Vocal and Choral Music

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From the Rubaiyát of Omar Kháyám (2009) can be heard at Instant Encore under the “Curtis on Tour” page.

You can also hear my Kaddish (2006) at Instant Encore.

“The Choir” was written for conductor Robert DeCormier for the Seventieth Anniversary concert of the Vermont Symphony and chorus. It is from a text by Vermont poet Gallway Kinnell.
Duration: ca. 3 minutes

“The New Colossus” was written for conductor Judith Clurman and the Todi music singers. It is a patriotic anthem setting the poem by Emma Lazarus from the Statue of Liberty. The poem welcomes anyone and everyone (the “wretched refuse”) to America and seemed an appropriate remembrance of September 11th; the event it was commissioned to commemorate.
Duration: ca. 3 minutes

The Choir (2004)
The New Colossus (2002)
(available at instantencore.com)

The “Bucks County Country Day Songs” (2000) are some of the works of which I am most proud! They were written for the children’s chorus of the Bucks Country Day school using poetry of 2nd graders (I picked two of the submitted poems--one by Emma Briggs and one by Kyle Brooks.).

It was reported to me that they broke into “I Believe Cats are the Highest Jumpers” on the bus--what is cooler than that for a composer?

Things to do in a Park.mp3
Cats Are the Highest Jumpers