After the Rain [for Michael Lynn, 2012]
An Evening at Casa Nuestra [for Katrina, Gene, and Liam, Napa Valley, 2013]
A Silence at the Edge of Music [in honor of Cathy Meints, 2016]
A Suite from the Baroque [a villanelle for Chris Krueger, 2012]
A Tilted Ground [a sestina for Carol Copeland on her 90th birthday]
A Villanelle [for Carol Hoffmann, 2005]
Another Eagle [written on a kayaking trip in Alaska]
Beginning Viol Class [an Italian sonnet for Mary Anne Ballard; the class was at the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin]
Brahms Trio [This sonnet was written during the last full year we owned Point CounterPoint Music Camp]
Deer Hill [This was written in the Navajo territory on a trip with friends, after a death in the family. Deer Hill is an outdoor adventure school]
Getting Serious about Music [for Chris Krueger, 2016]
Orkney Ruins [written on leaving Orkney, 2016]
Playing by Memory [for Marcelle and Paul Lipke; written after Early Music Week at Pinewoods, Massachusetts, 2008; as published in the Pinewoods newsletter]
Poetry [a sonnet for Marilyn McDonald, 2011]
Reading “The Snow Man” [“The Snow Man” is a poem by Wallace Stevens]
Saints [written on an exhibition of Renaissance art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin 2013]
The Caldwell Collection at Night [an Italian sonnet for Cathy Meints Caldwell, 2012, published later in The Caldwell Collection of Viols]
The Muse’s Lament [a sonnet for Florence Peacock, 2012]
Tombeau for M. Froberger [in terse rima, for Webb Wiggins, 2011. Froberger was a Baroque harpsichordist and composer in the 17th century; I imagine him dying in the chateau of Sybilla, Duchess of Montbéliard. One of Froberger’s harpsichord pieces describes the death of a lutenist by a fall downstairs. Webb Wiggins’s superb performances of Froberger can be found at Amazon.
Watching Humpback Whales from a Beach at Low Tide [written on a kayaking trip in Alaska]
Weaving [for Carol Copeland on her 70th birthday, 1984]
Well Hall [a villanelle for Mary Briggs and John Krzywicki, written after Early Music Week, 2007. “Well Hall” is an English country dance. My poem was set to music by Mary Alice Amidon: here’s the score, and here’s she and I playing it]