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!width="45"|Date
!width="250"|Title
!width="250"|Text
!width="200"|Orchestration
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| Opera || align=center|2000 || align=center|''[[Dead Man Walking (opera)|Dead Man Walking]]'' || Libretto by [[Terrence McNally]] || An opera in two acts || Based on the [[Dead Man Walking (book)|novel of the same name]] by [[Sister Helen Prejean]]. Commissioned by [[San Francisco Opera]].
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| Opera || align=center|2000 || align=center|''Again'' || Libretto by Kevin Gregory || Operatic scene for four solo voices (soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and baritone) with chamber orchestra || Commissioned by the EOS Orchestra (Jonathan Sheffer, music director).
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| Opera || align=center|2003 || align=center|''[[The End of the Affair (opera)|The End of the Affair]]'' || Libretto by Heather McDonald || An opera in two acts || Based on the [[The End of the Affair|novel of the same name]] by [[Graham Greene (writer)|Graham Greene]]. Commissioned by [[Houston Grand Opera]]. Revised in 2004-2005.
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| Opera || align=center|2005 || align=center|''At the Statue of Venus'' || Libretto by [[Terrence McNally]] || A musical scene for soprano and piano || Commissioned by [[Opera Colorado]].
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| Opera || align=center|2006 || align=center|''To Hell and Back'' || Libretto by [[Gene Scheer]] || An opera in one act for soprano, Broadway soprano and period instrument orchestra || Commissioned by [[Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra]].
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| Opera || align=center|2008 || align=center|''[[Three Decembers]]'' || Libretto by [[Gene Scheer]] || An opera in one act || Based on [[Terrence McNally]]’s original script, "Some Christmas Letters." Commissioned by the [[Houston Grand Opera]] and co-commissioned by the [[San Francisco Opera]] in association with Cal Performances at [[University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley]].
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| Opera || align=center|2010 || align=center|''[[Moby-Dick (opera)|Moby-Dick]]'' || Libretto by [[Gene Scheer]] || An opera in two acts || Based on the [[Moby-Dick|novel of the same name]] by [[Herman Melville]]. Commissioned by [[Dallas Opera]], [[San Francisco Opera]], [[Calgary Opera]], [[San Diego Opera]] and the [[State Opera of South Australia]].
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| Opera || align=center|2012 || align=center|''Another Sunrise'' || Libretto by [[Gene Scheer]] || Dramatic scene for soprano, clarinet, violin, cello, bass, and piano || Commissioned by Music of Remembrance (Mina Miller, artistic director)
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| Opera || align=center|2013 || align=center|''Out of Darkness'' || Libretto by [[Gene Scheer]] || Opera in three parts for soprano, mezzo-soprano, baritone, actor, with flute, clarinet, violin, cello, bass and piano || Opera in three parts:
# Another Sunrise
# Farewell, Auschwitz
# For a Look or a Touch
Commissioned by Music of Remembrance (Mina Miller, artistic director). Each part received its premiere individually by Music of Remembrance.
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| Opera || align=center|2014 || align=center|''The Radio Hour'' || Libretto by [[Gene Scheer]] || Chamber opera for chamber choir, silent actress, flute, clarinet, alto sax, percussion, piano, violin, cello, and bass || Commissioned by [[Pacific Chorale]], [[VocalEssence]], [[Conspirare]], and [[The Philadelphia Singers]].
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| Opera || align=center|2015 || align=center|''Great Scott'' || Libretto by [[Terrence McNally]] || An opera in two acts || Based on an original story by [[Terrence McNally]]. Commissioned by [[Dallas Opera]] and co-produced with [[San Diego Opera]].
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| Vocal || align=center|1992 || align=center|''Trois poemes de interieurs de Rainer Maria Rilke'' || Text by [[Rainer Maria Rilke]] || For baritone and piano ||
# Portrait intérieure
# La porteuse de fleurs
# Epilogue: C’est pour t’avoir vue
Unpublished.
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| Vocal || align=center|1995 || align=center|''Encountertenor'' || Lyrics by John Hall || For countertenor and piano ||
# Countertenor’s Conundrum
# The trouble with trebles in trousers … (Pitch can be a bitch!)
# A Gift to Share
Commissioned by Brian Asawa.
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| Vocal || align=center|1995 || align=center|''Three Folk Songs'' || Traditional || For mezzo-soprano and piano ||
# Barb'ry Allen
# He's Gone Away
# The Leather-Winged Bat
Dedicated to [[Frederica von Stade]].
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| Vocal || align=center|1995 || align=center|''I shall not live in vain'' || Poetry by [[Emily Dickinson]] || For mezzo-soprano and piano, and for mezzo-soprano solo with SA chorus, hand bells and piano || Song originally written in 1995, expanded and arranged for mezzo-soprano with SA chorus, hand bells and piano in 1998.
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| Vocal || align=center|1996 || align=center|''On the Road to Christmas'' || Texts by [[A.E. Housman]], [[Frederica von Stade]], [[John Jacob Niles]], [[Emily Dickinson]] and Jake Heggie || For mezzo-soprano and string orchestra ||
# The Night is Freezing Fast (A.E. Housman)
# The Car Ride to Christmas (von Stade)
# Good King Merrily on High (traditional)
# I wonder as I wander (Niles)
# The Road to Bethlehem (Dickinson)
# And then the Setting Sun (von Stade)
# Christmas Time of Year (Heggie)
Commissioned by the [[New Century Chamber Orchestra]].
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| Vocal || align=center|1996 || align=center|''My true love hath my heart'' || Poetry by [[Sir Philip Sydney]] || For soprano, cello and piano || Also arranged as a duet for soprano, mezzo, cello and piano.
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| Vocal || align=center|1996 || align=center|''Thoughts Unspoken'' || Lyrics by John Hall || For baritone and piano ||
# A learning experience over coffee…
# You enter my thoughts
# To speak of love
# Unspoken thoughts at bedtime
Commissioned by Earle Patriarco.
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| Vocal || align=center|1997 || align=center|''Natural Selection'' || Poetry by Gini Savage || For soprano and piano ||
# Creation
# Animal Passion
# Alas! Alack!
# Indian Summer – Blue
# Connection
Music and poetry composed for Nicolle Foland.
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| Vocal || align=center|1997 || align=center|''So Many Notes!'' || Text by Jake Heggie || For 11 singers and orchestra || Commissioned by [[San Francisco Opera]] to celebrate its 75th Season and the reopening of the War Memorial Opera House. Unpublished.
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| Vocal || align=center|1997 || align=center|''Paper Wings'' || Lyrics by [[Frederica von Stade]] || For mezzo-soprano and piano, and for mezzo-soprano and full orchestra ||
# Bedtime Story
# Paper Wings
# Mitten Smitten
# A Route to the Sky
Commissioned by [[Frederica von Stade]] and dedicated to her daughter, Lisa Elkus. Orchestration commissioned by the [[Louisville Orchestra]] in 2000.
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| Vocal || align=center|1998 || align=center|''Before the Storm'' || Poetry by Judyth Walker, [[Emily Dickinson]], [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]] and [[Dorothy Parker]] || For mezzo-soprano, cello and piano ||
# Before the Storm (Walker)
# It sounded as if the streets were running (Dickinson)
# What lips my lips have kissed (Millay)
# The Thin Edge (Parker)
Dedicated to [[Zheng Cao]]. Three songs based on works written in 1986, revised in 1998.
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| Vocal || align=center|1998 || align=center|''Songs to the Moon'' || Poetry by Vachal Lindsay || For mezzo-soprano and piano ||
# Prologue: Once More – To Gloriana
# Euclid
# The Haughty Snail-King
# What the Rattlesnake Said
# The Moon’s the North Wind’s Cooky (What the little girl said)
# What the Scarecrow Said
# What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said
# Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be (What Grandpa told the children)
Commissioned for [[Frederica von Stade]] by MUSIC ACCORD.
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| Vocal || align=center|1998 || align=center|''Everyone Sang'' || Poetry by Siegfried Sassoon || For baritone and piano || Unpublished.
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| Vocal || align=center|1999 || align=center|''Song and Sonnets to Ophelia'' || Text by [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]] and Jake Heggie || For soprano and piano ||
# The Spring is Arisen; Ophelia’s Song (Heggie)
# Women have loved before as I love now (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
# Not in a silver casket cool with pearls (Millay)
# Spring (Millay)
Composed for Peggy Kriha-Dye.
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| Vocal || align=center|1999 || align=center|''Patterns'' || Poetry by [[Amy Lowell]] ||For mezzo-soprano, SSAA chorus and piano || Commissioned by [[San Francisco Girls Chorus]] to celebrate its 20th anniversary.
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| Vocal || align=center|1999 || align=center|''From Emily's Garden'' || Poetry by [[Emily Dickinson]] || For soprano, flute, violin, cello, and piano || Unpublished.
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| Vocal || align=center|2000 || align=center|''Of Gods and Cats'' || Poetry by [[Gavin Geoffrey Dillard]] || For mezzo-soprano and piano ||
# In the beginning …
# Once upon a universe
Commissioned by Vija Nadai.
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| Vocal || align=center|2000 || align=center|''How Well I Knew The Light'' || Poetry by [[Emily Dickinson]] || For soprano and piano ||
# Ample Make This Bed
# The Sun Kept Setting
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| Vocal || align=center|2000 || align=center|''Eve-Song'' || Poetry by Philip Littell || For soprano and piano ||
# My name
# Even
# Good
# Listen
# Snake
# Woe to Man
# The Wound
# The Farm
Commissioned by James Schwabacher.
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| Vocal || align=center|2001 || align=center|''The Starry Night'' || Poetry by [[Ann Sexton]], [[Emily Dickinson]], and [[A. E. Housman]], with texts by [[Vincent Van Gogh]] || For mezzo-soprano and piano || Commissioned for mezzo-soprano [[Kristine Jepson]] by Evolutions in Song.
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| Vocal || align=center|2002 || align=center|''A Great Hope Fell: Songs from Civil War'' || Texts by [[Maya Angelou]], [[Paul Laurence Dunbar]], [[Emily Dickinson]], [[Stephen Foster]] and others || For baritone and chamber orchestra || Commissioned by the Eos Orchestra (Jonathan Sheffer, conductor) for baritone Gordon Hawkins. Unpublished.
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| Vocal || align=center|2002 || align=center|''The Deepest Desire'' || Text by [[Sister Helen Prejean]] || For mezzo-soprano and piano, and for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra ||
# The Call; More is required; Love
# I catch on fire
# The deepest desire
# Primary colors
Commissioned by [[Bravo! Vail|Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival]]. Orchestration commissioned by the [[St. Paul Chamber Orchestra]] in 2005.
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| Vocal || align=center|2004 || align=center|''Some Times of Day'' || Text by [[Raymond Carver]] || For mezzo-soprano, violin, cello and piano ||
# The Minuet
# Simple
# The Best Time of the Day
Commissioned by the Harmida Trio.
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| Vocal || align=center|2004 || align=center|''Winter Roses'' || Poetry by Charlene Baldridge, [[Emily Dickinson]], [[Frederica von Stade]] and [[Raymond Carver]] || For mezzo-soprano, string quintet, wind quintet and piano ||
Prologue: Winter Roses (Baldridge)
I. Two Birds
:1. The Wren (Baldridge)
:2. The Robin (Dickinson)
II. Three Shades (in memoriam C.v.S.)
:3. A Hero (von Stade)
:4. Sleeping (Carver)
:5. To My Dad (von Stade)
III. Looking West
:6. Sweet Light (Carver)
Epilogue: Late Fragment (Carver)
Commissioned by Richard and Luci Janssen for Camerata Pacifica.
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| Vocal || align=center|2004 || align=center|''Vanity (blah blah me)'' || Text by Jake Heggie || For soprano and piano, and for soprano, clarinet, cello, bass, piano and percussion || Commissioned by [[Carnegie Hall]] for [[Audra McDonald]] as part of a new cycle, “The Seven Deadly Sins” (also featuring compositions contributed by [[Michael John LaChiusa]], [[Stephen Flaherty]], [[Ricky Ian Gordon]] and others).
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| Vocal || align=center|2004 || align=center|''Grow Old Along With Me!'' || Poetry by [[Robert Browning]] || For baritone and piano || Composed as a gift for baritone Robert Orth.
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| Vocal || align=center|2005 || align=center|''Statuesque'' || Text by [[Gene Scheer]] || For mezzo-soprano and piano; also, with chamber orchestra accompaniment ||
# Henry Moore: Reclining Figure of Elmwood
# Pablo Picasso: Head of a Woman, 1932
# Hapshetsut: The Divine Potter
# Alberto Giacommetti: Standing Woman #2
# Winged Victory: We’re Through
Commissioned by [[University of Kansas]] at Lawrence for mezzo-soprano [[Joyce Castle]].
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| Vocal || align=center|2005 || align=center|''Here and Gone'' || Poetry by [[A.E. Housman]] and Vachal Lindsay || For tenor and baritone with violin, viola, cello and piano ||
# The Farms of Home (Housman)
# In Praise of Songs That Die (Lindsay)
# Stars (Housman)
# The Factory Window Song (Lindsay)
# In the Morning (Housman)
# Because I Liked You Better (Housman)
# The Half-Moon Westers Low (Housman)
Commissioned by Welz Kaufman and the [[Ravinia Festival]] for the Stearns Institute for Young Artists.
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| Vocal || align=center|2005 || align=center|''The Other Other Woman'' || Lyrics by Mark Campbell || For male voice and piano || From ''Songs from an Unmade Bed'', a stage work that features 18 songs by various composers with lyrics by Mark Campbell.
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| Vocal || align=center|2007 || align=center|''Facing Forward/Looking Back'' || Poetry by Charlene Baldridge, [[Eugenia Zukerman]], [[Raymond Carver]], [[Armistead Maupin]] and Jake Heggie || For soprano and mezzo-soprano with piano || Commissioned by Welz Kaufman and the [[Ravinia Festival]] for the Stearns Institute for Young Artists.
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| Vocal || align=center|2007 || align=center|''Final monologue from [[Master Class (play)|Master Class]]'' || Text by [[Terrence McNally]] || For mezzo-soprano and piano || Composed for mezzo-soprano [[Joyce DiDonato]] to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the [[Merola Opera Program]] and to remember the late James Schwabacher.
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| Vocal || align=center|2008 || align=center|''Friendly Persuasions: Homage to Poulenc'' || Poetry by [[Gene Scheer]] || For tenor and piano ||
# Wanda Landowska
# Pierre Bernac
# Raymonde Linossier
# Paul Eluard
Based on four transformative friendships and meetings in Francis Poulenc’s life.
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| Vocal || align=center|2011 || align=center|''Pieces of 9/11: Memories from Houston'' || Texts by [[Gene Scheer]] || For soprano, baritone and girl soprano (age 14-18) with flute, guitar, violin and cello ||
# Prelude; Lauren
# Lessons
# Phone Calls
# That Moment On
# Beyond
# An Open Book
Commissioned by [[Houston Grand Opera]].
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| Vocal || align=center|2011 || align=center|''A Question of Light'' || Texts by [[Gene Scheer]] || For baritone and piano ||
# The Light of Coincidences (Magritte)
# Eccentric Flint (Maya c. AD 600-900)
# Yellow Flowers in a Vase (Caillebotte)
# Place de la Concorde (Mondrian)
# El Hombre (Tamayo)
# Watch (Murphy)
Commissioned by [[Dallas Opera]] in association with the [[Dallas Museum of Art]] for baritone [[Nathan Gunn]].
