Commissioned Works

 

Year

Work

Composer

1983

 


"Life Cycle" (a work for band and choir)

  1. Journey
  2. Love
  3. Adventure

Brent Pierce

 

 

1984


"A Posy" (a work for band and choir)

  1. There Is a Lady
  2. Aubade
  3. Folksong

Kevin Thompson

 

 

1985

"Love's Gift" (a work for choir; text by James Agee)

"Fantasy on English Hunting Songs"

Roger Ames

Clare Grundman

 

1986

 


"A Celebration of Three Folk Songs" (a work for choir)

  1. Down By the Riverside
  2. Shenandoah
  3. Pick a Bail o' Cotton

Roger Ames

 

 

 

1988

 


"Three Songs for Honor Choir '88" (a work for choir)

  1. Touch Us Gently Time (text by Procter)
  2. She Walks in Beauty (text by Byron)
  3. How Sweet the Moonlight (text by Shakespeare)

Nelson Monteith

 

 

 

1989

 

"Chansons Innocentes"
(a work for choir; text by e.e. cummings)

"Pageant Royale" (a work for band)

Grayston Ives

Robert Washburn

1993

 


"At the Carnival"
(a work for choir; text by Devonda Holloway)

"Scottisch Fantasy" (a work for band)


Larry Farrow

Jay Kennedy

1995


"Polish Christmas Music"
( a work for band and choir)


Johann De Meij

2000


"Into The Unknown Regions"
( a work for band and choir)
Commissioned for the 25th Anniversary of the AMIS International Honor Band and Choir Festival


Robert Smith

2002


"Arabian Folk Song Suite"
( a work for band and choir)

Shireen Abu Khadar, arr. Paul Hopkins

2003


"Hymn for Nations United" text by W.H.Auden
( a work for band and choir)


Dr. Richard Prior

2004

"U Trau"
( a work for band and choir)

"There is sweet music"
(a work for women's choir)

Christopher Marshall
 

Jon Bailey

 

2005

"Somewhere I have Never Travelled"
text by Dr. Thomas Kroeger
( a work for women'schoir)

Alan J. Higbee

 

2005

Benedicto
text by Edward Abbey

David Brunner