Compositions

Explore the works of the award-winning composer.

“Any composer worth his salt doesn’t really care which trends he fits and which he doesn’t. Any composer worth listening to writes the music that’s inside him trying to get out. If you write with enough integrity, originality will come as a byproduct.”

- Gordon Getty

Ancestor Suite

Piano Orchestra

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

Andantino

For piano
Duration: 3:30

Annabel Lee

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

Ballet Russe

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

Beauty Come Dancing

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

La Belle Dame sans Merci

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

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

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

The Destruction of Sennacherib

For SATB chorus or soloist and chamber orchestra
Duration: 3:40
Poem by Lord Byron

First Adventure

For piano
Duration: 1:30

Follow Me

For Piano
Duration: 2:50

For a Dead Lady

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