Published articles in educational journals on a variety of educational topics in Independent School, NAIS School Forum, Music Educators
Journal, Art Education, Design, The Small School Forum, Pan Pipes and Lutheran Education.
Music Educators Journal, May 1994, “Educating Young Listeners”
The Best of Music Educators Journal: Creativity in the Music Classroom, 1991, chapter entitled, “Encouraging the Musical Imagination through Composition”
Independent School, Spring 1990, “A Graduate Degree for Administrators?
Music Educators Journal, October 1988, “Small Ensembles, Big Benefits”
Lutheran Education, September/October 1988, “Reopening the Door to Creative Teaching”
Lutheran Education, September/ 1987, “Reflecting on Religious Education: Essay After a Year in Western Scotland”
Music Educators Journal, January 1987, “Encouraging the Musical Imagination through Composition”
Lutheran Education, November/December 1986, “Dreams and Dreaming: Resources for Creative Writing”
NAIS Academic Forum, 1986, “How Am I Doing?”
Art Education, November 1985, “Creative Writing as Dialectical Interplay: Multiple Viewings of a Painting”
Lutheran Education, May/June 1985, “Fine Arts are Basic in Education”
Design, July/August 1984, “Malone Dies and Other Deaths: Creative Writing at the Upper School Level”
Music Educators Journal, 1984, “Words and Music: Charting a Course for Excellence”
Lutheran Education, January/February 1984, “Against the Commission’s Report”
Music Educators Journal, February 1983, “Mozart, love, and the eighth grade”
Music Educators Journal, March 1982, “Aesop Operas”
Independent School, October 1981, “Dido then, Aesop now”
The Small School Forum, Winter 1980, “An Argument for More Classical Music in the Rural School”
The Small School Forum, Spring 1980, “Transformations: A Process of Creative Writing”
Lutheran Education, May/June 1974, “Hearing the Soft Words (essay on creative writing)”
Written about 100 musical compositions for church, school, amateur and professional organizations, including:
“Postcard” for orchestra
performed by the Northwest Symphony, Illinois
“Variations” for woodwind quintet by the Tranquil Winds, Los Angeles, California
“Contrasts,
Fragments and Echoes (1)”: a piano trio performed by members of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble
“Contrasts, Fragments and Echoes
(2)”: a string quartet performed by Toledo String Quartet, Columbus Symphony String Quartet, Ethos String Quartet
“Resonance” for piano
and orchestra performed by Oak Park-River Forest High School Orchestra
“Circles” for orchestra performed by Oak Park-River Forest Symphony
Orchestra and Oak-Park River Forest High School Symphony Orchestra
“A Trumpet None Can Silence,” for Concordia University Wind Symphony,
Illinois
“Sudden and Quiet” for piano performed at Musica Nova Concert, University of Toledo
“Praise to the Lord!” a chorale concertato
commissioned to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Grace Lutheran School, River Forest, Illinois
“...a blue true dream of sky” performed
by the Mississippi University for Women College Choir, Columbus, Mississippi; Lenoir-Rhyne Youth Choir, Hickory, North Carolina;
Shenango Area Youth Chorus, Hermitage, Pennsylvania and Oak Park-River Forest Children’s Chorus, Illinois
“Nonet,” for strings performed
at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York
“A Joyful Noise!,” a commissioned work to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Salem
Lutheran Church, Glendale, California
“...with fervor and zeal” an orchestral piece performed at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester,
New York
“Silence” for soprano, baritone and piano based on poetry by the composer performed at a family recital, Salem Lutheran Church,
Glendale, California
“Cello Sonata” for cello and piano performed at a family recital, Salem Lutheran Church, Glendale, California
“Elegy:
Psalm 46” a motet commissioned for the 100th anniversary of Grace Lutheran Church, River Forest, Illinois
“Hush” (The Christmas Story)
for unison chorus, flute and string quartet performed at Salem Lutheran Church, Glendale, California
“Lyric” for oboe and string orchestra
performed at Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York
“Rondo” for French horn and string orchestra performed at Eastman School
of Music, Rochester, New York
“Agnus Dei” for mixed chorus performed at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
“Angels Sing
Rejoicing” performed by the Chamber Choir of Lutheran High School of Orange County
“Stranger” for mixed chorus and violin performed
on tour by the Lenoir-Rhyne College Choir
“Psalm 8” commissioned by St. Martin’s Lutheran Church, Annapolis, Maryland
“Playing 2” for
oboe and clarinet, “Psalm 32”, “Trio” for oboe, bassoon and piano, all performed at Rice University, Houston, Texas
“Requiem” for soprano
and strings based on new 9/11 poems, premiered September 11, 2005 at St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland