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| Vocal || align=center|2011 || align=center|''The Years Roll By'' || Text by Charles Hart || For soprano and mezzo-soprano with piano || Composed for soprano [[Kiri Te Kanawa]] and mezzo-soprano [[Frederica von Stade]].
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| Vocal || align=center|2011 || align=center|''The Breaking Waves'' || Text by [[Sister Helen Prejean]] || For mezzo-soprano and piano || Commissioned by [[Carnegie Hall]] for mezzo-soprano [[Joyce DiDonato]] and pianist David Zobel.
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| Vocal || align=center|2012 || align=center|''Farewell, Auschwitz'' || Texts adapted by [[Gene Scheer]] || For soprano, mezzo-soprano, baritone and piano, or with clarinet, violin, cello, bass, and piano ||
# Prologue: For Maria
# Soldiers
# Diamonds
# In the Cards
# Irenka
# Miss Ziutka
# The Sun and the Skylark
# Farewell, Auschwitz
Commissioned by Music of Remembrance (Mina Miller, Artistic Director).
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| Vocal || align=center|2012 || align=center|''Camille Claudel: Into the Fire'' || Text by [[Gene Scheer]] || For mezzo-soprano and string quartet ||
# Rodin
# La Valse
# Shakuntala
# La petite châtelaine
# The Gossips
# L’age mûr
# Epilogue: Jessie Lipscomb visits Camille Claudel, Montdevergues Asylum, 1929
Commissioned by San Francisco Performances.
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| Vocal || align=center|2012 || align=center|''Of Laughter and Farewell'' || Poetry by Vachal Lindsay || For tenor or baritone and piano ||
# By The Spring, At Sunset
# Under the Blessing of Your Psyche Wings
Commissioned by [[Ravinia Festival]] (2012) and [[Opera America]] (2013).
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| Vocal || align=center|2013 || align=center|''From "The Book of Nightmares"'' || Poetry by [[Galway Kinnell]] || For soprano, cello and piano ||
# You Scream
# In A Restaurant
# My Father’s Eyes
# Back You Go
Composed for soprano Lisa Delan.
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| Vocal || align=center|2013 || align=center|''For a Look or a Touch'' (song cycle) || Libretto by [[Gene Scheer]] || For baritone and piano, or baritone with flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano || Originally commissioned by Music of Remembrance as a stage work, the song cycle version was created in 2013.
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| Vocal || align=center|2014 || align=center|''Newer Every Day: Songs for Kiri'' || Poetry by [[Emily Dickinson]] || For soprano and piano ||
# Silence
# I’m Nobody! Who are You?
# Fame
# That I did always love
# Goodnight
Commissioned by the [[Ravinia Festival]] in celebration of Dame [[Kiri Te Kanawa]]’s 70th Birthday.
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| Vocal || align=center|2015 || align=center|''The Work at Hand'' || Poetry by Laura Morefield || For mezzo-soprano, cello and piano; also for mezzo-soprano, cello and orchestra || Three symphonic songs based on poetry by the late Laura Morefield (1961-2011). Commissioned for mezzo-soprano [[Jamie Barton]] and cellist Anne Martindale Williams by [[Carnegie Hall]] and the [[Pittsburgh Symphony]].
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| Orchestral || align=center|2001 || align=center|"Cut Time" Variations || || For piano and chamber orchestra || Commissioned by the Eos Orchestra (Jonathan Sheffer, conductor) for pianist [[Jeremy Denk]].
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| Orchestral || align=center|2002 || align=center| Orchestral episodes from ''Dead Man Walking'' || || For full orchestra || Commissioned by the [[Dallas Symphony]] (Andrew Litton, music director).
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| Orchestral || align=center|2002 || align=center| ''Holy the Firm:'' an essay for cello and orchestra || Inspired by the [[Annie Dillard#Holy the Firm|novel of the same name]] by [[Annie Dillard]] || For solo cello and orchestra || Commissioned by the Oakland East Bay Symphony (Michael Morgan, conductor) for Emil Miland, cellist.
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| Orchestral || align=center|2013 || align=center| Ahab Symphony || Texts by [[Herman Melville]] (from "[[Moby-Dick]]") and [[W.H. Auden]] (from his poem, “Herman Melville”) || For tenor solo, SATB choir and full orchestra || Commissioned by the [[University of North Texas]].
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| Choral || align=center|1987 || align=center| ''Faith Disquiet'' || Poetry by [[Emily Dickinson]] || For SATB Chorus (a cappella) ||
# “Why do I love” You, Sir?
# What if I say I shall not wait!
# If you were coming in the fall
Commissioned by the UCLA Choir (William Hatcher, conductor).
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| Choral || align=center|1999 || align=center| ''Anna Madrigal Remembers'' || Text by [[Armistead Maupin]] || For mezzo-soprano and 12 solo male voices || Commissioned by [[Chanticleer]]. Unpublished.
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| Choral || align=center|2001 || align=center| ''My Grandmother's Love Letters'' || Poetry by [[Hart Crane]] || For SATB Chorus and orchestra || Commissioned by the [[Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia]] (Donald Nally, artistic director).
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| Choral || align=center|2003 || align=center| ''He will gather us around'' from ''[[Dead Man Walking (opera)|Dead Man Walking]]'' || Libretto by [[Terrence McNally]] || For SATB Chorus (a cappella) || An arrangement of the original hymn tune from the opera, ''[[Dead Man Walking (opera)|Dead Man Walking]]''.
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| Choral || align=center|2006 || align=center| ''Seeking Higher Ground: Bruce Springsteen Rocks New Orleans, April 30, 2006'' || Text by [[Sister Helen Prejean]] || For double SATB chorus with full orchestra || Commissioned by [[Pacific Chorale]].
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| Choral || align=center|2011 || align=center| ''A Hundred Thousand Stars'' from ''A Look or a Touch'' || Text by [[Gene Scheer]] || For TTBB Chorus and piano, or with flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano || This chorus was added to ''For a Look or a Touch'' when the original stage work was expanded for the Seattle Men’s Chorus in 2011.
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| Choral || align=center|2012 || align=center| ''Six Christmas Traditions'' || Lyrics by Mark Campbell || For SATB choir with piano, flute and oboe || Commissioned by Renaissance City Choirs (Pittsburgh, PA).
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| Choral || align=center|2013 || align=center| ''For a Look or a Touch'' (choral) || Libretto by Gene Scheer || For baritone, men’s chorus, actor, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion || Originally commissioned by Music of Remembrance, this second incarnation was commissioned by the Seattle Men’s Chorus and The Boston Gay Men’s Chorus.
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| Choral || align=center|2013 || align=center| ''The Narrow Bridge'' || Text by Pamela Stewart || For TTBB Chorus || Final movement of ''Tyler's Suite'', featuring compositions by [[Nolan Gasser]], [[Stephen Schwartz]], [[Ann Hampton Callaway]], [[John Corigliano]], [[John Bucchino]], and Lance Horne. Commissioned by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus.
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| Choral || align=center|2015 || align=center| ''Stop This Day and Night with Me'' || Poetry from [[Walt Whitman]]’s "[[Leaves of Grass]]" || For SATB chorus (a cappella) || Composed for [[The King’s Singers]] as The Raymond W. Brock Commission for the [[American Choral Directors Association]].
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| Instrumental || align=center|1982 || align=center| Indiana Bound || || For piano || Unpublished.
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| Instrumental || align=center|1983 || align=center| Inishfallen || || Suite for piano || Unpublished.
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| Instrumental || align=center|1984 || align=center| Lugalla || || For string quartet || Unpublished.
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| Instrumental || align=center|1985 || align=center| Glengariff Trio || || For violin, cello and piano || Unpublished.
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| Instrumental || align=center|1985 || align=center| Inishfree || || For two pianos || Unpublished.
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| Instrumental || align=center|1986 || align=center| Skellig Variations || || For two pianos || Unpublished.
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| Instrumental || align=center|1987 || align=center| Rhosymedre || || For two pianos || Unpublished.
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| Instrumental || align=center|1988 || align=center| ''One Day at the Duck Pond'': illustrations with music to write stories to (children's book) || Drawings and music by Jake Heggie || For piano || Unpublished.
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| Instrumental || align=center|1990 || align=center| Divertimento || || For two pianos || Unpublished.
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| Instrumental || align=center|1991 || align=center| Christmas Nocturnes || || For piano ||
# Est is ein Ros’
# Coventry Carol
# O Come, Emanuel
# The Holly and the Ivy
# I Saw Three Ships
# I Wonder as I Wander
# Silent Night
Arrangement by Jake Heggie. Unpublished.
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| Instrumental || align=center|1996 || align=center| Coward/Cabaret || || For cello and piano ||
# Mad About the Boy
# Someday I’ll Find You
# Meme les anges
Music by [[Noel Coward]], arrangement by Jake Heggie. Unpublished.
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| Instrumental || align=center|2010 || align=center| Fury of Light || Inspired by [[Mary Oliver]]'s poem, ''Sunrise'' || For flute and piano; also for flute and chamber orchestra || Commissioned for flutist [[Carol Wincenc]] by Linda & Stuart Nelson. Orchestration created in 2010.
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| Instrumental || align=center|2012 || align=center| Orcas Island Ferry || || Suite for violin/viola and piano ||
# Crossing
# On and Off
# The Shoreline Lullabye
# Whistling and Listening
# In Tows and Threes (Motor Rhythm)
Commissioned by the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival.
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| Instrumental || align=center|2012 || align=center| Soliloquy || || For flute and piano || A setting of the song ''Beyond'' (from ''Pieces of 9/11'') commissioned by Camerata Pacifica (Adrian Spence, artistic director).' |
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+This is a '''list of compositions by [[Jake Heggie]]''' sorted by genre, date of composition, and title.
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+!width="95"|Genre
+!width="45"|Date
+!width="250"|Title
+!width="250"|Text
+!width="200"|Orchestration
+!width="35%;"|Notes
+|-valign="top"
+| Opera || align=center|2000 || align=center|''[[Dead Man Walking (opera)|Dead Man Walking]]'' || Libretto by [[Terrence McNally]] || An opera in two acts || Based on the [[Dead Man Walking (book)|novel of the same name]] by [[Sister Helen Prejean]]. Commissioned by [[San Francisco Opera]].
+|-valign="top"
+| Opera || align=center|2000 || align=center|''Again'' || Libretto by Kevin Gregory || Operatic scene for four solo voices (soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and baritone) with chamber orchestra || Commissioned by the EOS Orchestra (Jonathan Sheffer, music director).
+|-valign="top"
+| Opera || align=center|2003 || align=center|''[[The End of the Affair (opera)|The End of the Affair]]'' || Libretto by Heather McDonald || An opera in two acts || Based on the [[The End of the Affair|novel of the same name]] by [[Graham Greene (writer)|Graham Greene]]. Commissioned by [[Houston Grand Opera]]. Revised in 2004-2005.
+|-valign="top"
+| Opera || align=center|2005 || align=center|''At the Statue of Venus'' || Libretto by [[Terrence McNally]] || A musical scene for soprano and piano || Commissioned by [[Opera Colorado]].
+|-valign="top"
+| Opera || align=center|2006 || align=center|''To Hell and Back'' || Libretto by [[Gene Scheer]] || An opera in one act for soprano, Broadway soprano and period instrument orchestra || Commissioned by [[Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra]].
+|-valign="top"
+| Opera || align=center|2008 || align=center|''[[Three Decembers]]'' || Libretto by [[Gene Scheer]] || An opera in one act || Based on [[Terrence McNally]]’s original script, "Some Christmas Letters." Commissioned by the [[Houston Grand Opera]] and co-commissioned by the [[San Francisco Opera]] in association with Cal Performances at [[University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley]].
+|-valign="top"
+| Opera || align=center|2010 || align=center|''[[Moby-Dick (opera)|Moby-Dick]]'' || Libretto by [[Gene Scheer]] || An opera in two acts || Based on the [[Moby-Dick|novel of the same name]] by [[Herman Melville]]. Commissioned by [[Dallas Opera]], [[San Francisco Opera]], [[Calgary Opera]], [[San Diego Opera]] and the [[State Opera of South Australia]].
+|-valign="top"
+| Opera || align=center|2012 || align=center|''Another Sunrise'' || Libretto by [[Gene Scheer]] || Dramatic scene for soprano, clarinet, violin, cello, bass, and piano || Commissioned by Music of Remembrance (Mina Miller, artistic director)
+|-valign="top"
+| Opera || align=center|2013 || align=center|''Out of Darkness'' || Libretto by [[Gene Scheer]] || Opera in three parts for soprano, mezzo-soprano, baritone, actor, with flute, clarinet, violin, cello, bass and piano || Opera in three parts:
+# Another Sunrise
+# Farewell, Auschwitz
+# For a Look or a Touch
+
+Commissioned by Music of Remembrance (Mina Miller, artistic director). Each part received its premiere individually by Music of Remembrance.
+|-valign="top"
+| Opera || align=center|2014 || align=center|''The Radio Hour'' || Libretto by [[Gene Scheer]] || Chamber opera for chamber choir, silent actress, flute, clarinet, alto sax, percussion, piano, violin, cello, and bass || Commissioned by [[Pacific Chorale]], [[VocalEssence]], [[Conspirare]], and [[The Philadelphia Singers]].
+|-valign="top"
+| Opera || align=center|2015 || align=center|''Great Scott'' || Libretto by [[Terrence McNally]] || An opera in two acts || Based on an original story by [[Terrence McNally]]. Commissioned by [[Dallas Opera]] and co-produced with [[San Diego Opera]].
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|1992 || align=center|''Trois poemes de interieurs de Rainer Maria Rilke'' || Text by [[Rainer Maria Rilke]] || For baritone and piano ||
+# Portrait intérieure
+# La porteuse de fleurs
+# Epilogue: C’est pour t’avoir vue
+
+Unpublished.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|1995 || align=center|''Encountertenor'' || Lyrics by John Hall || For countertenor and piano ||
+# Countertenor’s Conundrum
+# The trouble with trebles in trousers … (Pitch can be a bitch!)
+# A Gift to Share
+
+Commissioned by Brian Asawa.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|1995 || align=center|''Three Folk Songs'' || Traditional || For mezzo-soprano and piano ||
+# Barb'ry Allen
+# He's Gone Away
+# The Leather-Winged Bat
+
+Dedicated to [[Frederica von Stade]].
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|1995 || align=center|''I shall not live in vain'' || Poetry by [[Emily Dickinson]] || For mezzo-soprano and piano, and for mezzo-soprano solo with SA chorus, hand bells and piano || Song originally written in 1995, expanded and arranged for mezzo-soprano with SA chorus, hand bells and piano in 1998.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|1996 || align=center|''On the Road to Christmas'' || Texts by [[A.E. Housman]], [[Frederica von Stade]], [[John Jacob Niles]], [[Emily Dickinson]] and Jake Heggie || For mezzo-soprano and string orchestra ||
+# The Night is Freezing Fast (A.E. Housman)
+# The Car Ride to Christmas (von Stade)
+# Good King Merrily on High (traditional)
+# I wonder as I wander (Niles)
+# The Road to Bethlehem (Dickinson)
+# And then the Setting Sun (von Stade)
+# Christmas Time of Year (Heggie)
+
+Commissioned by the [[New Century Chamber Orchestra]].
