The mini-opera An Artist's Regrets tells the story of an aging woman artist tormented by regrets. With the help of a mystical chorus, she reconsiders her past choices, but doesn't see the light until the tables are turned on her.

An Artist's Regrets is a winner in the 2024 One Ounce Opera micro-opera competition, Fresh Squeezed Ounce of Opera. Performances of winning operas will be February 23-25 and March 1-3, 2024, in Austin, Texas.

The oratorio A Hundred Times More tells the dramatic story of the white Grimke sisters, Sarah and Angelina, and black abolitionist Sarah Mapps Douglass, who, together, worked for abolition and helped pave the way for the women's movement that led to the 19th amendment.

In the opening aria of the mini-opera, Shopping for Happiness, we meet Bobbie, a woman overwhelmed by the state of the world. Only shopping alleviates her frustration and depression, but she is broke. When a gift card magically appears, Bobbie goes to the Happiness Mall, where her gift card is good for one, but only one, transaction. Which vendor will she pick? Pennyman's Palace of Possessions? Harold's Magical Health and Beauty? Gloria's Glorious Romance? Or could it be that a shadowy, witch-like vendor, who does not sell to but actually takes from her customers, holds the key to Bobbie's happiness?

Glimpses was written early in the pandemic, spring of 2020. Each glimpse is one to two minutes long. "from the time of" indicates the composer's belief, not uncommen then, that covid was something that would become a thing of the past. Alas, not so. The pieces recall the weirdness of those early days, both the whacky and the tragic.

Text: five haiku by the 18th century Japanese woman poet, Chiyo-Ni. Chiyo-Ni's haiku reflect her love of nature and her sensibilities as a Buddhist.

Listen to Five Haiku by Chiyo-Ni (computer generated, no words, but gives a fair idea of the piece)

Setting: (lyric) soprano with piano accompaniment