The Green Earth

Inspired by Pablo Neruda’s poem “Ode to the Color Green” and “Tomo Gésheé Rimpoché’s Vision” from The Way of the White Clouds by Lama Anagarika Govinda. 25 min., 2007

 

 

Iconography

Layered piano cycle that draws on The Twelve Icons, more than eight hours of music composed in 1993-94, 48 min., 2007

 

Meditations & Elegies

Meditations is a cycle of twelve works expressing a transcendent spiritual presence through music; Elegies considers Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem cycle, The Duino Elegies, to ask “Who, if I cried out, would heed me admid the host of the Angels?” 58 min., 1996-1997

CD self-published in 1999.

 

Precinct. Rochester

A symphonic poem inspired by Amy Lowell’s “Precinct. Rochester” (Sword Blades and Poppy Seed). 19 min., 2013

 

The Return of Orpheus

A mirror of Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Sonnets to Orpheus.” 18 min., 2008.

 

Rumi Dancing

Inspired by “The Turn: Dance in Your Blood,” from The Essential Rumi. 29 min., 2004.