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Perusal scores for Abel's works for voice and piano can be accessed through the links below the titles.
Scores for the song cycles "The Ocean of Forgiveness," "The Palm Trees Are Restless," "The Dark-Eyed Chameleon," "Rainbow Songs" and the "Five Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke" are available for purchase from Classical Vocal Reprints at this link. Scores for "Those Who Loved Medusa," "In the Rear View Mirror, Now," "The Invocation" and "The Benediction" can be obtained by request through this site's Contact page. Perusal full scores for the opera "Home Is a Harbor" and the orchestral song cycle "The Dream Gallery" are also available by request. HOME IS A HARBOR (piano/vocal score) Act I Act II Act III THE OCEAN OF FORGIVENESS Five Poems of Joanne Regenhardt (for mezzo or soprano) Desert Wind Sally's Suicide In Love With the Sky Reunion Patience (See the analysis of this cycle by Kathleen Roland-Silverstein in The Journal of Singing. ©2018 National Association of Teachers of Singing. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved) THE PALM TREES ARE RESTLESS Five Poems of Kate Gale (for high or medium soprano) The Storm Drain Los Angeles Crater Light Shura The Great Divorce (See the analysis of this cycle by Kathleen Roland-Silverstein in The Journal of Singing. ©2016 National Association of Teachers of Singing. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved) THE DARK-EYED CHAMELEON (for soprano) The Burned Horizon Full Sail Premonition Your Girl Cataclysm RAINBOW SONGS (for soprano) It Was an Evening Breezes Blow and Eagles Fly La Sonnambula The Guest FIVE POEMS OF RAINER MARIA RILKE (for soprano) In This Town the Last House Stands My Life is Not This Steeply Sloping Hour All of You Undisturbed Cities You Darkness, That I Come From I Live My Life in Growing Orbits (See the analysis of this cycle by Judith Carman in The Journal of Singing. ©2014 National Association of Teachers of Singing. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved) THE INVOCATION (solo song for mezzo soprano) THOSE WHO LOVED MEDUSA (concert aria for soprano, piano and percussion) IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR, NOW (for soprano, piano and organ) The Long Goodbye The World Clock The Nature of Friendship THE BENEDICTION (solo song for tenor or soprano) THE DREAM GALLERY (piano/vocal reductions) Helen (for soprano) Todd (for baritone) Naomi (for mezzo soprano) Carol (for mezzo soprano) Lonnie (for bass) Luz (for alto) Adam (for tenor) |
COMPOSITIONS TO DATE
Two Excursions for Clarinet and Piano (2018) Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano (2017) – premiered at Chamber Music Northwest, July 2018 “Those Who Loved Medusa” (2017) – concert aria for soprano, piano and percussion (appears on the Delos CD “Time and Distance”) “The Invocation” (2017) – solo song for mezzo soprano and piano (appears on the Delos CD “Time and Distance”) “The Ocean of Forgiveness: Five Poems of Joanne Regenhardt” (2016) – cycle for mezzo/or soprano and piano (appears on the Delos CD “Time and Distance”) “In the Rear View Mirror, Now” (2016) – cycle for soprano, piano and organ (appears on the Delos CD “Time and Distance”) “Home Is a Harbor” (2014/2015) – chamber opera in three acts (appears on the Delos CD “Home Is a Harbor”) “The Palm Trees Are Restless: Five Poems of Kate Gale” (2014) -- cycle for soprano and piano (appears on the Delos CD “Home Is a Harbor”) “The Benediction” (2012) – solo song for tenor/or soprano and piano (recorded by Hila Plitmann on the Delos CD “Time and Distance” and by Kyle Bielfield on the Delos CD "Stopping By") “Rainbow Songs” (2011/2012) -- cycle for soprano and piano (appears on the Delos CD “Terrain of the Heart”) “The Dream Gallery: Seven California Portraits” (2009/2010) -- song cycle for seven soloists and chamber orchestra (appears on the Delos CD of the same name) “Gentle Spirit” (2008) -- tone poem for orchestra “The Dark-Eyed Chameleon” (2007) -- song cycle for soprano and piano (appears on the Delos CD “Terrain of the Heart”) “The True Believers” (2006) -- drama in three movements for soprano, baritone and orchestra “Mystic Brave Bird” (2005) -- elegy for mezzo soprano and orchestra “Five Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke” (2004) -- song cycle for soprano and piano (appears on the Delos CD “Terrain of the Heart”) “One Long Peace” (2003) -- elegy for soprano and orchestra “The Girl Made of Wood: Seven Poems of Pablo Neruda” (2001) -- song cycle for soprano and orchestra |