Missa Brevis Op.15 (1985) SATB Chorus, tenor and baritone solos, organ c. 15'00"

I. Kyrie
II. Gloria
III. Sanctus
IV. Benedictus
V. Agnus Dei

Commissioned by Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church, NYC

First complete performance on October 19th, 1996 at the Warwick Music Festival in Warwick, New York with the Warwick Festival Chorus conducted by Lyndon Woodside

Published by Theodore Presser Company

ABOUT

De Profundis Op.16, for solo organ, was commissioned by David Friddle, who gave the work its world premiere. The score was finished in October 1985.

The title De Profundis was in fact chosen well after the initial sketches for the piece had already been written, and therefore, although it is certainly appropriate is, in its specificity of association, somewhat arbitrarily applied. In settling upon this title I was as much thinking of Oscar Wilde's De Profundis as to the biblical reference which his use of it referred. Thus I am using the title not in any narrow programmatic sense, but rather an indication of the piece's general mood - that of a meditation of profoundly sorrowful nature.