Written by Donald Skirvin for baritone and piano, "Through Love's Eyes" sets William Shakespeare's varied commentary about love in four of his plays: A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice,

"There will come soft rains" is from one of Teasdale's last collections of poems, "Flame and Shadow." In this collection, especially in section VIII (which contains five other anti-war poems) Teasdale

This setting of Bliss Carman's poem, "The Ships of Yule," is lively and rhythmic and contains elements of a traditional sea chantey. The music is tonal with lots of harmonic color and forays into related

This evocative and harmonically rich selection for younger choirs is a great learning piece. The piano plays a constantly moving pattern while the voices float above it, like the stars in the winter circle

This work is an ode to those whose lives were well-lived in music. Scored for solo violin and SATB chorus, the setting is direct and accessible, it employs rich harmonies and is constructed with careful

Awakening is complex harmonically although basically tonal and features a tenor solo in the second movement. The focus of the first movement is the joy that comes from finding a kindred soul in a

"Wisdom" movement VIII from "Stars forever while we sleep" explores Sara Teasdale's somewhat ironic observation that "What we have never had remains; It is the things we have that go." She makes this