PROJECT : ENCORE™: 5-10 minutes

This setting of the Seven Last Words incorporates the theme of Dies Irae throughout the work. Each movement has a different style. A good choir and soloists are needed. The orchestra is relatively small: single winds, FH, Timpany and strings.

The poem "To a Locomotive in Winter" by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) was first published in "Two Rivulets" in 1876, and subsequently published in "Leaves of Grass" in 1900. The music by Greg Bartholomew was completed in January 2001.  The choral work received a reading by the Gregg Smith Singers at the 2001 Adirondack Festival of American Music. The Oregon Repertory Singers presented the premiere performance at the Oregon Bach Festival on Saturday, July 6, 2002.

On a Mountain Path was composed in the fall and winter of 2008-2009 for Voci Chamber Chorus. The inspiration for the piece came from the theme of the concert it was composed for: mountains and rivers with an East-meets-West subtheme. As I contemplated how I might realize this theme, I was immediately drawn to the idea of setting haiku. I have always been attracted to the simplicity and austerity of the form, and the wonderful invention it has inspired. I settled on five texts by Basho that all feature mountains. “Natsu kodachi” centers around a pun on th

This piece was inspired by looking at pictures of the Amazon River and its tributaries. It follows a rain drop from a melting snow pile through streams, pristine lakes, stagnant waters choked with algae, polluted tributaries, huge rivers, and finally into the ocean.