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|1996 || align=center|''My true love hath my heart'' || Poetry by [[Sir Philip Sydney]] || For soprano, cello and piano || Also arranged as a duet for soprano, mezzo, cello and piano.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|1996 || align=center|''Thoughts Unspoken'' || Lyrics by John Hall || For baritone and piano ||
+# A learning experience over coffee…
+# You enter my thoughts
+# To speak of love
+# Unspoken thoughts at bedtime
+
+Commissioned by Earle Patriarco.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|1997 || align=center|''Natural Selection'' || Poetry by Gini Savage || For soprano and piano ||
+# Creation
+# Animal Passion
+# Alas! Alack!
+# Indian Summer – Blue
+# Connection
+
+Music and poetry composed for Nicolle Foland.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|1997 || align=center|''So Many Notes!'' || Text by Jake Heggie || For 11 singers and orchestra || Commissioned by [[San Francisco Opera]] to celebrate its 75th Season and the reopening of the War Memorial Opera House. Unpublished.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|1997 || align=center|''Paper Wings'' || Lyrics by [[Frederica von Stade]] || For mezzo-soprano and piano, and for mezzo-soprano and full orchestra ||
+# Bedtime Story
+# Paper Wings
+# Mitten Smitten
+# A Route to the Sky
+
+Commissioned by [[Frederica von Stade]] and dedicated to her daughter, Lisa Elkus. Orchestration commissioned by the [[Louisville Orchestra]] in 2000.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|1998 || align=center|''Before the Storm'' || Poetry by Judyth Walker, [[Emily Dickinson]], [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]] and [[Dorothy Parker]] || For mezzo-soprano, cello and piano ||
+# Before the Storm (Walker)
+# It sounded as if the streets were running (Dickinson)
+# What lips my lips have kissed (Millay)
+# The Thin Edge (Parker)
+
+Dedicated to [[Zheng Cao]]. Three songs based on works written in 1986, revised in 1998.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|1998 || align=center|''Songs to the Moon'' || Poetry by Vachal Lindsay || For mezzo-soprano and piano ||
+# Prologue: Once More – To Gloriana
+# Euclid
+# The Haughty Snail-King
+# What the Rattlesnake Said
+# The Moon’s the North Wind’s Cooky (What the little girl said)
+# What the Scarecrow Said
+# What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said
+# Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be (What Grandpa told the children)
+
+Commissioned for [[Frederica von Stade]] by MUSIC ACCORD.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|1998 || align=center|''Everyone Sang'' || Poetry by Siegfried Sassoon || For baritone and piano || Unpublished.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|1999 || align=center|''Song and Sonnets to Ophelia'' || Text by [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]] and Jake Heggie || For soprano and piano ||
+# The Spring is Arisen; Ophelia’s Song (Heggie)
+# Women have loved before as I love now (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
+# Not in a silver casket cool with pearls (Millay)
+# Spring (Millay)
+
+Composed for Peggy Kriha-Dye.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|1999 || align=center|''Patterns'' || Poetry by [[Amy Lowell]] ||For mezzo-soprano, SSAA chorus and piano || Commissioned by [[San Francisco Girls Chorus]] to celebrate its 20th anniversary.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|1999 || align=center|''From Emily's Garden'' || Poetry by [[Emily Dickinson]] || For soprano, flute, violin, cello, and piano || Unpublished.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2000 || align=center|''Of Gods and Cats'' || Poetry by [[Gavin Geoffrey Dillard]] || For mezzo-soprano and piano ||
+# In the beginning …
+# Once upon a universe
+
+Commissioned by Vija Nadai.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2000 || align=center|''How Well I Knew The Light'' || Poetry by [[Emily Dickinson]] || For soprano and piano ||
+# Ample Make This Bed
+# The Sun Kept Setting
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2000 || align=center|''Eve-Song'' || Poetry by Philip Littell || For soprano and piano ||
+# My name
+# Even
+# Good
+# Listen
+# Snake
+# Woe to Man
+# The Wound
+# The Farm
+
+Commissioned by James Schwabacher.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2001 || align=center|''The Starry Night'' || Poetry by [[Ann Sexton]], [[Emily Dickinson]], and [[A. E. Housman]], with texts by [[Vincent Van Gogh]] || For mezzo-soprano and piano || Commissioned for mezzo-soprano [[Kristine Jepson]] by Evolutions in Song.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2002 || align=center|''A Great Hope Fell: Songs from Civil War'' || Texts by [[Maya Angelou]], [[Paul Laurence Dunbar]], [[Emily Dickinson]], [[Stephen Foster]] and others || For baritone and chamber orchestra || Commissioned by the Eos Orchestra (Jonathan Sheffer, conductor) for baritone Gordon Hawkins. Unpublished.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2002 || align=center|''The Deepest Desire'' || Text by [[Sister Helen Prejean]] || For mezzo-soprano and piano, and for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra ||
+# The Call; More is required; Love
+# I catch on fire
+# The deepest desire
+# Primary colors
+
+Commissioned by [[Bravo! Vail|Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival]]. Orchestration commissioned by the [[St. Paul Chamber Orchestra]] in 2005.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2004 || align=center|''Some Times of Day'' || Text by [[Raymond Carver]] || For mezzo-soprano, violin, cello and piano ||
+# The Minuet
+# Simple
+# The Best Time of the Day
+
+Commissioned by the Harmida Trio.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2004 || align=center|''Winter Roses'' || Poetry by Charlene Baldridge, [[Emily Dickinson]], [[Frederica von Stade]] and [[Raymond Carver]] || For mezzo-soprano, string quintet, wind quintet and piano ||
+Prologue: Winter Roses (Baldridge)
+
+I. Two Birds
+:1. The Wren (Baldridge)
+:2. The Robin (Dickinson)
+II. Three Shades (in memoriam C.v.S.)
+:3. A Hero (von Stade)
+:4. Sleeping (Carver)
+:5. To My Dad (von Stade)
+III. Looking West
+:6. Sweet Light (Carver)
+Epilogue: Late Fragment (Carver)
+
+Commissioned by Richard and Luci Janssen for Camerata Pacifica.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2004 || align=center|''Vanity (blah blah me)'' || Text by Jake Heggie || For soprano and piano, and for soprano, clarinet, cello, bass, piano and percussion || Commissioned by [[Carnegie Hall]] for [[Audra McDonald]] as part of a new cycle, “The Seven Deadly Sins” (also featuring compositions contributed by [[Michael John LaChiusa]], [[Stephen Flaherty]], [[Ricky Ian Gordon]] and others).
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2004 || align=center|''Grow Old Along With Me!'' || Poetry by [[Robert Browning]] || For baritone and piano || Composed as a gift for baritone Robert Orth.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2005 || align=center|''Statuesque'' || Text by [[Gene Scheer]] || For mezzo-soprano and piano; also, with chamber orchestra accompaniment ||
+# Henry Moore: Reclining Figure of Elmwood
+# Pablo Picasso: Head of a Woman, 1932
+# Hapshetsut: The Divine Potter
+# Alberto Giacommetti: Standing Woman #2
+# Winged Victory: We’re Through
+
+Commissioned by [[University of Kansas]] at Lawrence for mezzo-soprano [[Joyce Castle]].
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2005 || align=center|''Here and Gone'' || Poetry by [[A.E. Housman]] and Vachal Lindsay || For tenor and baritone with violin, viola, cello and piano ||
+# The Farms of Home (Housman)
+# In Praise of Songs That Die (Lindsay)
+# Stars (Housman)
+# The Factory Window Song (Lindsay)
+# In the Morning (Housman)
+# Because I Liked You Better (Housman)
+# The Half-Moon Westers Low (Housman)
+
+Commissioned by Welz Kaufman and the [[Ravinia Festival]] for the Stearns Institute for Young Artists.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2005 || align=center|''The Other Other Woman'' || Lyrics by Mark Campbell || For male voice and piano || From ''Songs from an Unmade Bed'', a stage work that features 18 songs by various composers with lyrics by Mark Campbell.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2007 || align=center|''Facing Forward/Looking Back'' || Poetry by Charlene Baldridge, [[Eugenia Zukerman]], [[Raymond Carver]], [[Armistead Maupin]] and Jake Heggie || For soprano and mezzo-soprano with piano || Commissioned by Welz Kaufman and the [[Ravinia Festival]] for the Stearns Institute for Young Artists.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2007 || align=center|''Final monologue from [[Master Class (play)|Master Class]]'' || Text by [[Terrence McNally]] || For mezzo-soprano and piano || Composed for mezzo-soprano [[Joyce DiDonato]] to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the [[Merola Opera Program]] and to remember the late James Schwabacher.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2008 || align=center|''Friendly Persuasions: Homage to Poulenc'' || Poetry by [[Gene Scheer]] || For tenor and piano ||
+# Wanda Landowska
+# Pierre Bernac
+# Raymonde Linossier
+# Paul Eluard
+
+Based on four transformative friendships and meetings in Francis Poulenc’s life.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2011 || align=center|''Pieces of 9/11: Memories from Houston'' || Texts by [[Gene Scheer]] || For soprano, baritone and girl soprano (age 14-18) with flute, guitar, violin and cello ||
+# Prelude; Lauren
+# Lessons
+# Phone Calls
+# That Moment On
+# Beyond
+# An Open Book
+
+Commissioned by [[Houston Grand Opera]].
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2011 || align=center|''A Question of Light'' || Texts by [[Gene Scheer]] || For baritone and piano ||
+# The Light of Coincidences (Magritte)
+# Eccentric Flint (Maya c. AD 600-900)
+# Yellow Flowers in a Vase (Caillebotte)
+# Place de la Concorde (Mondrian)
+# El Hombre (Tamayo)
+# Watch (Murphy)
+
+Commissioned by [[Dallas Opera]] in association with the [[Dallas Museum of Art]] for baritone [[Nathan Gunn]].
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2011 || align=center|''The Years Roll By'' || Text by Charles Hart || For soprano and mezzo-soprano with piano || Composed for soprano [[Kiri Te Kanawa]] and mezzo-soprano [[Frederica von Stade]].
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2011 || align=center|''The Breaking Waves'' || Text by [[Sister Helen Prejean]] || For mezzo-soprano and piano || Commissioned by [[Carnegie Hall]] for mezzo-soprano [[Joyce DiDonato]] and pianist David Zobel.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2012 || align=center|''Farewell, Auschwitz'' || Texts adapted by [[Gene Scheer]] || For soprano, mezzo-soprano, baritone and piano, or with clarinet, violin, cello, bass, and piano ||
+# Prologue: For Maria
+# Soldiers
+# Diamonds
+# In the Cards
+# Irenka
+# Miss Ziutka
+# The Sun and the Skylark
+# Farewell, Auschwitz
+
+Commissioned by Music of Remembrance (Mina Miller, Artistic Director).
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2012 || align=center|''Camille Claudel: Into the Fire'' || Text by [[Gene Scheer]] || For mezzo-soprano and string quartet ||
+# Rodin
+# La Valse
+# Shakuntala
+# La petite châtelaine
+# The Gossips
+# L’age mûr
+# Epilogue: Jessie Lipscomb visits Camille Claudel, Montdevergues Asylum, 1929
+
+Commissioned by San Francisco Performances.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2012 || align=center|''Of Laughter and Farewell'' || Poetry by Vachal Lindsay || For tenor or baritone and piano ||
+# By The Spring, At Sunset
+# Under the Blessing of Your Psyche Wings
+
+Commissioned by [[Ravinia Festival]] (2012) and [[Opera America]] (2013).
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2013 || align=center|''From "The Book of Nightmares"'' || Poetry by [[Galway Kinnell]] || For soprano, cello and piano ||
+# You Scream
+# In A Restaurant
+# My Father’s Eyes
+# Back You Go
+
+Composed for soprano Lisa Delan.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2013 || align=center|''For a Look or a Touch'' (song cycle) || Libretto by [[Gene Scheer]] || For baritone and piano, or baritone with flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano || Originally commissioned by Music of Remembrance as a stage work, the song cycle version was created in 2013.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2014 || align=center|''Newer Every Day: Songs for Kiri'' || Poetry by [[Emily Dickinson]] || For soprano and piano ||
+# Silence
+# I’m Nobody! Who are You?
+# Fame
+# That I did always love
+# Goodnight
+
+Commissioned by the [[Ravinia Festival]] in celebration of Dame [[Kiri Te Kanawa]]’s 70th Birthday.
+|-valign="top"
+| Vocal || align=center|2015 || align=center|''The Work at Hand'' || Poetry by Laura Morefield || For mezzo-soprano, cello and piano; also for mezzo-soprano, cello and orchestra || Three symphonic songs based on poetry by the late Laura Morefield (1961-2011). Commissioned for mezzo-soprano [[Jamie Barton]] and cellist Anne Martindale Williams by [[Carnegie Hall]] and the [[Pittsburgh Symphony]].
+|-valign="top"
+| Orchestral || align=center|2001 || align=center|"Cut Time" Variations || || For piano and chamber orchestra || Commissioned by the Eos Orchestra (Jonathan Sheffer, conductor) for pianist [[Jeremy Denk]].
+|-valign="top"
+| Orchestral || align=center|2002 || align=center| Orchestral episodes from ''Dead Man Walking'' || || For full orchestra || Commissioned by the [[Dallas Symphony]] (Andrew Litton, music director).
+|-valign="top"
+| Orchestral || align=center|2002 || align=center| ''Holy the Firm:'' an essay for cello and orchestra || Inspired by the [[Annie Dillard#Holy the Firm|novel of the same name]] by [[Annie Dillard]] || For solo cello and orchestra || Commissioned by the Oakland East Bay Symphony (Michael Morgan, conductor) for Emil Miland, cellist.
+|-valign="top"
+| Orchestral || align=center|2013 || align=center| Ahab Symphony || Texts by [[Herman Melville]] (from "[[Moby-Dick]]") and [[W.H. Auden]] (from his poem, “Herman Melville”) || For tenor solo, SATB choir and full orchestra || Commissioned by the [[University of North Texas]].
+|-valign="top"
+| Choral || align=center|1987 || align=center| ''Faith Disquiet'' || Poetry by [[Emily Dickinson]] || For SATB Chorus (a cappella) ||
+# “Why do I love” You, Sir?
+# What if I say I shall not wait!
+# If you were coming in the fall
+
+Commissioned by the UCLA Choir (William Hatcher, conductor).
+|-valign="top"
+| Choral || align=center|1999 || align=center| ''Anna Madrigal Remembers'' || Text by [[Armistead Maupin]] || For mezzo-soprano and 12 solo male voices || Commissioned by [[Chanticleer]]. Unpublished.
+|-valign="top"
+| Choral || align=center|2001 || align=center| ''My Grandmother's Love Letters'' || Poetry by [[Hart Crane]] || For SATB Chorus and orchestra || Commissioned by the [[Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia]] (Donald Nally, artistic director).
