Ricky Ian Gordon

The poetry of Marie Howe has a special place in Ricky Ian Gordon's heart and mind, both haunting and soothing. Without Music is a five-movement work in which Howe's words and Gordon's music together g...

What's in a name? While the title is French for 'Eight Flower Songs,' the texts are all in English. The poems' flowers metaphorically evoke fragrance, love and loss, life and death, rebirth and regrow...

Composed for Soprano and Baritone with an instrumental sextet, Ellen West brings the audience into the lives of psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger and his patient, Ellen West, who throughout her life fill...

Ursprünglich ein preisgekröntes Theaterstück, wurde Lynn Nottages INTIMATE APPAREL durch das Leben ihrer Urgroßmutter im New York des frühen 20. Die Pulitzer-Preisträgerin schuf auch das Libretto für...

Basierend auf dem Roman von Bassani aus dem Jahr 1962 dramatisiert DER GARTEN DER FINZI-CONTINIS die wahre Geschichte einer wohlhabenden jüdischen Familie, die durch den staatlich verordneten Antisemi...

A heartfelt memorial to the composer's sister, SAMBA FOR SUSAN bears a tempo marking of Sensual, and this 5-minute elegy is set as a slow bossa nova, full of the jazz flavor and syncopations of samba...

This beautiful slow movement takes full advantage of the string quartet’s richly expressive potential. LORRAINE is a plaintive aria for violin with string trio accompaniment, balanced with contrasting...