Year: 2023

Duration (in minutes): 10

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: piano trio (vln, vc, pno), solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: baritone voice, cello, piano, violin

Publisher: debmason1@aol.com

Score PDF: Scenario-for-Baritone-and-Mosquito-Score.pdf

Description: Two poems by D.H. Lawrence, only one interrupts the other. The poet undoubtedly entertained his listeners with reading the elaborate, poetic insults and expletives in "The Mosquito", who is played by the violin. The Scenario is a Baritone performing an Art Song ("Aware"), interrupted by, well ... see the scrolling score online!

Year: 2021

Duration (in minutes): 12

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: baritone voice, piano, soprano

Publisher: debmason1@aol.com

Score PDF: Ars-Poetica.pdf

Description: I noticed the famous poem "The Idea of Order at Key West' by Wallace Stevens years ago, and during the pandemic
I went back to it as an expression of the need of the artist to create and the way
that the Arts impact the listeners in new ways that they can now use as invisible guidelines
like latitude and longitude lines to structure their own way forward in life.
However, there are no words in that poem for the singer who so inspires the Poet, and
so after a great search for a poem in a different language so the two poems could be
experienced simultaneously but on different planes, I discovered the poem "Pacaypalla" by Pablo
Neruda which is corresponding on so many levels I could hardly believe it. Both
poets are Pulitzer Prize winners, and both poems are narrated on the shore, speak
of the effect of the Arts on us all, with singing as the metaphor, and refer to the Artist
as creating a new way forward to experience life on a higher plane.
- Deborah Mason November, 2021

Year: 2016

Duration (in minutes): 90

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: opera

Publisher: Deborah Mason

Publisher website: debmason1@aol.com

Description: Semi-staged Opera-Cantata for SSAATTBB and standard orchestra. As part of New York City Opera's New Opera Readings, it garnered notice from the New York Times. Its conductor, Robert Bass of the Collegiate Chorale commissioned a choral piece directly afterwards, and the opera was produced by a joint production at Roulette, funded by private grants and donations. A shorter version is in progress, with chamber orchestra.

Year: 2014

Duration (in minutes): 12

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo string with piano

Instruments: contrabass, piano

Publisher: debmason1@aol.com

Score PDF: Ginastera-2014.pdf

Description: Written for my husband, Stephen Sas, Doublebassist after hearing him play the haunting and beautiful theme by Ginastera in "Variacciones Concertantes".