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to the new "official" home for information on composer and arranger Daniel Powers.

Vocal

Songs for voice and piano

Dust of Snow (1981)
text: Robert Frost

My Love Is In A Light Attire (1981)
text: James Joyce

The Night Will Never Stay (1981, revised 2005)
text: Eleanor Farjeon

Sometimes With One I Love (2002)
text: Walt Whitman

Spring and Fall (1999)
text: Gerard Manley Hopkins

O You Whom I Often and Silently Come (2000)
text: Walt Whitman
Winner, Ned Rorem Award for Song Composition (2003)

Young and Old (2003)
text: Charles Kingsley

Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night (2002)
text: Walt Whitman


Christmas Songs

The Angels’ Song (2003)
text: Sara Teasdale

The Christmas Silence (2005)
text: Margaret Deland

I Sing Of A Maiden (2004)
text: anonymous 15th century (adapted)

Rise, Hope of the Ages (2005)
text: John Greenleaf Whittier


Songs for voice and ensemble

The Rain Is Full Of Ghosts (2006)
Three songs on poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
for mezzo-soprano, viola, and piano
commissioned by the Indiana Music Teacher’s Association


Choral Works

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (2003)
SATB a cappella
text: Alfred Lord Tennyson

Spring (2000)
SA and piano
text: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Published by Santa Barbara Music Publishing

Thou Hast Made Me Endless (2001)
SATB a cappella
text: Rabindranath Tagore

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