note: This is simply a list of my works. Many of the scores and some sound samples of pieces on this list can be found in the Scores and Audio Samples section of this site. If you are interested in something that isn’t on one of those pages, contact me for scores or more information: beckydale917 at gmail dot com, or 651-216-0060.
Music Theater
Our House: The Capitol Play Project songs and music for Wonderlust Productions 2018 site-specific community-engaged show at the Minnesota State Capitol.
California The Tempest songs and music for Cornerstone Theater Company 2014-2015 production touring 9 California towns and cities.
Once Upon a River theatrical score for West Side Theater Project production, St. Paul, MN, 2012.
Song snippets for And I and Silence, reading as part of Eclipse Theater’s season of works by playwright Naomi Wallace, August 2011, Chicago, IL.
Cantata for Belarus theatrical scene score for Nautilus Music Theater Rough Cuts, January 2011, St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN.
The Phantom of the Kitchen theatrical score including “Fire and Desire,” “Muse of the Night,” “Promise,” “I want your Blood,” “Martha’s/Gloria’s Kitchen,” “Haunting Spirits of the West Side,” and “Come to My Table,” West Side Theater Project Production
2010, St. Paul, MN.
The West Side on the South Side, theatrical score including “The West Side of the River,” “Mai’s Song,” “Bridges” and “Lui’s Song” September 2009, West Side Theater
Project production, St. Paul, MN.
Fruit of the Family Tree one of four scenes commissioned by Nautilus Music-Thater for Jennifer Baldwin Peden and Christina Baldwin, originally composed in 2000,
revised in 2009 for fully staged performance of SisterStories, Minneapolis, 2009.
“All is Well” composed for Playwrights Center reading (2007) and Geva Theater production of The House at Hydesville, Rochester, NY, 2009.
Attraction composed and co-composed songs with cast of Cornerstone Theater Company 2008 production, Los Angeles, CA.
The Playwright’s Center and Playwright Elizabeth Wong, composed 10 songs for a workshop and reading of Wong’s The Happy Prince, Minneapolis, MN, 2007.
Slaughter City theatrical score, performed Macalester College, 1998.
Caucasian Chalk Circle theatrical score (used some of score from Ten Thousand Things production below, but mostly new music for this production), performed Macalester College, 1998.
Wilderness Edge, Parading, and Rachel’s Lullaby Youth singers, Piano, Fife, Drum, Violin; August 1997, commissioned by SteppingStone Theater for their
production of Historic Fort Snelling: Wilderness End, premiered October 1997.
Caucasian Chalk Circle theatrical score including “Once Upon a Time,” “Woman, Help Me,” “If No One Else will Take You,” “Deep is the Chasm,” “Why so Happy/Sad,” “Grusha and Simon,” “If She Walked in Golden Shoes,” “Azdak’s Dance” Ten Thousand Things Theater company 1996 production, Twin Cities, MN.
A Bad Day for baritone and piano; Pink Peonies for baritone, soprano and piano; A Vision in a Fire for tenor and piano; Circle for alto and piano; and, Ghost Lover for tenor with SSAB quartet; composed as part of the Nautilus Music-Theater’s Composer-Librettist Studio, June 1995.
Common Ground (includes “Common Ground,” “Plowing and Planting,” “A Loan,” “These Hands,” and “Harvest Dance”), a play with music, written 1987-1988, performed spring 1988 at Macalester College; revised1991.
Vocal Solos
Satisfied and Sated a capella voice, April 2011, premiered, Minneapolis, MN.
Serve and Return voice and guitar, January 2009, premiered in St. Cloud, MN.
Connected by Nature three songs for mezzo soprano and piano, November 2005 premiered Decorah, IA.
It’ll All Be OK for solo voice and piano, November 2005.
Sing us the Oyster Song, Grandma, voice and guitar, premiered February 2005, Brooklyn, Iowa.
Camp Wesley Woods Schar Song, voice and guitar, premiered January 2001,
Indianola, Iowa.
Chalk Circle Songs, voice, violin, percussion, premiered 1998, St. Paul, MN.
“Soup” and “Blood in the Snow,” solo voice, string or electric bass, piano, August,
1999, for a play-in-progress commissioned of playwright Erik Ehn by Ten Thousand Things Theater. Songs premiered December 1999, St. Paul, MN.
“Squirrels” and “Baby Dance,” mezzo soprano and cello, January, 1999, Early movements from a song cycle to be titled The Gamut, premiered March 1999, Landmark Center, St. Paul, MN.
Comes the Spring, for soprano and string quartet, Spring 1994.
Summer Wind for soprano, baritone, and piano, May 1994, premiere October 1994, Roslyn, NY.
Ice Comes Out, Sing me a Song, and Ah Oh Woe, three folk style songs for 1-3 voices, guitar, and percussion, April 1994. Ice Comes Out premiered March 1996, Decorah, IA.
