 |
Selected Works
Composer - Persis Parshall Vehar (ASCAP)
Choral Works
The Word Was God (satb & organ [or piano]) 8:30
For God Is Love (sab) 3:00
Spring Things (ssa & piano) 3:30
Shawnee Press
Mourning Bird (satb & piano) 3:00
Colla Voce
 Photo: Jim Bush |
Ho-La-Li-Days (3-part voices, optional 2 flutes/recorders & violoncello) 3:00
Beach at Sundown (2-part voices& piano) 2:30
Faith, Hope, Love (ssa, string orchestra & two horns) 11:00
What the Lark Said (3-part voices, 2 flutes & piano) 4:00
Lullaby (satb) 4:00
Colla Voce
The Yellow Monster (3-part voices & opt. percussion 1-4) 4:00
The Lord is My Keeper (ssaa, percussion I & tympani) 6:00
Reflections on Childhood (satb) 3:00
Swan of Avon (3-part voices, satb, 2 trumpets & piano) 9:00
Doreen Rao’s Conductors’ Choice Series pub. By Boosey & Hawkes
Missa Brevis Pro Pace (soprano, satb & string orchestra) 10:00
Northfield Press
A Canadian Boat Song (2-part voices & piano) 2:30
Doreen Rao’s Choral Music Experience pub. by Boosey & Hawkes
Hodie Christus Natus Est (3-pt. voices, 2 trpts. & trombone or keyboard) 3:30
Song of Life (satb) from the opera A Hill of Bones 3:00
A Whitman Salute (soprano, satb string orchestra & piano) 11:00
Cantate Domino (satb, piano. & opt. percussion quartet) 5:00
Zoo-Day (3-part voices & piano) 4:00
Dona Nobis Pacem (satb) 4:00
Rodney Eichenberger Series pub. by Colla Voce
O Sacrum Convivium! (satb with optional keyboard) 3:30
Peace Requiem (satb, children’s chorus, soprano & bass soloists, full orchestra) 35:00
Dormi Jesu (satb) 3:30
Ubi Caritas (satb with echo chorus) 4:00
The Music of the Spheres (children’s chorus, satb & chamber orchestra) 12:00
Edges (ssa & piano) 6:00
The Cathedral of the Universe (satb & organ or piano) 5:00
Laughing Song (2-pt. voices & piano) 3:24
O Magnum Mysterium (satb) 4:50
Kaddish (In Memoriam Warren Benson) (for double choir--satb) 3:30
Gloria (satb & piano or organ) 4:15
Psalm 100 (satb, 3 trumpets, handbell choir, & organ or piano) 8:00
The Heart Replies To Music (satb & piano) 3:30
Songs
Verbum Caro Factum Est (medium voice & keyboard) 3:30
My Love Is Come To Me (high voice & piano) 3:00
The Laughing Song (soprano & string quartet) 2:00
In Praise of Mercy (soprano & string orchestra) 8:00
Hearing Music (soprano, flute/clarinet, oboe/viola & piano) 2:30
She Never Told Her Love (soprano, flute or clarinet & piano or harpsichord) 3:00
Moods of the Pacific (soprano & piano) 6:00
Song Cycles
Three Shakespeare Sonnets (Soprano & Piano) 10:15
Random Thoughts (Soprano & Piano) 20:23
Through Another Season (soprano, flute, oboe, cello & piano) 9:00
Walden Thoughts (baritone & woodwind trio) 9:30
Sonnets (mezzo-soprano & piano) 13:30
Millay-sia (soprano & string orchestra) 15:00
Emily D. (soprano, flute, oboe/clarinet & piano) 11:00
Women, Women (soprano & piano) 6:00
Leyerle Publications
Three from Emily (high voice, cello & piano) 9:00
Leyerle Publications
In a Shine Tangent to the Planet at Evening (soprano, oboe & English horn, bassoon & piano) 15:00
Three Renaissance Tableaux 7:00
(high voice, oboe/flute/clarinet/violin, bassoon/violoncello & piano)
Ghosts of Lindsay (bass & piano) 13:00
The Smith Songs (soprano, tenor, string orchestra & synthesizer/organ) 20:00
Butterfly Songs (mezzo soprano & piano) 13:58
Three Walking Songs (soprano, cello & piano) 15:00
From Buk’s Battered Heart (bass & piano) 14:45
Bukowski: Out of Absurdity (bass & piano) 15:00
Bukowski: Blood, Guts & Tears (bass & piano) 13:45
Bukowski: Love Iz a Big Fat Turkey and Every Day Iz Thanksgiving (bass & piano) 7:30
Everyone Suddenly Burst Out Singing (voice, flute & guitar) 9:30
Radiance (soprano, flute & piano) 8:00
Emily’s World (voice & piano) 15:00
In the Palace of Time (countertenor & piano) 10:00
Life, Love & Timelessness (high voice, clarinet, & piano) 13:05
12 Haiku Love Songs (soprano & piano) 18:15
In the World We Leave Our Children (for voice & piano) 15:00
Opera
A Hill of Bones 45:00
(soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, non-singing child & chamber orchestra or two keyboards)
French Friends (soprano, baritone & piano) 30:00
Bukowski: Larger Than Life (bass & piano) 30:00
George Sand...And Chopin? (mezzo or soprano, tenor & piano) 30:00
The 4th Wise Man 30:00
(non-singing actor, children’s chorus, satb chorus, soprano, mezzo soprano, 3 tenors, baritone,
bass baritone, & 2 basses with piano)
Eleanor Roosevelt 90:00
(soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, bass and three-woman chorus [SSA])
SHOT! 120:30
(4 sopranos, 1 mezzo soprano, 4 tenors, 3 baritones, 1 bass-baritone, 5 basses, chorus,
& full orchestra)
Pushed Aside 120:00
(2 Sopranos, 3 mezzo sopranos, 1 tenor, 1 baritone, 1 bass, and optional Chorus)
Solo Keyboard
Lullaby for Gabrielle 2:00
Gallery Walk 1 (Albright Knox) 8:00
Nine Silences for Song (piano/narrator) 8:30
Waltz for a French Ancestor 1:30
Gallery Walk 2 “Parker Treescapes” 12:30
Gallery Walk 3 “Two Sides of Michael Tunney” 5:30
Sound-Piece for Organ 12:00
Hudson River Diary 7:00
Gallery Walk 4 “Homage to Monet” 5:00
Solo Instrumental Works
Four Pieces for Alto Saxophone & Piano 8:30
Tenuto Publications
Three Pieces for Clarinet & Piano 8:15
Lord Amherst March (trumpet & piano) 2:30
Kendor Music, Inc.
