Commissions:
| Piece | Composer | Premiere |
|---|---|---|
| Clangor, Clamour, Clapperclaw | Carol Matthews | July 1996 |
| Drum Talk | Fatu Judy Henderson | May 1998 |
| Cantillations From the Western Porch | Carol Matthews | December 1998 |
| they must dream beauty | Craig Carnahan | December 1998 |
| Remembering | Diane Benjamin | December 1998 |
| Will
the Circle Be Unbroken (jointly commissioned with Denver, Portland and New York City Gay Men's Choruses) |
Buryl Red, arranger | March 1999 |
| Butter
My Tongue
(two other movements are in progress) |
Laura
Karpman
text by Dorothy Allison |
Spring 2000 |
| New
Face
(joint commission with Vox Femina, Los Angeles, and Anna Crusis, Philadelphia) |
Janika
Vandervelde
text by Alice Walker |
Spring 2000 |
| Vase Epiphanies | Diane
Benjamin
text by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg |
Spring 2000 |
|
Sondra the
Solstice Spirit
(joint commission with Crescendo and the Tampa Bay Women's Chorus) |
Eric Lane Barnes | Winter 2000 |
| Beauty Bright
joint commission with Chris Potter |
Bill Douglas
text by William Blake |
December 2001 |
| On Her Decision to Stop Wearing Clothes
joint commission with Synchronicity/A Vancourver Women's Chrorus |
Stephen Smith
text by Mahadeviyakka; translation by Jane Hirschfield |
May 2002 |
| The Human Body | Stephen Smith
text by Walt Whitman |
May 2002 |
| Love After Love | Terry Schlenker
poetry by Derek Walcott |
December 2005 |
For information about
these composers or the commissions, please contact
Sound Circle at scoffee@ecentral.com