Art Songs, song-cycle for soprano and piano, premiere June 1993, St. Paul, MN.
Public Domain, song cycle for baritone and piano, premiere June 1993, St. Paul, MN.
Instrumental solos and chamber ensembles
Sniugnip: Penguin Portrait, for Suzuki cello choir, commissioned and premiered by the St. Joseph’s School of Music Cello students of Theresa Richardson, St. Paul, MN, 2010.
Jolly Jumping Meteor Notes In Spring, for Suzuki violin choir, commissioned, titled and premiered by the St. Paul Conservatory of Music violin students of Mia Haggerty, St. Paul, MN 2006.
Dove Hill Ball
for pipe organ, May 2005, Premiered July, 2005.
Saxaccord, for saxophone quartet and accordion, November 2004.
Study #1 for One Cello Four Hands (Jubilee Wedding), May 1998, premiered July, 98, Comer, GA.
Joene and Bill’s Backyard Wedding March, solo piano, June, 98, premiered June, 98, IA.
Easter Fanfare, SATB Choir and organ, February 1997, premiered March 1997, Edina, MN.
Two Pieces for Solo Piano, May 1996, premiered March 1999, St. Paul, MN.
Fair Fowl, duet for flute and oboe in three movements, Jan. 1996; premier Concord, MA, March 1996.
Laserlight for string quartet, March 1995, premiere April 1995, St. Paul, MN.
The Gifts You Gave Me for solo tape, September, 1994, premiere October 1994, Fort Dodge, IA.
The Moth, for solo oboe, premiere June 1993, St. Paul, MN.
After A Dance, for solo harp, 1993, premiere November 1994, New York, NY.
Three Studies for String Quartet, in D dorian and phrygian, written 1992.
And Ain’t I a Woman, dramatic speech with instrumental chamber ensemble, 1991; premiere University of Virginia, December 1995.
Choral works
Tied Together, vocal round, any number of voices, February 2010, premiered St. Cloud, MN.
It’s All Here, Now for mass SATB choir, piano and percussion, January 2006, premiered February 2006, Byron, MN.
Watch, Listen, Wait for SATB choir and piano, October 2005, premiered December 2005, Decorah, IA.
Rape of the World (arr. of Tracey Chapman song), women’s chorus, premiered 1998,
Minneapolis, MN
Calliope, for women’s chorus, premiered 1997, Minneapolis, MN.
As Sparks From Fire SATB Choir and Bell Choir, September 1997, premiered January 1998 Chapel Hills UCC, Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, and Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church choirs, Edina and Minneapolis, MN.
Psalm 145 Senior Choir, Children’s Choir, Brass Quartet, Flute Quartet, two celli, and organ; August 1997, commissioned for Good Shepherd Lutheran Church’s 75th Anniversary Celebration, premiered October 1997.
Thou, Organ and SATB Choir, April 1997, commissioned for Chapel Hills UCC organ dedication, premiered by Chapel Hills Senior Choir and Organ, May 1997.
Wisdom, SATB Choir, piano, oboe, March 1997, premiered Our Lady of Peace Catholic
Church, Minneapolis, May 1997.
Calliope, SSAA Chorus, February 1997, commissioned and premiered by Calliope Women’s Chorus, May 1997, Minneapolis, MN.
Emmaus, SATB Choir with organ, February 1997, premiered March and April 1997, Chapel Hills UCC, Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, and Our Lady of Peace Catholic
Church choirs, Edina and Minneapolis, MN.
We Praise You, God, for Water, SATB choir with piano, December 1996, premiered January 1997, Three above-mentioned churches, January and February 1997, Edina and Minneapolis, MN.
Upper Iowa River, March ’94 for SSA sextet or chorus and bodhran, 1995, premiered March 1996 by Home Remedy, Decorah, IA.
A Rhyme, A Story, and a Lullaby for SATB Choir, Reader, bar chimes and piano, Feb. 1995, commis-sioned by One Voice Mixed Chorus, premiered May, 1995, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
Life, Death and Advertising, a set of song-poems, written 1990, premiere May 1991 by Macalester Concert Choir, demo tape produced with a grant from the Minnesota Composers Forum.
Crowded Train, folk song for guitar and two voices, Aug. 1989, premiered Jan. 1990, Macalester College.
Rancher’s Song, and Marshmallow Song, children’s camp songs, 1985 and 1987, sung at camps in central Iowa, 1985-present.
Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra
Winter River, Still and Moving, for 2 ob, 2 cl, 2 bsn, cbsn, 3 hn, vcl, and cb, December 1999, premiered February 27, 2000, Music St. Croix, Stillwater, MN.
How Can I Keep from Singing? for orchestra, written fall 1993, reading
premiere May, 1995.
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