+|-valign="top"
+| Choral || align=center|2003 || align=center| ''He will gather us around'' from ''[[Dead Man Walking (opera)|Dead Man Walking]]'' || Libretto by [[Terrence McNally]] || For SATB Chorus (a cappella) || An arrangement of the original hymn tune from the opera, ''[[Dead Man Walking (opera)|Dead Man Walking]]''.
+|-valign="top"
+| Choral || align=center|2006 || align=center| ''Seeking Higher Ground: Bruce Springsteen Rocks New Orleans, April 30, 2006'' || Text by [[Sister Helen Prejean]] || For double SATB chorus with full orchestra || Commissioned by [[Pacific Chorale]].
+|-valign="top"
+| Choral || align=center|2011 || align=center| ''A Hundred Thousand Stars'' from ''A Look or a Touch'' || Text by [[Gene Scheer]] || For TTBB Chorus and piano, or with flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano || This chorus was added to ''For a Look or a Touch'' when the original stage work was expanded for the Seattle Men’s Chorus in 2011.
+|-valign="top"
+| Choral || align=center|2012 || align=center| ''Six Christmas Traditions'' || Lyrics by Mark Campbell || For SATB choir with piano, flute and oboe || Commissioned by Renaissance City Choirs (Pittsburgh, PA).
+|-valign="top"
+| Choral || align=center|2013 || align=center| ''For a Look or a Touch'' (choral) || Libretto by Gene Scheer || For baritone, men’s chorus, actor, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion || Originally commissioned by Music of Remembrance, this second incarnation was commissioned by the Seattle Men’s Chorus and The Boston Gay Men’s Chorus.
+|-valign="top"
+| Choral || align=center|2013 || align=center| ''The Narrow Bridge'' || Text by Pamela Stewart || For TTBB Chorus || Final movement of ''Tyler's Suite'', featuring compositions by [[Nolan Gasser]], [[Stephen Schwartz]], [[Ann Hampton Callaway]], [[John Corigliano]], [[John Bucchino]], and Lance Horne. Commissioned by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus.
+|-valign="top"
+| Choral || align=center|2015 || align=center| ''Stop This Day and Night with Me'' || Poetry from [[Walt Whitman]]’s "[[Leaves of Grass]]" || For SATB chorus (a cappella) || Composed for [[The King’s Singers]] as The Raymond W. Brock Commission for the [[American Choral Directors Association]].
+|-valign="top"
+| Instrumental || align=center|1982 || align=center| Indiana Bound || || For piano || Unpublished.
+|-valign="top"
+| Instrumental || align=center|1983 || align=center| Inishfallen || || Suite for piano || Unpublished.
+|-valign="top"
+| Instrumental || align=center|1984 || align=center| Lugalla || || For string quartet || Unpublished.
+|-valign="top"
+| Instrumental || align=center|1985 || align=center| Glengariff Trio || || For violin, cello and piano || Unpublished.
+|-valign="top"
+| Instrumental || align=center|1985 || align=center| Inishfree || || For two pianos || Unpublished.
+|-valign="top"
+| Instrumental || align=center|1986 || align=center| Skellig Variations || || For two pianos || Unpublished.
+|-valign="top"
+| Instrumental || align=center|1987 || align=center| Rhosymedre || || For two pianos || Unpublished.
+|-valign="top"
+| Instrumental || align=center|1988 || align=center| ''One Day at the Duck Pond'': illustrations with music to write stories to (children's book) || Drawings and music by Jake Heggie || For piano || Unpublished.
+|-valign="top"
+| Instrumental || align=center|1990 || align=center| Divertimento || || For two pianos || Unpublished.
+|-valign="top"
+| Instrumental || align=center|1991 || align=center| Christmas Nocturnes || || For piano ||
+# Est is ein Ros’
+# Coventry Carol
+# O Come, Emanuel
+# The Holly and the Ivy
+# I Saw Three Ships
+# I Wonder as I Wander
+# Silent Night
+
+Arrangement by Jake Heggie. Unpublished.
+|-valign="top"
+| Instrumental || align=center|1996 || align=center| Coward/Cabaret || || For cello and piano ||
+# Mad About the Boy
+# Someday I’ll Find You
+# Meme les anges
+
+Music by [[Noel Coward]], arrangement by Jake Heggie. Unpublished.
+|-valign="top"
+| Instrumental || align=center|2010 || align=center| Fury of Light || Inspired by [[Mary Oliver]]'s poem, ''Sunrise'' || For flute and piano; also for flute and chamber orchestra || Commissioned for flutist [[Carol Wincenc]] by Linda & Stuart Nelson. Orchestration created in 2010.
+|-valign="top"
+| Instrumental || align=center|2012 || align=center| Orcas Island Ferry || || Suite for violin/viola and piano ||
+# Crossing
+# On and Off
+# The Shoreline Lullabye
+# Whistling and Listening
+# In Tows and Threes (Motor Rhythm)
+
+Commissioned by the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival.
+|-valign="top"
+| Instrumental || align=center|2012 || align=center| Soliloquy || || For flute and piano || A setting of the song ''Beyond'' (from ''Pieces of 9/11'') commissioned by Camerata Pacifica (Adrian Spence, artistic director).
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5 => '!width="250"|Text',
6 => '!width="200"|Orchestration',
7 => '!width="35%;"|Notes',
8 => '|-valign="top"',
9 => '| Opera || align=center|2000 || align=center|''[[Dead Man Walking (opera)|Dead Man Walking]]'' || Libretto by [[Terrence McNally]] || An opera in two acts || Based on the [[Dead Man Walking (book)|novel of the same name]] by [[Sister Helen Prejean]]. Commissioned by [[San Francisco Opera]].',
10 => '|-valign="top"',
11 => '| Opera || align=center|2000 || align=center|''Again'' || Libretto by Kevin Gregory || Operatic scene for four solo voices (soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and baritone) with chamber orchestra || Commissioned by the EOS Orchestra (Jonathan Sheffer, music director).',
12 => '|-valign="top"',
13 => '| Opera || align=center|2003 || align=center|''[[The End of the Affair (opera)|The End of the Affair]]'' || Libretto by Heather McDonald || An opera in two acts || Based on the [[The End of the Affair|novel of the same name]] by [[Graham Greene (writer)|Graham Greene]]. Commissioned by [[Houston Grand Opera]]. Revised in 2004-2005.',
14 => '|-valign="top"',
15 => '| Opera || align=center|2005 || align=center|''At the Statue of Venus'' || Libretto by [[Terrence McNally]] || A musical scene for soprano and piano || Commissioned by [[Opera Colorado]].',
16 => '|-valign="top"',
17 => '| Opera || align=center|2006 || align=center|''To Hell and Back'' || Libretto by [[Gene Scheer]] || An opera in one act for soprano, Broadway soprano and period instrument orchestra || Commissioned by [[Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra]].',
18 => '|-valign="top"',
19 => '| Opera || align=center|2008 || align=center|''[[Three Decembers]]'' || Libretto by [[Gene Scheer]] || An opera in one act || Based on [[Terrence McNally]]’s original script, "Some Christmas Letters." Commissioned by the [[Houston Grand Opera]] and co-commissioned by the [[San Francisco Opera]] in association with Cal Performances at [[University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley]].',
20 => '|-valign="top"',
21 => '| Opera || align=center|2010 || align=center|''[[Moby-Dick (opera)|Moby-Dick]]'' || Libretto by [[Gene Scheer]] || An opera in two acts || Based on the [[Moby-Dick|novel of the same name]] by [[Herman Melville]]. Commissioned by [[Dallas Opera]], [[San Francisco Opera]], [[Calgary Opera]], [[San Diego Opera]] and the [[State Opera of South Australia]].',
22 => '|-valign="top"',
23 => '| Opera || align=center|2012 || align=center|''Another Sunrise'' || Libretto by [[Gene Scheer]] || Dramatic scene for soprano, clarinet, violin, cello, bass, and piano || Commissioned by Music of Remembrance (Mina Miller, artistic director)',
24 => '|-valign="top"',
25 => '| Opera || align=center|2013 || align=center|''Out of Darkness'' || Libretto by [[Gene Scheer]] || Opera in three parts for soprano, mezzo-soprano, baritone, actor, with flute, clarinet, violin, cello, bass and piano || Opera in three parts: ',
26 => '# Another Sunrise ',
27 => '# Farewell, Auschwitz ',
28 => '# For a Look or a Touch ',
29 => false,
30 => 'Commissioned by Music of Remembrance (Mina Miller, artistic director). Each part received its premiere individually by Music of Remembrance.',
31 => '|-valign="top"',
32 => '| Opera || align=center|2014 || align=center|''The Radio Hour'' || Libretto by [[Gene Scheer]] || Chamber opera for chamber choir, silent actress, flute, clarinet, alto sax, percussion, piano, violin, cello, and bass || Commissioned by [[Pacific Chorale]], [[VocalEssence]], [[Conspirare]], and [[The Philadelphia Singers]].',
33 => '|-valign="top"',
34 => '| Opera || align=center|2015 || align=center|''Great Scott'' || Libretto by [[Terrence McNally]] || An opera in two acts || Based on an original story by [[Terrence McNally]]. Commissioned by [[Dallas Opera]] and co-produced with [[San Diego Opera]].',
35 => '|-valign="top"',
36 => '| Vocal || align=center|1992 || align=center|''Trois poemes de interieurs de Rainer Maria Rilke'' || Text by [[Rainer Maria Rilke]] || For baritone and piano || ',
37 => '# Portrait intérieure',
38 => '# La porteuse de fleurs',
39 => '# Epilogue: C’est pour t’avoir vue ',
40 => false,
41 => 'Unpublished.',
42 => '|-valign="top"',
43 => '| Vocal || align=center|1995 || align=center|''Encountertenor'' || Lyrics by John Hall || For countertenor and piano || ',
44 => '# Countertenor’s Conundrum ',
45 => '# The trouble with trebles in trousers … (Pitch can be a bitch!) ',
46 => '# A Gift to Share',
47 => false,
48 => 'Commissioned by Brian Asawa.',
49 => '|-valign="top"',
50 => '| Vocal || align=center|1995 || align=center|''Three Folk Songs'' || Traditional || For mezzo-soprano and piano || ',
51 => '# Barb'ry Allen',
52 => '# He's Gone Away',
53 => '# The Leather-Winged Bat',
54 => false,
55 => 'Dedicated to [[Frederica von Stade]].',
56 => '|-valign="top"',
57 => '| Vocal || align=center|1995 || align=center|''I shall not live in vain'' || Poetry by [[Emily Dickinson]] || For mezzo-soprano and piano, and for mezzo-soprano solo with SA chorus, hand bells and piano || Song originally written in 1995, expanded and arranged for mezzo-soprano with SA chorus, hand bells and piano in 1998.',
58 => '|-valign="top"',
59 => '| Vocal || align=center|1996 || align=center|''On the Road to Christmas'' || Texts by [[A.E. Housman]], [[Frederica von Stade]], [[John Jacob Niles]], [[Emily Dickinson]] and Jake Heggie || For mezzo-soprano and string orchestra || ',
60 => '# The Night is Freezing Fast (A.E. Housman)',
61 => '# The Car Ride to Christmas (von Stade)',
62 => '# Good King Merrily on High (traditional)',
63 => '# I wonder as I wander (Niles)',
64 => '# The Road to Bethlehem (Dickinson)',
65 => '# And then the Setting Sun (von Stade)',
66 => '# Christmas Time of Year (Heggie)',
67 => false,
68 => 'Commissioned by the [[New Century Chamber Orchestra]].',
69 => '|-valign="top"',
70 => '| Vocal || align=center|1996 || align=center|''My true love hath my heart'' || Poetry by [[Sir Philip Sydney]] || For soprano, cello and piano || Also arranged as a duet for soprano, mezzo, cello and piano.',
71 => '|-valign="top"',
72 => '| Vocal || align=center|1996 || align=center|''Thoughts Unspoken'' || Lyrics by John Hall || For baritone and piano || ',
73 => '# A learning experience over coffee… ',
74 => '# You enter my thoughts ',
75 => '# To speak of love ',
76 => '# Unspoken thoughts at bedtime',
77 => false,
78 => 'Commissioned by Earle Patriarco.',
79 => '|-valign="top"',
80 => '| Vocal || align=center|1997 || align=center|''Natural Selection'' || Poetry by Gini Savage || For soprano and piano || ',
81 => '# Creation ',
82 => '# Animal Passion ',
83 => '# Alas! Alack! ',
84 => '# Indian Summer – Blue ',
85 => '# Connection',
86 => false,
87 => 'Music and poetry composed for Nicolle Foland.',
88 => '|-valign="top"',
89 => '| Vocal || align=center|1997 || align=center|''So Many Notes!'' || Text by Jake Heggie || For 11 singers and orchestra || Commissioned by [[San Francisco Opera]] to celebrate its 75th Season and the reopening of the War Memorial Opera House. Unpublished.',
90 => '|-valign="top"',
91 => '| Vocal || align=center|1997 || align=center|''Paper Wings'' || Lyrics by [[Frederica von Stade]] || For mezzo-soprano and piano, and for mezzo-soprano and full orchestra || ',
92 => '# Bedtime Story ',
93 => '# Paper Wings ',
94 => '# Mitten Smitten ',
95 => '# A Route to the Sky',
96 => false,
97 => 'Commissioned by [[Frederica von Stade]] and dedicated to her daughter, Lisa Elkus. Orchestration commissioned by the [[Louisville Orchestra]] in 2000.',
98 => '|-valign="top"',
99 => '| Vocal || align=center|1998 || align=center|''Before the Storm'' || Poetry by Judyth Walker, [[Emily Dickinson]], [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]] and [[Dorothy Parker]] || For mezzo-soprano, cello and piano || ',
100 => '# Before the Storm (Walker) ',
101 => '# It sounded as if the streets were running (Dickinson) ',
102 => '# What lips my lips have kissed (Millay) ',
103 => '# The Thin Edge (Parker)',
104 => false,
105 => 'Dedicated to [[Zheng Cao]]. Three songs based on works written in 1986, revised in 1998.',
106 => '|-valign="top"',
107 => '| Vocal || align=center|1998 || align=center|''Songs to the Moon'' || Poetry by Vachal Lindsay || For mezzo-soprano and piano || ',
108 => '# Prologue: Once More – To Gloriana ',
109 => '# Euclid ',
110 => '# The Haughty Snail-King ',
111 => '# What the Rattlesnake Said ',
112 => '# The Moon’s the North Wind’s Cooky (What the little girl said) ',
113 => '# What the Scarecrow Said ',
114 => '# What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said ',
115 => '# Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be (What Grandpa told the children)',
116 => false,
117 => 'Commissioned for [[Frederica von Stade]] by MUSIC ACCORD.',
118 => '|-valign="top"',
119 => '| Vocal || align=center|1998 || align=center|''Everyone Sang'' || Poetry by Siegfried Sassoon || For baritone and piano || Unpublished.',
120 => '|-valign="top"',
121 => '| Vocal || align=center|1999 || align=center|''Song and Sonnets to Ophelia'' || Text by [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]] and Jake Heggie || For soprano and piano ||',
122 => '# The Spring is Arisen; Ophelia’s Song (Heggie) ',
123 => '# Women have loved before as I love now (Edna St. Vincent Millay) ',
124 => '# Not in a silver casket cool with pearls (Millay) ',
125 => '# Spring (Millay)',
126 => false,
127 => 'Composed for Peggy Kriha-Dye.',
128 => '|-valign="top"',
129 => '| Vocal || align=center|1999 || align=center|''Patterns'' || Poetry by [[Amy Lowell]] ||For mezzo-soprano, SSAA chorus and piano || Commissioned by [[San Francisco Girls Chorus]] to celebrate its 20th anniversary.',
130 => '|-valign="top"',
131 => '| Vocal || align=center|1999 || align=center|''From Emily's Garden'' || Poetry by [[Emily Dickinson]] || For soprano, flute, violin, cello, and piano || Unpublished.',
132 => '|-valign="top"',
133 => '| Vocal || align=center|2000 || align=center|''Of Gods and Cats'' || Poetry by [[Gavin Geoffrey Dillard]] || For mezzo-soprano and piano || ',
134 => '# In the beginning …',
135 => '# Once upon a universe',
136 => false,
137 => 'Commissioned by Vija Nadai.',
138 => '|-valign="top"',
139 => '| Vocal || align=center|2000 || align=center|''How Well I Knew The Light'' || Poetry by [[Emily Dickinson]] || For soprano and piano || ',
140 => '# Ample Make This Bed',
141 => '# The Sun Kept Setting',
142 => '|-valign="top"',
143 => '| Vocal || align=center|2000 || align=center|''Eve-Song'' || Poetry by Philip Littell || For soprano and piano || ',
144 => '# My name ',
145 => '# Even ',
146 => '# Good ',
147 => '# Listen ',
148 => '# Snake ',
149 => '# Woe to Man ',
150 => '# The Wound ',
151 => '# The Farm',
152 => false,
153 => 'Commissioned by James Schwabacher.',
154 => '|-valign="top"',
155 => '| Vocal || align=center|2001 || align=center|''The Starry Night'' || Poetry by [[Ann Sexton]], [[Emily Dickinson]], and [[A. E. Housman]], with texts by [[Vincent Van Gogh]] || For mezzo-soprano and piano || Commissioned for mezzo-soprano [[Kristine Jepson]] by Evolutions in Song.',
156 => '|-valign="top"',
