Secular Accompanied Concert Music

Leonora Speyer's inspirational poem encourages singers to take hold of their limitless potential. Ascending vocal lines stretch across a driving accompaniment as if reaching out to grasp the expanse

"'Tis a human thing, love, a holy thing, to love what death has touched." Medieval poet and philosopher Yehuda Halevi's profound text explores the risky nature of love. Ivory's musical setting is mysterious

This lush, award-winning work with soprano solo hauntingly sets Amy Lowell's "Listening" text in a harmonically lush manner. The piano accompaniment and French horn solo work in partnership with the choral