.00, $8.00 for each additional copy Shipping $3.95 View the complete score Listen to the first movement, "Little Round Moon"

	To Be Sung on the Water Written in 2006. A capella SATB chorus. World Premiere June 6, 2006, the First Unitarian Curch of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, California. Score: 8.5 x 11 Portrait format, 2 pages Available from the composer Price: Score $5.00 Additional scores $2.50 Each Shipping $3.95 View the complete score

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