157 => '| Vocal || align=center|2002 || align=center|''A Great Hope Fell: Songs from Civil War'' || Texts by [[Maya Angelou]], [[Paul Laurence Dunbar]], [[Emily Dickinson]], [[Stephen Foster]] and others || For baritone and chamber orchestra || Commissioned by the Eos Orchestra (Jonathan Sheffer, conductor) for baritone Gordon Hawkins. Unpublished.',
158 => '|-valign="top"',
159 => '| Vocal || align=center|2002 || align=center|''The Deepest Desire'' || Text by [[Sister Helen Prejean]] || For mezzo-soprano and piano, and for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra ||',
160 => '# The Call; More is required; Love ',
161 => '# I catch on fire ',
162 => '# The deepest desire ',
163 => '# Primary colors',
164 => false,
165 => 'Commissioned by [[Bravo! Vail|Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival]]. Orchestration commissioned by the [[St. Paul Chamber Orchestra]] in 2005.',
166 => '|-valign="top"',
167 => '| Vocal || align=center|2004 || align=center|''Some Times of Day'' || Text by [[Raymond Carver]] || For mezzo-soprano, violin, cello and piano ||',
168 => '# The Minuet',
169 => '# Simple',
170 => '# The Best Time of the Day',
171 => false,
172 => 'Commissioned by the Harmida Trio.',
173 => '|-valign="top"',
174 => '| Vocal || align=center|2004 || align=center|''Winter Roses'' || Poetry by Charlene Baldridge, [[Emily Dickinson]], [[Frederica von Stade]] and [[Raymond Carver]] || For mezzo-soprano, string quintet, wind quintet and piano ||',
175 => 'Prologue: Winter Roses (Baldridge) ',
176 => false,
177 => 'I. Two Birds ',
178 => ':1. The Wren (Baldridge) ',
179 => ':2. The Robin (Dickinson) ',
180 => 'II. Three Shades (in memoriam C.v.S.) ',
181 => ':3. A Hero (von Stade) ',
182 => ':4. Sleeping (Carver) ',
183 => ':5. To My Dad (von Stade) ',
184 => 'III. Looking West ',
185 => ':6. Sweet Light (Carver) ',
186 => 'Epilogue: Late Fragment (Carver)',
187 => false,
188 => 'Commissioned by Richard and Luci Janssen for Camerata Pacifica.',
189 => '|-valign="top"',
190 => '| Vocal || align=center|2004 || align=center|''Vanity (blah blah me)'' || Text by Jake Heggie || For soprano and piano, and for soprano, clarinet, cello, bass, piano and percussion || Commissioned by [[Carnegie Hall]] for [[Audra McDonald]] as part of a new cycle, “The Seven Deadly Sins” (also featuring compositions contributed by [[Michael John LaChiusa]], [[Stephen Flaherty]], [[Ricky Ian Gordon]] and others).',
191 => '|-valign="top"',
192 => '| Vocal || align=center|2004 || align=center|''Grow Old Along With Me!'' || Poetry by [[Robert Browning]] || For baritone and piano || Composed as a gift for baritone Robert Orth.',
193 => '|-valign="top"',
194 => '| Vocal || align=center|2005 || align=center|''Statuesque'' || Text by [[Gene Scheer]] || For mezzo-soprano and piano; also, with chamber orchestra accompaniment ||',
195 => '# Henry Moore: Reclining Figure of Elmwood ',
196 => '# Pablo Picasso: Head of a Woman, 1932 ',
197 => '# Hapshetsut: The Divine Potter ',
198 => '# Alberto Giacommetti: Standing Woman #2 ',
199 => '# Winged Victory: We’re Through',
200 => false,
201 => 'Commissioned by [[University of Kansas]] at Lawrence for mezzo-soprano [[Joyce Castle]].',
202 => '|-valign="top"',
203 => '| Vocal || align=center|2005 || align=center|''Here and Gone'' || Poetry by [[A.E. Housman]] and Vachal Lindsay || For tenor and baritone with violin, viola, cello and piano ||',
204 => '# The Farms of Home (Housman) ',
205 => '# In Praise of Songs That Die (Lindsay) ',
206 => '# Stars (Housman) ',
207 => '# The Factory Window Song (Lindsay) ',
208 => '# In the Morning (Housman) ',
209 => '# Because I Liked You Better (Housman) ',
210 => '# The Half-Moon Westers Low (Housman)',
211 => false,
212 => 'Commissioned by Welz Kaufman and the [[Ravinia Festival]] for the Stearns Institute for Young Artists.',
213 => '|-valign="top"',
214 => '| Vocal || align=center|2005 || align=center|''The Other Other Woman'' || Lyrics by Mark Campbell || For male voice and piano || From ''Songs from an Unmade Bed'', a stage work that features 18 songs by various composers with lyrics by Mark Campbell. ',
215 => '|-valign="top"',
216 => '| Vocal || align=center|2007 || align=center|''Facing Forward/Looking Back'' || Poetry by Charlene Baldridge, [[Eugenia Zukerman]], [[Raymond Carver]], [[Armistead Maupin]] and Jake Heggie || For soprano and mezzo-soprano with piano || Commissioned by Welz Kaufman and the [[Ravinia Festival]] for the Stearns Institute for Young Artists.',
217 => '|-valign="top"',
218 => '| Vocal || align=center|2007 || align=center|''Final monologue from [[Master Class (play)|Master Class]]'' || Text by [[Terrence McNally]] || For mezzo-soprano and piano || Composed for mezzo-soprano [[Joyce DiDonato]] to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the [[Merola Opera Program]] and to remember the late James Schwabacher.',
219 => '|-valign="top"',
220 => '| Vocal || align=center|2008 || align=center|''Friendly Persuasions: Homage to Poulenc'' || Poetry by [[Gene Scheer]] || For tenor and piano || ',
221 => '# Wanda Landowska ',
222 => '# Pierre Bernac ',
223 => '# Raymonde Linossier ',
224 => '# Paul Eluard',
225 => false,
226 => 'Based on four transformative friendships and meetings in Francis Poulenc’s life.',
227 => '|-valign="top"',
228 => '| Vocal || align=center|2011 || align=center|''Pieces of 9/11: Memories from Houston'' || Texts by [[Gene Scheer]] || For soprano, baritone and girl soprano (age 14-18) with flute, guitar, violin and cello || ',
229 => '# Prelude; Lauren ',
230 => '# Lessons ',
231 => '# Phone Calls ',
232 => '# That Moment On ',
233 => '# Beyond ',
234 => '# An Open Book',
235 => false,
236 => 'Commissioned by [[Houston Grand Opera]].',
237 => '|-valign="top"',
238 => '| Vocal || align=center|2011 || align=center|''A Question of Light'' || Texts by [[Gene Scheer]] || For baritone and piano || ',
239 => '# The Light of Coincidences (Magritte) ',
240 => '# Eccentric Flint (Maya c. AD 600-900) ',
241 => '# Yellow Flowers in a Vase (Caillebotte) ',
242 => '# Place de la Concorde (Mondrian) ',
243 => '# El Hombre (Tamayo) ',
244 => '# Watch (Murphy)',
245 => false,
246 => 'Commissioned by [[Dallas Opera]] in association with the [[Dallas Museum of Art]] for baritone [[Nathan Gunn]].',
247 => '|-valign="top"',
248 => '| Vocal || align=center|2011 || align=center|''The Years Roll By'' || Text by Charles Hart || For soprano and mezzo-soprano with piano || Composed for soprano [[Kiri Te Kanawa]] and mezzo-soprano [[Frederica von Stade]].',
249 => '|-valign="top"',
250 => '| Vocal || align=center|2011 || align=center|''The Breaking Waves'' || Text by [[Sister Helen Prejean]] || For mezzo-soprano and piano || Commissioned by [[Carnegie Hall]] for mezzo-soprano [[Joyce DiDonato]] and pianist David Zobel.',
251 => '|-valign="top"',
252 => '| Vocal || align=center|2012 || align=center|''Farewell, Auschwitz'' || Texts adapted by [[Gene Scheer]] || For soprano, mezzo-soprano, baritone and piano, or with clarinet, violin, cello, bass, and piano || ',
253 => '# Prologue: For Maria ',
254 => '# Soldiers ',
255 => '# Diamonds ',
256 => '# In the Cards ',
257 => '# Irenka ',
258 => '# Miss Ziutka ',
259 => '# The Sun and the Skylark ',
260 => '# Farewell, Auschwitz',
261 => false,
262 => 'Commissioned by Music of Remembrance (Mina Miller, Artistic Director).',
263 => '|-valign="top"',
264 => '| Vocal || align=center|2012 || align=center|''Camille Claudel: Into the Fire'' || Text by [[Gene Scheer]] || For mezzo-soprano and string quartet || ',
265 => '# Rodin ',
266 => '# La Valse ',
267 => '# Shakuntala ',
268 => '# La petite châtelaine ',
269 => '# The Gossips ',
270 => '# L’age mûr ',
271 => '# Epilogue: Jessie Lipscomb visits Camille Claudel, Montdevergues Asylum, 1929 ',
272 => false,
273 => 'Commissioned by San Francisco Performances.',
274 => '|-valign="top"',
275 => '| Vocal || align=center|2012 || align=center|''Of Laughter and Farewell'' || Poetry by Vachal Lindsay || For tenor or baritone and piano || ',
276 => '# By The Spring, At Sunset ',
277 => '# Under the Blessing of Your Psyche Wings',
278 => false,
279 => 'Commissioned by [[Ravinia Festival]] (2012) and [[Opera America]] (2013).',
280 => '|-valign="top"',
281 => '| Vocal || align=center|2013 || align=center|''From "The Book of Nightmares"'' || Poetry by [[Galway Kinnell]] || For soprano, cello and piano || ',
282 => '# You Scream ',
283 => '# In A Restaurant ',
284 => '# My Father’s Eyes ',
285 => '# Back You Go',
286 => false,
287 => 'Composed for soprano Lisa Delan.',
288 => '|-valign="top"',
289 => '| Vocal || align=center|2013 || align=center|''For a Look or a Touch'' (song cycle) || Libretto by [[Gene Scheer]] || For baritone and piano, or baritone with flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano || Originally commissioned by Music of Remembrance as a stage work, the song cycle version was created in 2013.',
290 => '|-valign="top"',
291 => '| Vocal || align=center|2014 || align=center|''Newer Every Day: Songs for Kiri'' || Poetry by [[Emily Dickinson]] || For soprano and piano || ',
292 => '# Silence ',
293 => '# I’m Nobody! Who are You? ',
294 => '# Fame ',
295 => '# That I did always love ',
296 => '# Goodnight',
297 => false,
298 => 'Commissioned by the [[Ravinia Festival]] in celebration of Dame [[Kiri Te Kanawa]]’s 70th Birthday.',
299 => '|-valign="top"',
300 => '| Vocal || align=center|2015 || align=center|''The Work at Hand'' || Poetry by Laura Morefield || For mezzo-soprano, cello and piano; also for mezzo-soprano, cello and orchestra || Three symphonic songs based on poetry by the late Laura Morefield (1961-2011). Commissioned for mezzo-soprano [[Jamie Barton]] and cellist Anne Martindale Williams by [[Carnegie Hall]] and the [[Pittsburgh Symphony]].',
301 => '|-valign="top"',
302 => '| Orchestral || align=center|2001 || align=center|"Cut Time" Variations || || For piano and chamber orchestra || Commissioned by the Eos Orchestra (Jonathan Sheffer, conductor) for pianist [[Jeremy Denk]].',
303 => '|-valign="top"',
304 => '| Orchestral || align=center|2002 || align=center| Orchestral episodes from ''Dead Man Walking'' || || For full orchestra || Commissioned by the [[Dallas Symphony]] (Andrew Litton, music director).',
305 => '|-valign="top"',
306 => '| Orchestral || align=center|2002 || align=center| ''Holy the Firm:'' an essay for cello and orchestra || Inspired by the [[Annie Dillard#Holy the Firm|novel of the same name]] by [[Annie Dillard]] || For solo cello and orchestra || Commissioned by the Oakland East Bay Symphony (Michael Morgan, conductor) for Emil Miland, cellist.',
307 => '|-valign="top"',
308 => '| Orchestral || align=center|2013 || align=center| Ahab Symphony || Texts by [[Herman Melville]] (from "[[Moby-Dick]]") and [[W.H. Auden]] (from his poem, “Herman Melville”) || For tenor solo, SATB choir and full orchestra || Commissioned by the [[University of North Texas]].',
309 => '|-valign="top"',
310 => '| Choral || align=center|1987 || align=center| ''Faith Disquiet'' || Poetry by [[Emily Dickinson]] || For SATB Chorus (a cappella) || ',
311 => '# “Why do I love” You, Sir? ',
312 => '# What if I say I shall not wait! ',
313 => '# If you were coming in the fall',
314 => false,
315 => 'Commissioned by the UCLA Choir (William Hatcher, conductor).',
316 => '|-valign="top"',
317 => '| Choral || align=center|1999 || align=center| ''Anna Madrigal Remembers'' || Text by [[Armistead Maupin]] || For mezzo-soprano and 12 solo male voices || Commissioned by [[Chanticleer]]. Unpublished.',
318 => '|-valign="top"',
319 => '| Choral || align=center|2001 || align=center| ''My Grandmother's Love Letters'' || Poetry by [[Hart Crane]] || For SATB Chorus and orchestra || Commissioned by the [[Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia]] (Donald Nally, artistic director).',
320 => '|-valign="top"',
321 => '| Choral || align=center|2003 || align=center| ''He will gather us around'' from ''[[Dead Man Walking (opera)|Dead Man Walking]]'' || Libretto by [[Terrence McNally]] || For SATB Chorus (a cappella) || An arrangement of the original hymn tune from the opera, ''[[Dead Man Walking (opera)|Dead Man Walking]]''.',
322 => '|-valign="top"',
323 => '| Choral || align=center|2006 || align=center| ''Seeking Higher Ground: Bruce Springsteen Rocks New Orleans, April 30, 2006'' || Text by [[Sister Helen Prejean]] || For double SATB chorus with full orchestra || Commissioned by [[Pacific Chorale]].',
324 => '|-valign="top"',
325 => '| Choral || align=center|2011 || align=center| ''A Hundred Thousand Stars'' from ''A Look or a Touch'' || Text by [[Gene Scheer]] || For TTBB Chorus and piano, or with flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano || This chorus was added to ''For a Look or a Touch'' when the original stage work was expanded for the Seattle Men’s Chorus in 2011.',
326 => '|-valign="top"',
327 => '| Choral || align=center|2012 || align=center| ''Six Christmas Traditions'' || Lyrics by Mark Campbell || For SATB choir with piano, flute and oboe || Commissioned by Renaissance City Choirs (Pittsburgh, PA).',
328 => '|-valign="top"',
329 => '| Choral || align=center|2013 || align=center| ''For a Look or a Touch'' (choral) || Libretto by Gene Scheer || For baritone, men’s chorus, actor, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion || Originally commissioned by Music of Remembrance, this second incarnation was commissioned by the Seattle Men’s Chorus and The Boston Gay Men’s Chorus.',
330 => '|-valign="top"',
331 => '| Choral || align=center|2013 || align=center| ''The Narrow Bridge'' || Text by Pamela Stewart || For TTBB Chorus || Final movement of ''Tyler's Suite'', featuring compositions by [[Nolan Gasser]], [[Stephen Schwartz]], [[Ann Hampton Callaway]], [[John Corigliano]], [[John Bucchino]], and Lance Horne. Commissioned by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus.',
332 => '|-valign="top"',
333 => '| Choral || align=center|2015 || align=center| ''Stop This Day and Night with Me'' || Poetry from [[Walt Whitman]]’s "[[Leaves of Grass]]" || For SATB chorus (a cappella) || Composed for [[The King’s Singers]] as The Raymond W. Brock Commission for the [[American Choral Directors Association]].',
334 => '|-valign="top"',
335 => '| Instrumental || align=center|1982 || align=center| Indiana Bound || || For piano || Unpublished.',
336 => '|-valign="top"',
337 => '| Instrumental || align=center|1983 || align=center| Inishfallen || || Suite for piano || Unpublished.',
338 => '|-valign="top"',
339 => '| Instrumental || align=center|1984 || align=center| Lugalla || || For string quartet || Unpublished.',
340 => '|-valign="top"',
341 => '| Instrumental || align=center|1985 || align=center| Glengariff Trio || || For violin, cello and piano || Unpublished.',
342 => '|-valign="top"',
343 => '| Instrumental || align=center|1985 || align=center| Inishfree || || For two pianos || Unpublished.',
344 => '|-valign="top"',
345 => '| Instrumental || align=center|1986 || align=center| Skellig Variations || || For two pianos || Unpublished.',
346 => '|-valign="top"',
347 => '| Instrumental || align=center|1987 || align=center| Rhosymedre || || For two pianos || Unpublished.',
348 => '|-valign="top"',
349 => '| Instrumental || align=center|1988 || align=center| ''One Day at the Duck Pond'': illustrations with music to write stories to (children's book) || Drawings and music by Jake Heggie || For piano || Unpublished.',
350 => '|-valign="top"',
351 => '| Instrumental || align=center|1990 || align=center| Divertimento || || For two pianos || Unpublished.',
352 => '|-valign="top"',
353 => '| Instrumental || align=center|1991 || align=center| Christmas Nocturnes || || For piano ||',
354 => '# Est is ein Ros’',
355 => '# Coventry Carol',
356 => '# O Come, Emanuel',
357 => '# The Holly and the Ivy',
358 => '# I Saw Three Ships',
359 => '# I Wonder as I Wander',
360 => '# Silent Night',
361 => false,
362 => 'Arrangement by Jake Heggie. Unpublished.',
363 => '|-valign="top"',
364 => '| Instrumental || align=center|1996 || align=center| Coward/Cabaret || || For cello and piano ||',
365 => '# Mad About the Boy',
366 => '# Someday I’ll Find You',
367 => '# Meme les anges',
368 => false,
369 => 'Music by [[Noel Coward]], arrangement by Jake Heggie. Unpublished.',