Foursquare (unaccompanied trumpet) 6:30
Kendor Music, Inc.
Sounds of the Outdoors (unaccompanied alto saxophone) 8:00
Kendor Music, Inc.
Circles in Space (unaccompanied flute) 5:00
Almitra Music
Trilogy for Friends Remembered (unaccompanied trombone) 6:00
Four Developments (bassoon & piano) 8:00
Sound-Piece for Trumpet, Tlugelhorn, Piccolo Trumpet & Piano 15:12
Pierrot Discovers Spring (violin & piano) 4:30
Yesteryear Suite (english horn & harpsichord/piano) 8:00
Sound-Piece for Clarinet & Piano 13:00
Time Studies (guitar) 11:00
Sweet, Silent Thought (flute & piano) 4:00
Jukebox Dances (clarinet & piano) 8:24
Remembering Paris with Nostalgia (violin & piano) 10:00
Two Ways of Being (unaccompanied cello) 6:40
Instrumental Chamber Music
Sonata for Brass Quintet 8:00
Prelude and Dance (clarinet, oboe & bassoon) 6:30
Promenade and Cakewalk (saxophone quartet-satb) 5:30
Dorn Publications
A Frame of Reference for All Time (flute, oboe & piano) 6:00
A Day Off (violin, alto saxophone & piano) 11:00
Sonata for Saxophone Quartet (satb) 16:30
Dorn Publications
Three Brevities (percussion quartet) 6:30
String Quartet No. 1 (1989) 17:00
Lux Aeterna-Roman Amphitheatre in Pula (flugelhorn/trumpet, cello & piano) 5:30
Whimsies (percussion trio) 15:00
Tous Deux (2 alto saxophones) 6:00
North Country Suite (guitar quartet) 12:00
Sea Pieces (woodwind quintet) 9:34
The Four Directions (brass & percussion) 17:00
Night Lights-Paris (violin, cello & piano) 8:30
View from the Mountain Top (2 trumpets & organ) 9:45
Life Dances (soprano saxophone, alto saxophone & piano) 11:30
C. F. Peters Corp.
Watercolors - Blues & Raucous Reds (guitar quartet) 4:25
City Portrait (trumpet, trombone & piano) 12:00
String Quartet No. 2 “Spring” 13:45
The Seasons (flute/alto flute, oboe/english horn, clarinet & piano) 18:00
Let the Games Begin! (flute, oboe, & clarinet) 6:00
To Music (flute, oboe, clarinet & piano) 3:30
Endlessness (clarinet, cello & piano) 13:00
String Quartet #3 - “Nature Walk” 13:35
Voice & Chamber Works
Mystic Trumpeter (Baritone voice, Trumpet & Strong Orchestra) 10:20
Wind Ensemble
Winter Mountain (narrator & wind ensemble) 9:40
View from the Catskills (wind ensemble) 3:00
Pan-American Overture (symphonic band) 4:00
Fanfare of Praise (wind ensemble) 3:00
Solo Concerti
Quintus-Concertino (alto saxophone & wind ensemble) 7:30
In Celebration (string orchestra & piano) 14:00
Night Concerto (piano & chamber orchestra) 11;00
Bright Phoenix Ascending (alto saxophone & wind ensemble) 9:00
City of Light Concerto (clarinet & orchestra) 22:00
Notes From The Heart (oboe/english horn & string orchestra) 9:45
Infinite Dance for Solo Trumpet/Flugelhorn/Piccolo Trumpet and Wind Ensemble 8:30
Orchestral Works
Requiem For Heroes (full orchestra) 6:30
Four Attitudes (string orchestra) 12:00
Light/Lux/Svietlo (full orchestra) 5:18
The Inevitable Dawn (full orchestra) 5:00
With Roses (string orchestra) 4:00
Northfield Press
Strolling Dinosaurs (elementary string orchestra) 3:00
Northfield Press
Above the Brightness of the Sun (high school string orchestra) 2:05
Northfield Press
The Aliens Come To Visit! (elementary string orchestra) 2:00
Northfield Press
Symphony # I: Resurrection of the Spirit (full orchestra) 25:00
L’Acqua Diversa Di Vivaldi (string orchestra & harpsichord) 8:30
Storm Warning! (elementary string orchestra) 3:30
Northfield Press
Frank Lloyd Wright Suite (full orchestra) 8:15
Golden Griffin Overture (full orchestra) 5:00
Finding Love (string orchestra) 9:00
Dance
Steps #12 (flute/piccolo, alto sax & 2 perc.) 13;00
NOTE: Works not listed by another publisher are published by V I F and available from the composer.