My Music
a list of my compositions

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A Song of Grieving	Music Video	September 2023
Nature is Unequaled	Music Video - Female voices	September 2023
Hymn to the Earth	Music Video - Male and Female voices	September 2023
Lament -Feb. 6, 2023	Music Video	September 2023
A Butterfly Interlude	Music Video -viola and harp	Septamber 2023
The Elements come out to dance	Music Video	September 2023
To Say Goodbye	Music Video	August 2023
Only Now	Music Video	August 2023
FFRF Song	Song about the Freedom from Religion Foundation	Decenber 2022
Forgetting	Music Video	November 2022
TAO Songs	10 songs from the Tao te Ching for voice, viola, and piano	July 2022
Antiphon for speaker and instrumental ensemble	flute, clarinet, bassoon,  French horn, violin, cello	March 2022
Springtime Along the Olentangy Music Video	Instrumental	May 2021
Music Videos created from music previously written: If You Came my mother died Geese on the Olentangy Shine, Shine, Shine There is Nothing in the World Come, Lovely and Soothing Death Pavane for the Nursery Goodnight, Sweet Prince Quelle Est Cette Odeur Agreable? Noel Nouvelet What we call the beginning	First UU Choir of Columbus piano solo harp and english horn First UU Choir of Columbus Les Kleen First UU Choir of Columbus First UU Choir of Columbus First UU Choir of Columbus First UU Choir of Columbus First UU Choir of Columbus First UU Choir of Columbus	Feb - April 2021
Music Videos created from Songs from the Chinese: (2013) Bamboo Grove House Joy of fields Free Flowing Water Magnolia Blossoms My Cottage on the Harbor Side Sages Spring Rain Separation Southern Hill	Guitar and singer: Doris Oursler Les Kleen Leslie Armstrong Leslie Armstrong Les Kleen Edgel Alley Doris Oursler Edgel Alley Doris Oursler	April - July 2021
Music Videos (Online Interludes) Autumn Candles How it begins Mountains Rumi Streams Suddenly The Sea Waterfalls	Ensemble Vibraphone Electronic Music Brass and Strings String Quartet String Trio Electronic Music Piano Woodwinds	Nov. 2020-Jan. 2021
Song at Sunset (Walt Whitman) (second prize for SMP composition 2020)	SATB chorus, soprano and tenor solos, with Brass Quintet	July 2020
I Think I Could Turn and Live With Animals (Walt Whitman)	SATB and Piano	Feb. 2020
Love is the Magician (Robert G. Ingersoll)	Solo and Piano (2 versions, for high and low voices)	Jan. 2020
Our Circle of Compassion (Albert Einstein)	SATB and Piano	2019
Charles Darwin: To Love the Earth (Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin)     What are you doing?     What a great opportunity     But this will be a special expedition     We saw the sun rise     The elegance of the grasses     The day was powerfully hot     I heard the most pitiable moans     I receive packages from Darwin     What strand pleasure     I began to understand     It was as if in the night     And from the summit     A moonlit night     There were fossils, rocks and bones     I am beginning to be very fond     If I did not get married     It is most curious     I knew how much I liked him     Little by little     I canot say how happy     A multitude of beings     The long-continued accumulation     I don't know if I can stand it     Letters     Annie     This strikes me     Pain     But the presence of suffering     The power of our love     With all these exalted powers     Even the trees     If you could see     The power of our love	A Concert Musical for solos, chorus, and orchestra	2019
The Stream of Life (Rabrindanath Tagore)	TTBB and Piano	2018
Four Lucretius Songs from The Nature of Things  (Trans. by A. E. Stallings)     As You Commence     It is vital in what order     Sun and moon and sea     Time changes the nature of the whole  world	SATB and Piano	2018
Five Songs from the Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam I am what I am Wake Up My Darling I Shall Stop Trying to Please Everyone My Rule of Life This is the Season	Solo Voice and Piano (2 versions - for high and low voices)	2018
In the Scenery of Spring (Zen Poem)	SATB and Piano	2017
Songs from the Chinese  English settings by Kenneth Patton	Arranged for Piano Accompaniment	2016
Walden (Henry Thoreau)     Orchestral Introduction     I wanted to live deep     I was seated by the shore     This is a delicious evening     It is no dream of mine     The gift of life     Love your life     I grew in those seasons     A single gentle rain     This first Spring morning     We can never have enough of nature     In the midst of a gentle rain     Let us first     There is nothing     If a man does not keep pace     If you greet the day and night     Live in the present	Cantata for Solos, Chorus, Reader, and  Orchestra	2015
How Beautiful (Mark Belletini and Rabrindath Tagore)	SATB Choir and Piano	2015
Thomas Paine (Phyllis McGinley)	4 Solo Voices with Piano	2014
Chamber Music 9 Love Poems by James Joyce     Strings in the earth and air     The twilight turns     At that hour     When the shy star     Lean out of the window     My love is in a light atire     Bright cap and streamers     In the dark pine-wood     O Cool is the valley now	SATB a cappella	2013
Songs from the Chinese Poems from the Tang Dynasty English settings by Kenneth Patton     On hearing Chun play his lute     Spring Rain     The Pines     Joy of fields and gardens     The rapids by the Luans     Magnolia bank     Three poems     Bamboo grove house     Sages     From a maid to her far away lover     Free flowing water     A poem on wine     Waiting for my fried Ting     Southern hill     My Chung-Nan retreat     Separation     Dogwood bank     A Night with a friend	Solo voice and Guitar	2013