370 => '|-valign="top"',
371 => '| Instrumental || align=center|2010 || align=center| Fury of Light || Inspired by [[Mary Oliver]]'s poem, ''Sunrise'' || For flute and piano; also for flute and chamber orchestra || Commissioned for flutist [[Carol Wincenc]] by Linda & Stuart Nelson. Orchestration created in 2010.',
372 => '|-valign="top"',
373 => '| Instrumental || align=center|2012 || align=center| Orcas Island Ferry || || Suite for violin/viola and piano ||',
374 => '# Crossing ',
375 => '# On and Off ',
376 => '# The Shoreline Lullabye ',
377 => '# Whistling and Listening ',
378 => '# In Tows and Threes (Motor Rhythm)',
379 => false,
380 => 'Commissioned by the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival.',
381 => '|-valign="top"',
382 => '| Instrumental || align=center|2012 || align=center| Soliloquy || || For flute and piano || A setting of the song ''Beyond'' (from ''Pieces of 9/11'') commissioned by Camerata Pacifica (Adrian Spence, artistic director).'
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<table class="sortable wikitable" style="margins:auto; width=95%;">
<tr>
<th width="95">Genre</th>
<th width="45">Date</th>
<th width="250">Title</th>
<th width="250">Text</th>
<th width="200">Orchestration</th>
<th width="35%;">Notes</th>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Opera</td>
<td align="center">2000</td>
<td align="center"><i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Dead_Man_Walking_(opera)" title="Dead Man Walking (opera)">Dead Man Walking</a></i></td>
<td>Libretto by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Terrence_McNally" title="Terrence McNally">Terrence McNally</a></td>
<td>An opera in two acts</td>
<td>Based on the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Dead_Man_Walking_(book)" title="Dead Man Walking (book)">novel of the same name</a> by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sister_Helen_Prejean" title="Sister Helen Prejean" class="mw-redirect">Sister Helen Prejean</a>. Commissioned by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/San_Francisco_Opera" title="San Francisco Opera">San Francisco Opera</a>.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Opera</td>
<td align="center">2000</td>
<td align="center"><i>Again</i></td>
<td>Libretto by Kevin Gregory</td>
<td>Operatic scene for four solo voices (soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and baritone) with chamber orchestra</td>
<td>Commissioned by the EOS Orchestra (Jonathan Sheffer, music director).</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Opera</td>
<td align="center">2003</td>
<td align="center"><i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/The_End_of_the_Affair_(opera)" title="The End of the Affair (opera)">The End of the Affair</a></i></td>
<td>Libretto by Heather McDonald</td>
<td>An opera in two acts</td>
<td>Based on the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/The_End_of_the_Affair" title="The End of the Affair">novel of the same name</a> by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Graham_Greene_(writer)" title="Graham Greene (writer)" class="mw-redirect">Graham Greene</a>. Commissioned by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Houston_Grand_Opera" title="Houston Grand Opera">Houston Grand Opera</a>. Revised in 2004-2005.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Opera</td>
<td align="center">2005</td>
<td align="center"><i>At the Statue of Venus</i></td>
<td>Libretto by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Terrence_McNally" title="Terrence McNally">Terrence McNally</a></td>
<td>A musical scene for soprano and piano</td>
<td>Commissioned by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Opera_Colorado" title="Opera Colorado">Opera Colorado</a>.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Opera</td>
<td align="center">2006</td>
<td align="center"><i>To Hell and Back</i></td>
<td>Libretto by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gene_Scheer" title="Gene Scheer">Gene Scheer</a></td>
<td>An opera in one act for soprano, Broadway soprano and period instrument orchestra</td>
<td>Commissioned by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Philharmonia_Baroque_Orchestra" title="Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra">Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra</a>.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Opera</td>
<td align="center">2008</td>
<td align="center"><i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Three_Decembers" title="Three Decembers" class="mw-redirect">Three Decembers</a></i></td>
<td>Libretto by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gene_Scheer" title="Gene Scheer">Gene Scheer</a></td>
<td>An opera in one act</td>
<td>Based on <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Terrence_McNally" title="Terrence McNally">Terrence McNally</a>’s original script, "Some Christmas Letters." Commissioned by the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Houston_Grand_Opera" title="Houston Grand Opera">Houston Grand Opera</a> and co-commissioned by the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/San_Francisco_Opera" title="San Francisco Opera">San Francisco Opera</a> in association with Cal Performances at <a href="/enwiki/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">UC Berkeley</a>.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Opera</td>
<td align="center">2010</td>
<td align="center"><i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Moby-Dick_(opera)" title="Moby-Dick (opera)">Moby-Dick</a></i></td>
<td>Libretto by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gene_Scheer" title="Gene Scheer">Gene Scheer</a></td>
<td>An opera in two acts</td>
<td>Based on the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Moby-Dick" title="Moby-Dick">novel of the same name</a> by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Herman_Melville" title="Herman Melville">Herman Melville</a>. Commissioned by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Dallas_Opera" title="Dallas Opera">Dallas Opera</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/San_Francisco_Opera" title="San Francisco Opera">San Francisco Opera</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Calgary_Opera" title="Calgary Opera">Calgary Opera</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/San_Diego_Opera" title="San Diego Opera">San Diego Opera</a> and the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/State_Opera_of_South_Australia" title="State Opera of South Australia">State Opera of South Australia</a>.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Opera</td>
<td align="center">2012</td>
<td align="center"><i>Another Sunrise</i></td>
<td>Libretto by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gene_Scheer" title="Gene Scheer">Gene Scheer</a></td>
<td>Dramatic scene for soprano, clarinet, violin, cello, bass, and piano</td>
<td>Commissioned by Music of Remembrance (Mina Miller, artistic director)</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Opera</td>
<td align="center">2013</td>
<td align="center"><i>Out of Darkness</i></td>
<td>Libretto by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gene_Scheer" title="Gene Scheer">Gene Scheer</a></td>
<td>Opera in three parts for soprano, mezzo-soprano, baritone, actor, with flute, clarinet, violin, cello, bass and piano</td>
<td>Opera in three parts:
<ol>
<li>Another Sunrise</li>
<li>Farewell, Auschwitz</li>
<li>For a Look or a Touch</li>
</ol>
<p>Commissioned by Music of Remembrance (Mina Miller, artistic director). Each part received its premiere individually by Music of Remembrance.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Opera</td>
<td align="center">2014</td>
<td align="center"><i>The Radio Hour</i></td>
<td>Libretto by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gene_Scheer" title="Gene Scheer">Gene Scheer</a></td>
<td>Chamber opera for chamber choir, silent actress, flute, clarinet, alto sax, percussion, piano, violin, cello, and bass</td>
<td>Commissioned by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pacific_Chorale" title="Pacific Chorale">Pacific Chorale</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/VocalEssence" title="VocalEssence">VocalEssence</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Conspirare" title="Conspirare">Conspirare</a>, and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/The_Philadelphia_Singers" title="The Philadelphia Singers">The Philadelphia Singers</a>.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Opera</td>
<td align="center">2015</td>
<td align="center"><i>Great Scott</i></td>
<td>Libretto by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Terrence_McNally" title="Terrence McNally">Terrence McNally</a></td>
<td>An opera in two acts</td>
<td>Based on an original story by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Terrence_McNally" title="Terrence McNally">Terrence McNally</a>. Commissioned by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Dallas_Opera" title="Dallas Opera">Dallas Opera</a> and co-produced with <a href="/enwiki/wiki/San_Diego_Opera" title="San Diego Opera">San Diego Opera</a>.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">1992</td>
<td align="center"><i>Trois poemes de interieurs de Rainer Maria Rilke</i></td>
<td>Text by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke" title="Rainer Maria Rilke">Rainer Maria Rilke</a></td>
<td>For baritone and piano</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>Portrait intérieure</li>
<li>La porteuse de fleurs</li>
<li>Epilogue: C’est pour t’avoir vue</li>
</ol>
<p>Unpublished.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">1995</td>
<td align="center"><i>Encountertenor</i></td>
<td>Lyrics by John Hall</td>
<td>For countertenor and piano</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>Countertenor’s Conundrum</li>
<li>The trouble with trebles in trousers … (Pitch can be a bitch!)</li>
<li>A Gift to Share</li>
</ol>
<p>Commissioned by Brian Asawa.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">1995</td>
<td align="center"><i>Three Folk Songs</i></td>
<td>Traditional</td>
<td>For mezzo-soprano and piano</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>Barb'ry Allen</li>
<li>He's Gone Away</li>
<li>The Leather-Winged Bat</li>
</ol>
<p>Dedicated to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Frederica_von_Stade" title="Frederica von Stade">Frederica von Stade</a>.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">1995</td>
<td align="center"><i>I shall not live in vain</i></td>
<td>Poetry by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Emily_Dickinson" title="Emily Dickinson">Emily Dickinson</a></td>
<td>For mezzo-soprano and piano, and for mezzo-soprano solo with SA chorus, hand bells and piano</td>
<td>Song originally written in 1995, expanded and arranged for mezzo-soprano with SA chorus, hand bells and piano in 1998.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">1996</td>
<td align="center"><i>On the Road to Christmas</i></td>
<td>Texts by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/A.E._Housman" title="A.E. Housman" class="mw-redirect">A.E. Housman</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Frederica_von_Stade" title="Frederica von Stade">Frederica von Stade</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/John_Jacob_Niles" title="John Jacob Niles">John Jacob Niles</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Emily_Dickinson" title="Emily Dickinson">Emily Dickinson</a> and Jake Heggie</td>
<td>For mezzo-soprano and string orchestra</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>The Night is Freezing Fast (A.E. Housman)</li>
<li>The Car Ride to Christmas (von Stade)</li>
<li>Good King Merrily on High (traditional)</li>
<li>I wonder as I wander (Niles)</li>
<li>The Road to Bethlehem (Dickinson)</li>
<li>And then the Setting Sun (von Stade)</li>
<li>Christmas Time of Year (Heggie)</li>
</ol>
<p>Commissioned by the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/New_Century_Chamber_Orchestra" title="New Century Chamber Orchestra">New Century Chamber Orchestra</a>.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">1996</td>
<td align="center"><i>My true love hath my heart</i></td>
<td>Poetry by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sir_Philip_Sydney" title="Sir Philip Sydney" class="mw-redirect">Sir Philip Sydney</a></td>
<td>For soprano, cello and piano</td>
<td>Also arranged as a duet for soprano, mezzo, cello and piano.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">1996</td>
<td align="center"><i>Thoughts Unspoken</i></td>
<td>Lyrics by John Hall</td>
<td>For baritone and piano</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>A learning experience over coffee…</li>
<li>You enter my thoughts</li>
<li>To speak of love</li>
<li>Unspoken thoughts at bedtime</li>
</ol>
<p>Commissioned by Earle Patriarco.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">1997</td>
<td align="center"><i>Natural Selection</i></td>
<td>Poetry by Gini Savage</td>
<td>For soprano and piano</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>Creation</li>
<li>Animal Passion</li>
<li>Alas! Alack!</li>
<li>Indian Summer – Blue</li>
<li>Connection</li>
</ol>
<p>Music and poetry composed for Nicolle Foland.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">1997</td>
<td align="center"><i>So Many Notes!</i></td>
<td>Text by Jake Heggie</td>
<td>For 11 singers and orchestra</td>
<td>Commissioned by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/San_Francisco_Opera" title="San Francisco Opera">San Francisco Opera</a> to celebrate its 75th Season and the reopening of the War Memorial Opera House. Unpublished.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">1997</td>
<td align="center"><i>Paper Wings</i></td>
<td>Lyrics by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Frederica_von_Stade" title="Frederica von Stade">Frederica von Stade</a></td>
<td>For mezzo-soprano and piano, and for mezzo-soprano and full orchestra</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>Bedtime Story</li>
<li>Paper Wings</li>
<li>Mitten Smitten</li>
<li>A Route to the Sky</li>
</ol>
<p>Commissioned by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Frederica_von_Stade" title="Frederica von Stade">Frederica von Stade</a> and dedicated to her daughter, Lisa Elkus. Orchestration commissioned by the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Louisville_Orchestra" title="Louisville Orchestra">Louisville Orchestra</a> in 2000.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">1998</td>
<td align="center"><i>Before the Storm</i></td>
<td>Poetry by Judyth Walker, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Emily_Dickinson" title="Emily Dickinson">Emily Dickinson</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Edna_St._Vincent_Millay" title="Edna St. Vincent Millay">Edna St. Vincent Millay</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Dorothy_Parker" title="Dorothy Parker">Dorothy Parker</a></td>
<td>For mezzo-soprano, cello and piano</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>Before the Storm (Walker)</li>
<li>It sounded as if the streets were running (Dickinson)</li>
<li>What lips my lips have kissed (Millay)</li>
<li>The Thin Edge (Parker)</li>
</ol>
<p>Dedicated to <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Zheng_Cao" title="Zheng Cao">Zheng Cao</a>. Three songs based on works written in 1986, revised in 1998.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">1998</td>
<td align="center"><i>Songs to the Moon</i></td>
<td>Poetry by Vachal Lindsay</td>
<td>For mezzo-soprano and piano</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>Prologue: Once More – To Gloriana</li>
<li>Euclid</li>
<li>The Haughty Snail-King</li>
<li>What the Rattlesnake Said</li>
<li>The Moon’s the North Wind’s Cooky (What the little girl said)</li>
<li>What the Scarecrow Said</li>
<li>What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said</li>
<li>Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be (What Grandpa told the children)</li>
</ol>
