In the End, The Soprano Always Wins is an opera for soprano with video playback and a non-singing dramatic role. The story is a game show for musicians who have to repeat a pattern of notes that is played for them. The idea originated in a conversation with Monica Harte (for whom this opera was composed) when she said that she always wanted to have a piece written based on the old electronic Simon game. She thought that the patterns could get faster and faster until craziness ensued.

Composed for Bruce Curlette’s Fifteen Minutes of Fame

Tangled is an attempt to present two separate melodic lines simultaneously, in a tango style.

Composed for Jenny Greene’s Fifteen Minutes of Fame

This text is from Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy in Act I, scene 5 of Macbeth, in which she is preparing to help here husband murder Duncan, the king.

Composed for Zentripedal’s Fifteen Minutes of Fame

Infused with spicy rhythms and the finest harmonic sophistication, this caffeinated composition packs quite a kick.

The inspiration for these miniature pieces came from Twitter and its 140 character format. Each movement is composed using text from tweets posted on Sunday, August 15, 2010, that included the word “goodmorning”. These songs are simple and to-the-point, almost incomplete in their brevity, very much in the spirit of Twitter.