The Starry Messenger Text by George Keithley Orchestral Introduction     They Cherish Ancient Ways     The Mind's Eye Opens     Everything Begins with Desire     When Mother Dances     Venice: the morning market     Nature Asks Us     The Closed Globe of Thought Explodes     Adriatic Evening Carnivale     Stellar Dominions     Must I be blind?     Black Death visits Venice     Six Fragments     The Moon is Late     The Cellar Chamber     He Kneels     Hope Alone Heals     Though the Age Died	Music Drama for Solos, Chorus, Dancers and Orchestra performed April 19, 2013	2012
May Happiness Pursue You for Kittie and Steve (A.R. Ammons)	Solo and piano	2012
my mother died	Piano Solo	2011
Pakicetus (Phil Boiarsky)	Dancers, Speaker, Small Choir and Chamber Orchestra	2010
The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)	SATB and Piano	2009
The Waters of All the Streams (Theodore Roethke)	SATB a cappella	2009
Be As Water Is (Noel McGinnis)	SATB and Piano	2009
Antiphon for Planet Earth	Piano Solo	2009
Recipe for a Marriage (Phyllis McGinley)	Les and Linda recording	2008
Wake Up! (Les Kleen)	SATB, piano	2008
Sitting Quietly (Zen saying)	SATB, piano, alto flute	2008
Intricate and Untraceable	Piano Solo	2008
Frankie's Sputino	Les and Linda recording	2007
Being Here (Rainer Maria Rilke)	SATB, piano, flute, clarinet, cello	2005
Come, Lovely and Soothing Death (Walt Whitman)	SATB, piano, flute, clarinet, bassoon	2001
Make a Joyful Noise	SATB, organ, unison children's choir, bell choir, brass quartet	1999
You Are the Music (T.S. Eliot)     Words from Four Quartets by TS Eliot     Time present and time past     In my beginning is my end     Words move, Music moves     What was to be the value     Round and round the fire     So the darkness shall be the light     Ash on an old man's sleeve     To apprehend the point of intersection     So here I am     What we call the beginning     We shall not cease from exploration	Cantata for SATB, soloists and orchestra	1998
What We Meant To Say (Theodosia Garrison)	SATB a cappella TTBB a cappella	1997
Eight Short Poems (Cid Corman)     Pointing out each raindrop     The rain     No on is content     Follow the stream     Nothing more than this     For the first time     To embrace a tree     I want nothing of the river	SATB and piano	1996
We Begin Again (Robert Eller-Isaacs)	Speaker, piano, unison voices	1995
Startdust and Earthbeams (Judy Kleen/Walt Whitman)     There is a Power     Victorious Have We Been     Who is this Boy?     Why Am I So Troubled?     Michael, My Son     This is the Garden     He is/She is     I'll Get Blamed     Oh, My Child     It's a Wind-Up World     No Appreciation     Lonely Without You     Play!     Father of Heaven     Abraham, Abraham     Nay, Indeed Father     Ah, Sweet Child     What is This Attraction?     I Want to be One     This Love     Come, Lovely and Soothing Death     I'll Ge Blamed (reprise)     Look What Happens     Celebrate	Musical theater w/ orchestra	1993
Good Night, Sweet Prince (Rosemary Wells)	SATB a cappella solo and piano	1992
Pavane for the Nursery (William Jay Smith)	SATB a cappella	1992
Solstice ( Ellin Carter)	SATB, piano, flute, oboe, bassoon,percussion	1991
If You Came (Robert M. Doss)	SATB a cappella	1990
Shine! Shine! Shine! (Walt Whitman)	SATB and piano	1987
I Thank You God (ee cummings)	SATB, electonic tape	1985
The Snow is Falling (Ted Hughes)	soprano, harpsichord, cello	1983
Violin Designs	violin solo, electronic tape	1982
Lear Incidental Music	Electronic Tape	1982
Chromasone	Computer- electronic tape	1981
Fanfare for 25 years	brass quartet	1980
The Crucible Incidental Music	Electronic Tape	1980
Flute Flourish	Flute choir and film	1980
Concerto for Wind Ensemble	Wind Ensemble	1979
Starfall Incidental Music	Electronic Tape	1979
Two Computer Compositions: Rondo, Invention	Computer - electronic tape	1978
Amana Woolen Mill	Harp, oboe, flute, clarinet, bassoon, cello, horn	1978
Duet for two Saxophones and laser	Modulated laser, alto & tenor sax	1977
Seed, Song, Flower	8 trumpets	1977
As Tranquil Streams	SATB, brass quartet	1976
Christmas Quodlibet	SATB a cappella	1976
Quad Quad	16 trombones, percussion	1976
Dance	16mm Film, electronic tape	1975
Respondences	Electronics, Ohoe, Clarinet, Horn, Cello, Bass, passive piano	1974
Phonemion	SATB and Orchestra	1974 (PhD Dissertation)
Sevaw Enis	violin, clarinet, cello, flute	1972
Air (Clark Coolidge)	Voice, perc. flute,violin	1973
O Progress	Electronic Tape	1969
String Trio	Violin, Viola, Cello	1968 (M.A. Thesis)
Two Whitman Songs (Walt Whitman)     Out of the Rolling Ocean     O You	Soprano, piano, string quartet	1966-67
Psalm 130	SATB a cappella	1965
Liturgy	SATB and organ	1965
Santa Claus (ee cummings)	Opera	1965 (unpublished)
Woodwind Trio	Oboe, Flute, Clarinet	1964
Nunc Dimittis	SATB a cappella	1964
Eight Love Poems (ee cummings)     thy fingers make early flowers     you shall above all things     it may not always be so     love is more thicker     now all the fingers of this tree     if everything happens     being to timelessness     the great advantage of being alive	Voice, flute, and Harp	1963 (unpublished)
When God Decided to Invent  (ee cummings)	SATB a cappella	1962 (unpublished)
She Walks In Beauty (text - Lord Byron)	Voice and Piano	1961 (unpublished)