<p>Commissioned for <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Frederica_von_Stade" title="Frederica von Stade">Frederica von Stade</a> by MUSIC ACCORD.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">1998</td>
<td align="center"><i>Everyone Sang</i></td>
<td>Poetry by Siegfried Sassoon</td>
<td>For baritone and piano</td>
<td>Unpublished.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">1999</td>
<td align="center"><i>Song and Sonnets to Ophelia</i></td>
<td>Text by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Edna_St._Vincent_Millay" title="Edna St. Vincent Millay">Edna St. Vincent Millay</a> and Jake Heggie</td>
<td>For soprano and piano</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>The Spring is Arisen; Ophelia’s Song (Heggie)</li>
<li>Women have loved before as I love now (Edna St. Vincent Millay)</li>
<li>Not in a silver casket cool with pearls (Millay)</li>
<li>Spring (Millay)</li>
</ol>
<p>Composed for Peggy Kriha-Dye.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">1999</td>
<td align="center"><i>Patterns</i></td>
<td>Poetry by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Amy_Lowell" title="Amy Lowell">Amy Lowell</a></td>
<td>For mezzo-soprano, SSAA chorus and piano</td>
<td>Commissioned by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/San_Francisco_Girls_Chorus" title="San Francisco Girls Chorus">San Francisco Girls Chorus</a> to celebrate its 20th anniversary.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">1999</td>
<td align="center"><i>From Emily's Garden</i></td>
<td>Poetry by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Emily_Dickinson" title="Emily Dickinson">Emily Dickinson</a></td>
<td>For soprano, flute, violin, cello, and piano</td>
<td>Unpublished.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2000</td>
<td align="center"><i>Of Gods and Cats</i></td>
<td>Poetry by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gavin_Geoffrey_Dillard" title="Gavin Geoffrey Dillard">Gavin Geoffrey Dillard</a></td>
<td>For mezzo-soprano and piano</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>In the beginning …</li>
<li>Once upon a universe</li>
</ol>
<p>Commissioned by Vija Nadai.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2000</td>
<td align="center"><i>How Well I Knew The Light</i></td>
<td>Poetry by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Emily_Dickinson" title="Emily Dickinson">Emily Dickinson</a></td>
<td>For soprano and piano</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>Ample Make This Bed</li>
<li>The Sun Kept Setting</li>
</ol>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2000</td>
<td align="center"><i>Eve-Song</i></td>
<td>Poetry by Philip Littell</td>
<td>For soprano and piano</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>My name</li>
<li>Even</li>
<li>Good</li>
<li>Listen</li>
<li>Snake</li>
<li>Woe to Man</li>
<li>The Wound</li>
<li>The Farm</li>
</ol>
<p>Commissioned by James Schwabacher.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2001</td>
<td align="center"><i>The Starry Night</i></td>
<td>Poetry by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ann_Sexton" title="Ann Sexton">Ann Sexton</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Emily_Dickinson" title="Emily Dickinson">Emily Dickinson</a>, and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/A._E._Housman" title="A. E. Housman">A. E. Housman</a>, with texts by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Vincent_Van_Gogh" title="Vincent Van Gogh" class="mw-redirect">Vincent Van Gogh</a></td>
<td>For mezzo-soprano and piano</td>
<td>Commissioned for mezzo-soprano <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Kristine_Jepson" title="Kristine Jepson">Kristine Jepson</a> by Evolutions in Song.</td>
</tr>
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<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2002</td>
<td align="center"><i>A Great Hope Fell: Songs from Civil War</i></td>
<td>Texts by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Maya_Angelou" title="Maya Angelou">Maya Angelou</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Paul_Laurence_Dunbar" title="Paul Laurence Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Emily_Dickinson" title="Emily Dickinson">Emily Dickinson</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Stephen_Foster" title="Stephen Foster">Stephen Foster</a> and others</td>
<td>For baritone and chamber orchestra</td>
<td>Commissioned by the Eos Orchestra (Jonathan Sheffer, conductor) for baritone Gordon Hawkins. Unpublished.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2002</td>
<td align="center"><i>The Deepest Desire</i></td>
<td>Text by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sister_Helen_Prejean" title="Sister Helen Prejean" class="mw-redirect">Sister Helen Prejean</a></td>
<td>For mezzo-soprano and piano, and for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>The Call; More is required; Love</li>
<li>I catch on fire</li>
<li>The deepest desire</li>
<li>Primary colors</li>
</ol>
<p>Commissioned by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bravo!_Vail" title="Bravo! Vail">Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival</a>. Orchestration commissioned by the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/St._Paul_Chamber_Orchestra" title="St. Paul Chamber Orchestra" class="mw-redirect">St. Paul Chamber Orchestra</a> in 2005.</p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2004</td>
<td align="center"><i>Some Times of Day</i></td>
<td>Text by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Raymond_Carver" title="Raymond Carver">Raymond Carver</a></td>
<td>For mezzo-soprano, violin, cello and piano</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>The Minuet</li>
<li>Simple</li>
<li>The Best Time of the Day</li>
</ol>
<p>Commissioned by the Harmida Trio.</p>
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<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2004</td>
<td align="center"><i>Winter Roses</i></td>
<td>Poetry by Charlene Baldridge, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Emily_Dickinson" title="Emily Dickinson">Emily Dickinson</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Frederica_von_Stade" title="Frederica von Stade">Frederica von Stade</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Raymond_Carver" title="Raymond Carver">Raymond Carver</a></td>
<td>For mezzo-soprano, string quintet, wind quintet and piano</td>
<td>
<p>Prologue: Winter Roses (Baldridge)</p>
<p>I. Two Birds</p>
<dl>
<dd>1. The Wren (Baldridge)</dd>
<dd>2. The Robin (Dickinson)</dd>
</dl>
<p>II. Three Shades (in memoriam C.v.S.)</p>
<dl>
<dd>3. A Hero (von Stade)</dd>
<dd>4. Sleeping (Carver)</dd>
<dd>5. To My Dad (von Stade)</dd>
</dl>
<p>III. Looking West</p>
<dl>
<dd>6. Sweet Light (Carver)</dd>
</dl>
<p>Epilogue: Late Fragment (Carver)</p>
<p>Commissioned by Richard and Luci Janssen for Camerata Pacifica.</p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2004</td>
<td align="center"><i>Vanity (blah blah me)</i></td>
<td>Text by Jake Heggie</td>
<td>For soprano and piano, and for soprano, clarinet, cello, bass, piano and percussion</td>
<td>Commissioned by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Carnegie_Hall" title="Carnegie Hall">Carnegie Hall</a> for <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Audra_McDonald" title="Audra McDonald">Audra McDonald</a> as part of a new cycle, “The Seven Deadly Sins” (also featuring compositions contributed by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Michael_John_LaChiusa" title="Michael John LaChiusa">Michael John LaChiusa</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Stephen_Flaherty" title="Stephen Flaherty">Stephen Flaherty</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ricky_Ian_Gordon" title="Ricky Ian Gordon">Ricky Ian Gordon</a> and others).</td>
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<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2004</td>
<td align="center"><i>Grow Old Along With Me!</i></td>
<td>Poetry by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Robert_Browning" title="Robert Browning">Robert Browning</a></td>
<td>For baritone and piano</td>
<td>Composed as a gift for baritone Robert Orth.</td>
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<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2005</td>
<td align="center"><i>Statuesque</i></td>
<td>Text by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gene_Scheer" title="Gene Scheer">Gene Scheer</a></td>
<td>For mezzo-soprano and piano; also, with chamber orchestra accompaniment</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>Henry Moore: Reclining Figure of Elmwood</li>
<li>Pablo Picasso: Head of a Woman, 1932</li>
<li>Hapshetsut: The Divine Potter</li>
<li>Alberto Giacommetti: Standing Woman #2</li>
<li>Winged Victory: We’re Through</li>
</ol>
<p>Commissioned by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/University_of_Kansas" title="University of Kansas">University of Kansas</a> at Lawrence for mezzo-soprano <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Joyce_Castle" title="Joyce Castle">Joyce Castle</a>.</p>
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</tr>
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<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2005</td>
<td align="center"><i>Here and Gone</i></td>
<td>Poetry by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/A.E._Housman" title="A.E. Housman" class="mw-redirect">A.E. Housman</a> and Vachal Lindsay</td>
<td>For tenor and baritone with violin, viola, cello and piano</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>The Farms of Home (Housman)</li>
<li>In Praise of Songs That Die (Lindsay)</li>
<li>Stars (Housman)</li>
<li>The Factory Window Song (Lindsay)</li>
<li>In the Morning (Housman)</li>
<li>Because I Liked You Better (Housman)</li>
<li>The Half-Moon Westers Low (Housman)</li>
</ol>
<p>Commissioned by Welz Kaufman and the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ravinia_Festival" title="Ravinia Festival">Ravinia Festival</a> for the Stearns Institute for Young Artists.</p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2005</td>
<td align="center"><i>The Other Other Woman</i></td>
<td>Lyrics by Mark Campbell</td>
<td>For male voice and piano</td>
<td>From <i>Songs from an Unmade Bed</i>, a stage work that features 18 songs by various composers with lyrics by Mark Campbell.</td>
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<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2007</td>
<td align="center"><i>Facing Forward/Looking Back</i></td>
<td>Poetry by Charlene Baldridge, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Eugenia_Zukerman" title="Eugenia Zukerman">Eugenia Zukerman</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Raymond_Carver" title="Raymond Carver">Raymond Carver</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Armistead_Maupin" title="Armistead Maupin">Armistead Maupin</a> and Jake Heggie</td>
<td>For soprano and mezzo-soprano with piano</td>
<td>Commissioned by Welz Kaufman and the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ravinia_Festival" title="Ravinia Festival">Ravinia Festival</a> for the Stearns Institute for Young Artists.</td>
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<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2007</td>
<td align="center"><i>Final monologue from <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Master_Class_(play)" title="Master Class (play)" class="mw-redirect">Master Class</a></i></td>
<td>Text by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Terrence_McNally" title="Terrence McNally">Terrence McNally</a></td>
<td>For mezzo-soprano and piano</td>
<td>Composed for mezzo-soprano <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Joyce_DiDonato" title="Joyce DiDonato">Joyce DiDonato</a> to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Merola_Opera_Program" title="Merola Opera Program">Merola Opera Program</a> and to remember the late James Schwabacher.</td>
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<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2008</td>
<td align="center"><i>Friendly Persuasions: Homage to Poulenc</i></td>
<td>Poetry by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gene_Scheer" title="Gene Scheer">Gene Scheer</a></td>
<td>For tenor and piano</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>Wanda Landowska</li>
<li>Pierre Bernac</li>
<li>Raymonde Linossier</li>
<li>Paul Eluard</li>
</ol>
<p>Based on four transformative friendships and meetings in Francis Poulenc’s life.</p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2011</td>
<td align="center"><i>Pieces of 9/11: Memories from Houston</i></td>
<td>Texts by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gene_Scheer" title="Gene Scheer">Gene Scheer</a></td>
<td>For soprano, baritone and girl soprano (age 14-18) with flute, guitar, violin and cello</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>Prelude; Lauren</li>
<li>Lessons</li>
<li>Phone Calls</li>
<li>That Moment On</li>
<li>Beyond</li>
<li>An Open Book</li>
</ol>
<p>Commissioned by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Houston_Grand_Opera" title="Houston Grand Opera">Houston Grand Opera</a>.</p>
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</tr>
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<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2011</td>
<td align="center"><i>A Question of Light</i></td>
<td>Texts by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gene_Scheer" title="Gene Scheer">Gene Scheer</a></td>
<td>For baritone and piano</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>The Light of Coincidences (Magritte)</li>
<li>Eccentric Flint (Maya c. AD 600-900)</li>
<li>Yellow Flowers in a Vase (Caillebotte)</li>
<li>Place de la Concorde (Mondrian)</li>
<li>El Hombre (Tamayo)</li>
<li>Watch (Murphy)</li>
</ol>
<p>Commissioned by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Dallas_Opera" title="Dallas Opera">Dallas Opera</a> in association with the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Dallas_Museum_of_Art" title="Dallas Museum of Art">Dallas Museum of Art</a> for baritone <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Nathan_Gunn" title="Nathan Gunn">Nathan Gunn</a>.</p>
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<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2011</td>
<td align="center"><i>The Years Roll By</i></td>
<td>Text by Charles Hart</td>
<td>For soprano and mezzo-soprano with piano</td>
<td>Composed for soprano <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Kiri_Te_Kanawa" title="Kiri Te Kanawa">Kiri Te Kanawa</a> and mezzo-soprano <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Frederica_von_Stade" title="Frederica von Stade">Frederica von Stade</a>.</td>
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<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2011</td>
<td align="center"><i>The Breaking Waves</i></td>
<td>Text by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sister_Helen_Prejean" title="Sister Helen Prejean" class="mw-redirect">Sister Helen Prejean</a></td>
<td>For mezzo-soprano and piano</td>
<td>Commissioned by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Carnegie_Hall" title="Carnegie Hall">Carnegie Hall</a> for mezzo-soprano <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Joyce_DiDonato" title="Joyce DiDonato">Joyce DiDonato</a> and pianist David Zobel.</td>
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<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2012</td>
<td align="center"><i>Farewell, Auschwitz</i></td>
<td>Texts adapted by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gene_Scheer" title="Gene Scheer">Gene Scheer</a></td>
<td>For soprano, mezzo-soprano, baritone and piano, or with clarinet, violin, cello, bass, and piano</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>Prologue: For Maria</li>
<li>Soldiers</li>
<li>Diamonds</li>
<li>In the Cards</li>
<li>Irenka</li>
<li>Miss Ziutka</li>
