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Spring Song

For Cello
Duration: 1:56

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Winter Song

For Cello
Duration: 2:45

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Ancestor Suite

For orchestra or piano
Duration: 27:00
Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story

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Andantino

For piano
Duration: 3:30

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Annabel Lee

For TB chorus and orchestra
Duration: 6:00
Poem by Edgar Allan Poe

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Ballet Russe

For SATB chorus and orchestra
Duration: 2:30
Poem by John Masefield

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Beauty Come Dancing

For SATB chorus and chamber orchestra
Duration: 2:45
Poem by Gordon Getty

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La Belle Dame sans Merci

For SATB chorus and orchestra
Duration: 8:25
Poem by John Keats

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The Canterville Ghost

Opera
Duration: 60:00
Libretto: Gordon Getty based on Oscar Wilde’s “The Canterville Ghost”/ May be performed as “Scare Pair” with “Usher House”

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Cynara

For TB chorus or solo tenor and chamber orchestra
Duration: 4:45
Poem (Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae) by Ernest Christopher Dowson

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The Destruction of Sennacherib

For SATB chorus or soloist and chamber orchestra
Duration: 3:40

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First Adventure

For piano
Duration: 1:30

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For a Dead Lady

For chorus and orchestra
Duration: 3:15
Poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson

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Four Christmas Carols

For children’s chorus or women’s chorus and orchestra
Duration: 7:30
Texts by Gordon Getty
Companion piece to “Silent Night”

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Four Dickinson Songs

For voice and piano or orchestra
Duration: 6:30
Poems by Emily Dickinson

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Four Traditional Pieces

For piano, chamber ensemble, or orchestra
Duration: 14:00

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Opera
Duration: 120:00
Libretto by Gordon Getty based on James Hilton’s novella

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Gretchen to Faust

For SA chorus and orchestra
Duration: 5:30
Companion piece to “Mephistopheles to Faust”

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Homework Suite

For orchestra, string quartet, string quintet, or piano
Duration: 5:15

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Hostess’s Aria

For mezzo-soprano and orchestra
Duration: 4:00
Libretto by Gordon Getty based on Shakespeare’s “Falstaff”
From the opera “Plump Jack”

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Impenitent Ultima

For TB chorus and orchestra
Duration: 5:12
Poem by Ernest Christopher Dowson

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Joan and the Bells

For soloists, SATB chorus, and orchestra
Duration: 17:00
Libretto by Gordon Getty based on the legend of Joan of Arc

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Kathie’s Aria

For soprano and piano
Duration: 4:20
Libretto by Gordon Getty based on James Hilton’s novella
From the opera “Goodbye, Mr. Chips”

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Kathie Trio

For violin, cello, and piano
Duration: 9:35
From the opera “Goodbye, Mr. Chips”

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The Little Match Girl

For SATB chorus and orchestra
Duration: 20:00
Based on Hans Christian Andersen’s short story

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Mephistopheles to Faust

For chorus and orchestra
Duration: 2:35

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No My Good Lord

For baritone and orchestra
Duration: 2 minutes

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The Old Man in the Morning

For SATB chorus and orchestra
Duration: 3:00
Poem by Gordon Getty

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The Old Man in the Night

For SATB chorus and orchestra
Duration: 15:30
Poem by Gordon Getty

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The Old Man in the Snow

For SATB chorus and orchestra
Duration: 7:40
Poem by Gordon Getty

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Overture to Plump Jack

For orchestra
Duration: 11 minutes

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Plump Jack

Opera
Duration: 2 hours

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Poor Peter

For high voice and orchestra
Duration: 7:40

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A Prayer for My Daughter

For chorus or solo voice and orchestra
Duration: 12 minutes

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Raise the Colors

For piano or orchestra
Duration: 3 minutes

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Scherzo Pensieroso

For piano
Duration: 3 minutes

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Shenandoah

For SATB chorus and/or baritone and orchestra
Duration: 3:00

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Silent Night

For chorus and chamber orchestra
Duration: 3:30

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There Was a Naughty Boy

For chorus and orchestra
Duration: 3:20

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Those Who Love The Most

For chorus and orchestra
Duration: 2:35

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Three Welsh Songs

For chorus and orchestra
Duration: 8 minutes

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Usher House

Opera
Duration: 1 hour

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Victorian Scenes

For chorus and orchestra
Duration: 12 minutes

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Where Is My Lady

For tenor and orchestra
Duration: 4 minutes

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The White Election

Songs for soprano and piano
Duration: 70 minutes

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Young America

For chorus and orchestra
Duration: 20 minutes

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