Be Near Me is a setting of Canto 50 from the poem In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred Tennyson for unaccompanied mixed choir (SATB) or men’s chorus (TTBB). Duration ca. 5'15".

Published in 1850, the

An orchestra adaptation of Elgar's choral partsong, with the women's choral parts played by single winds and the men's choral parts played by the strings, with a French horn adding color.  1111 1000

A setting for unaccompanied mixed choir (SATB) of the poem by Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), duration 3'15".

Work on the Symphonic Suite was started in the summer of 1946, after composer Dale Dykins returned to the College of Music of Cincinnati following more than four years of military service. In 3

"In the Language of Mediation" was originally composed for viola and piano and dedicated to the memory of Ingrid Buschmann. The solo for this arrangement for chamber orchestra may be played on viola,

"On the Ground Where We Live" for full orchestra (1111 - 3321 - tmp+2 - str) was composed in 2005. Duration: ca. 10'. The piece evokes the sense of walking through the community of an old town or city,

A setting for men's chorus (TTBB) of the poem "To a Friend" by James Fenimore Cooper, Jr., (1892-1918). Captain Cooper was the great-grandson of the novelist. A graduate of Yale, Cooper died of pneumonia at