<li>The Sun and the Skylark</li>
<li>Farewell, Auschwitz</li>
</ol>
<p>Commissioned by Music of Remembrance (Mina Miller, Artistic Director).</p>
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<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2012</td>
<td align="center"><i>Camille Claudel: Into the Fire</i></td>
<td>Text by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gene_Scheer" title="Gene Scheer">Gene Scheer</a></td>
<td>For mezzo-soprano and string quartet</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>Rodin</li>
<li>La Valse</li>
<li>Shakuntala</li>
<li>La petite châtelaine</li>
<li>The Gossips</li>
<li>L’age mûr</li>
<li>Epilogue: Jessie Lipscomb visits Camille Claudel, Montdevergues Asylum, 1929</li>
</ol>
<p>Commissioned by San Francisco Performances.</p>
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<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2012</td>
<td align="center"><i>Of Laughter and Farewell</i></td>
<td>Poetry by Vachal Lindsay</td>
<td>For tenor or baritone and piano</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>By The Spring, At Sunset</li>
<li>Under the Blessing of Your Psyche Wings</li>
</ol>
<p>Commissioned by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ravinia_Festival" title="Ravinia Festival">Ravinia Festival</a> (2012) and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Opera_America" title="Opera America">Opera America</a> (2013).</p>
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</tr>
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<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2013</td>
<td align="center"><i>From "The Book of Nightmares"</i></td>
<td>Poetry by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Galway_Kinnell" title="Galway Kinnell">Galway Kinnell</a></td>
<td>For soprano, cello and piano</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>You Scream</li>
<li>In A Restaurant</li>
<li>My Father’s Eyes</li>
<li>Back You Go</li>
</ol>
<p>Composed for soprano Lisa Delan.</p>
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</tr>
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<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2013</td>
<td align="center"><i>For a Look or a Touch</i> (song cycle)</td>
<td>Libretto by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gene_Scheer" title="Gene Scheer">Gene Scheer</a></td>
<td>For baritone and piano, or baritone with flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano</td>
<td>Originally commissioned by Music of Remembrance as a stage work, the song cycle version was created in 2013.</td>
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<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2014</td>
<td align="center"><i>Newer Every Day: Songs for Kiri</i></td>
<td>Poetry by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Emily_Dickinson" title="Emily Dickinson">Emily Dickinson</a></td>
<td>For soprano and piano</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>Silence</li>
<li>I’m Nobody! Who are You?</li>
<li>Fame</li>
<li>That I did always love</li>
<li>Goodnight</li>
</ol>
<p>Commissioned by the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ravinia_Festival" title="Ravinia Festival">Ravinia Festival</a> in celebration of Dame <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Kiri_Te_Kanawa" title="Kiri Te Kanawa">Kiri Te Kanawa</a>’s 70th Birthday.</p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td>Vocal</td>
<td align="center">2015</td>
<td align="center"><i>The Work at Hand</i></td>
<td>Poetry by Laura Morefield</td>
<td>For mezzo-soprano, cello and piano; also for mezzo-soprano, cello and orchestra</td>
<td>Three symphonic songs based on poetry by the late Laura Morefield (1961-2011). Commissioned for mezzo-soprano <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jamie_Barton" title="Jamie Barton">Jamie Barton</a> and cellist Anne Martindale Williams by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Carnegie_Hall" title="Carnegie Hall">Carnegie Hall</a> and the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pittsburgh_Symphony" title="Pittsburgh Symphony" class="mw-redirect">Pittsburgh Symphony</a>.</td>
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<tr valign="top">
<td>Orchestral</td>
<td align="center">2001</td>
<td align="center">"Cut Time" Variations</td>
<td></td>
<td>For piano and chamber orchestra</td>
<td>Commissioned by the Eos Orchestra (Jonathan Sheffer, conductor) for pianist <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jeremy_Denk" title="Jeremy Denk">Jeremy Denk</a>.</td>
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<tr valign="top">
<td>Orchestral</td>
<td align="center">2002</td>
<td align="center">Orchestral episodes from <i>Dead Man Walking</i></td>
<td></td>
<td>For full orchestra</td>
<td>Commissioned by the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Dallas_Symphony" title="Dallas Symphony" class="mw-redirect">Dallas Symphony</a> (Andrew Litton, music director).</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Orchestral</td>
<td align="center">2002</td>
<td align="center"><i>Holy the Firm:</i> an essay for cello and orchestra</td>
<td>Inspired by the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Annie_Dillard#Holy_the_Firm" title="Annie Dillard">novel of the same name</a> by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Annie_Dillard" title="Annie Dillard">Annie Dillard</a></td>
<td>For solo cello and orchestra</td>
<td>Commissioned by the Oakland East Bay Symphony (Michael Morgan, conductor) for Emil Miland, cellist.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Orchestral</td>
<td align="center">2013</td>
<td align="center">Ahab Symphony</td>
<td>Texts by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Herman_Melville" title="Herman Melville">Herman Melville</a> (from "<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Moby-Dick" title="Moby-Dick">Moby-Dick</a>") and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/W.H._Auden" title="W.H. Auden" class="mw-redirect">W.H. Auden</a> (from his poem, “Herman Melville”)</td>
<td>For tenor solo, SATB choir and full orchestra</td>
<td>Commissioned by the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/University_of_North_Texas" title="University of North Texas">University of North Texas</a>.</td>
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<tr valign="top">
<td>Choral</td>
<td align="center">1987</td>
<td align="center"><i>Faith Disquiet</i></td>
<td>Poetry by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Emily_Dickinson" title="Emily Dickinson">Emily Dickinson</a></td>
<td>For SATB Chorus (a cappella)</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>“Why do I love” You, Sir?</li>
<li>What if I say I shall not wait!</li>
<li>If you were coming in the fall</li>
</ol>
<p>Commissioned by the UCLA Choir (William Hatcher, conductor).</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Choral</td>
<td align="center">1999</td>
<td align="center"><i>Anna Madrigal Remembers</i></td>
<td>Text by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Armistead_Maupin" title="Armistead Maupin">Armistead Maupin</a></td>
<td>For mezzo-soprano and 12 solo male voices</td>
<td>Commissioned by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Chanticleer" title="Chanticleer" class="mw-disambig">Chanticleer</a>. Unpublished.</td>
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<td>Choral</td>
<td align="center">2001</td>
<td align="center"><i>My Grandmother's Love Letters</i></td>
<td>Poetry by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hart_Crane" title="Hart Crane">Hart Crane</a></td>
<td>For SATB Chorus and orchestra</td>
<td>Commissioned by the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Choral_Arts_Society_of_Philadelphia" title="Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia">Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia</a> (Donald Nally, artistic director).</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Choral</td>
<td align="center">2003</td>
<td align="center"><i>He will gather us around</i> from <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Dead_Man_Walking_(opera)" title="Dead Man Walking (opera)">Dead Man Walking</a></i></td>
<td>Libretto by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Terrence_McNally" title="Terrence McNally">Terrence McNally</a></td>
<td>For SATB Chorus (a cappella)</td>
<td>An arrangement of the original hymn tune from the opera, <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Dead_Man_Walking_(opera)" title="Dead Man Walking (opera)">Dead Man Walking</a></i>.</td>
</tr>
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<td>Choral</td>
<td align="center">2006</td>
<td align="center"><i>Seeking Higher Ground: Bruce Springsteen Rocks New Orleans, April 30, 2006</i></td>
<td>Text by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sister_Helen_Prejean" title="Sister Helen Prejean" class="mw-redirect">Sister Helen Prejean</a></td>
<td>For double SATB chorus with full orchestra</td>
<td>Commissioned by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pacific_Chorale" title="Pacific Chorale">Pacific Chorale</a>.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Choral</td>
<td align="center">2011</td>
<td align="center"><i>A Hundred Thousand Stars</i> from <i>A Look or a Touch</i></td>
<td>Text by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gene_Scheer" title="Gene Scheer">Gene Scheer</a></td>
<td>For TTBB Chorus and piano, or with flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano</td>
<td>This chorus was added to <i>For a Look or a Touch</i> when the original stage work was expanded for the Seattle Men’s Chorus in 2011.</td>
</tr>
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<td>Choral</td>
<td align="center">2012</td>
<td align="center"><i>Six Christmas Traditions</i></td>
<td>Lyrics by Mark Campbell</td>
<td>For SATB choir with piano, flute and oboe</td>
<td>Commissioned by Renaissance City Choirs (Pittsburgh, PA).</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Choral</td>
<td align="center">2013</td>
<td align="center"><i>For a Look or a Touch</i> (choral)</td>
<td>Libretto by Gene Scheer</td>
<td>For baritone, men’s chorus, actor, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion</td>
<td>Originally commissioned by Music of Remembrance, this second incarnation was commissioned by the Seattle Men’s Chorus and The Boston Gay Men’s Chorus.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Choral</td>
<td align="center">2013</td>
<td align="center"><i>The Narrow Bridge</i></td>
<td>Text by Pamela Stewart</td>
<td>For TTBB Chorus</td>
<td>Final movement of <i>Tyler's Suite</i>, featuring compositions by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Nolan_Gasser" title="Nolan Gasser">Nolan Gasser</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Stephen_Schwartz" title="Stephen Schwartz" class="mw-disambig">Stephen Schwartz</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ann_Hampton_Callaway" title="Ann Hampton Callaway">Ann Hampton Callaway</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/John_Corigliano" title="John Corigliano">John Corigliano</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/John_Bucchino" title="John Bucchino">John Bucchino</a>, and Lance Horne. Commissioned by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Choral</td>
<td align="center">2015</td>
<td align="center"><i>Stop This Day and Night with Me</i></td>
<td>Poetry from <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Walt_Whitman" title="Walt Whitman">Walt Whitman</a>’s "<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass" title="Leaves of Grass">Leaves of Grass</a>"</td>
<td>For SATB chorus (a cappella)</td>
<td>Composed for <a href="/enwiki/wiki/The_King%E2%80%99s_Singers" title="The King’s Singers" class="mw-redirect">The King’s Singers</a> as The Raymond W. Brock Commission for the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/American_Choral_Directors_Association" title="American Choral Directors Association">American Choral Directors Association</a>.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Instrumental</td>
<td align="center">1982</td>
<td align="center">Indiana Bound</td>
<td></td>
<td>For piano</td>
<td>Unpublished.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Instrumental</td>
<td align="center">1983</td>
<td align="center">Inishfallen</td>
<td></td>
<td>Suite for piano</td>
<td>Unpublished.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Instrumental</td>
<td align="center">1984</td>
<td align="center">Lugalla</td>
<td></td>
<td>For string quartet</td>
<td>Unpublished.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Instrumental</td>
<td align="center">1985</td>
<td align="center">Glengariff Trio</td>
<td></td>
<td>For violin, cello and piano</td>
<td>Unpublished.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Instrumental</td>
<td align="center">1985</td>
<td align="center">Inishfree</td>
<td></td>
<td>For two pianos</td>
<td>Unpublished.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Instrumental</td>
<td align="center">1986</td>
<td align="center">Skellig Variations</td>
<td></td>
<td>For two pianos</td>
<td>Unpublished.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Instrumental</td>
<td align="center">1987</td>
<td align="center">Rhosymedre</td>
<td></td>
<td>For two pianos</td>
<td>Unpublished.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Instrumental</td>
<td align="center">1988</td>
<td align="center"><i>One Day at the Duck Pond</i>: illustrations with music to write stories to (children's book)</td>
<td>Drawings and music by Jake Heggie</td>
<td>For piano</td>
<td>Unpublished.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Instrumental</td>
<td align="center">1990</td>
<td align="center">Divertimento</td>
<td></td>
<td>For two pianos</td>
<td>Unpublished.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Instrumental</td>
<td align="center">1991</td>
<td align="center">Christmas Nocturnes</td>
<td></td>
<td>For piano</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>Est is ein Ros’</li>
<li>Coventry Carol</li>
<li>O Come, Emanuel</li>
<li>The Holly and the Ivy</li>
<li>I Saw Three Ships</li>
<li>I Wonder as I Wander</li>
<li>Silent Night</li>
</ol>
<p>Arrangement by Jake Heggie. Unpublished.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Instrumental</td>
<td align="center">1996</td>
<td align="center">Coward/Cabaret</td>
<td></td>
<td>For cello and piano</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>Mad About the Boy</li>
<li>Someday I’ll Find You</li>
<li>Meme les anges</li>
</ol>
<p>Music by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Noel_Coward" title="Noel Coward" class="mw-redirect">Noel Coward</a>, arrangement by Jake Heggie. Unpublished.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Instrumental</td>
<td align="center">2010</td>
<td align="center">Fury of Light</td>
<td>Inspired by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Mary_Oliver" title="Mary Oliver">Mary Oliver</a>'s poem, <i>Sunrise</i></td>
<td>For flute and piano; also for flute and chamber orchestra</td>
<td>Commissioned for flutist <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Carol_Wincenc" title="Carol Wincenc">Carol Wincenc</a> by Linda & Stuart Nelson. Orchestration created in 2010.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Instrumental</td>
<td align="center">2012</td>
<td align="center">Orcas Island Ferry</td>
<td></td>
<td>Suite for violin/viola and piano</td>
<td>
<ol>
<li>Crossing</li>
<li>On and Off</li>
<li>The Shoreline Lullabye</li>
<li>Whistling and Listening</li>
<li>In Tows and Threes (Motor Rhythm)</li>
</ol>
<p>Commissioned by the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>Instrumental</td>
<td align="center">2012</td>
<td align="center">Soliloquy</td>
<td></td>
<td>For flute and piano</td>
<td>A setting of the song <i>Beyond</i> (from <i>Pieces of 9/11</i>) commissioned by Camerata Pacifica (Adrian Spence, artistic director).</td>
</tr>
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