My Performances

Amy Nichols & Me: “So in Love”

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This is a real blast from the past for me-  it's the final encore of my senior voice recital at Luther College back in mid-November 1981.  (It doesn't seem possible that this was 34 years ago.)  After music of Benedetto Marcello,  Johannes Brahms,  Georges Bizet, Maurice Ravel and Ralph Vaughan Williams, I surprised the audience

Boatman Dance (Aaron Copland)

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Recently, I came across the recording of the joint faculty voice recital that I did with my colleague and friend Amy Haines.   The year was 2004.  She sang Ned Rorem (definitely doing the heavy lifting of the evening)  while I did all ten of the Old American Songs of Aaron Copland.  This is the

When the Boys Come Home

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On this Veterans Day,  I wanted to post this recording of me singing an amazing song titled "When the Boys Come Home."  I included this on my 2014 faculty voice recital,  which commemorated the 200th anniversary of the day that Francis Scott Key penned "The Star Spangled Banner."  The program consisted of various patriotic songs,