Her Story (2022) 40'
10 women's voices and orchestra
Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Nashville Symphony, National Symphony, San Francisco Symphony
Works
Chorus/Vocal
Letter from Abigail (2022) 20'
chorus + chamber ensemble SATB, 2 perc, piano, strings
Robert Baker Commissioning Fund for Sacred Music at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music
a girl (2017) 4'
text in Yiddish, by an anonymous author
women's choir
The Choir of California Lutheran University
Cloud River Mountain (2015, rev. 2017) 32'
music by Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Lau Luo
soprano, cl, perc, egtr, piano, vc, db
commissioned by Maria and Robert A. Skirnick and Arts Brookfield
Anthracite Fields (2014) 65'
SATB chorus, cl, egtr, perc, pno, vc, db
Anthracite Fields was commissioned through Meet the Composer's Commissioning Music/USA program, which is made possible by generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Helen F. Whitaker Fund. Additional support was made possible through the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia Alan Harler New Ventures Fund; the Presser Foundation; The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Philadelphia Music Project.
You breathe (2013) 7'
SATB + string quartet
Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Guard my tongue (2009) 8'
SATB
University of Wisconsin River Falls
Steel Hammer (2009) 70'
SSA, cl, perc, gtr, pf, vc, db
Maria and Robert A. Skirnick and Carnegie Hall
battle hymns (2009) 50'
Text by David Lang (after Sullivan Ballou, Stephen Foster and Abraham Lincoln)
large chorus, plus one snare drum
Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia and Leah Stein Dance Company
Thirst (2008) 27'
SATB; 1111(cbn)/1110/2perc/pf/egtr/str(1.1.1.1.1)