- Requiem (1977)
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Ruth Lomon
for flute, B-flat clarinet/bass clarinet, bassoon, trumpets in C, trombone/bass trombone, solo soprano, and SATB chorus
Songs from a Requiem are inserts in the setting of a Requiem Mass which Ruth Lomon composed in 1977 and dedicated to the memory of her sister. The Mass proper is set for chorus (SATB) accompanied by trumpets and trombones. The songs, settings of poems she wrote between 1970 and 1972, are orchestrated for soprano, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, and bassoon. The version for soprano with piano accompaniment was written in 1982.
The premiere of the entire Requiem took place in Boston, February 22, 1997, performed by Choro Allegro under the direction of David Hodgkins.
- Solstice (1978)
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Ruth Lomon
for brass quartet (two trumpets, trombone, bass trombone)
Composed to exorcise the magpies pecking the metal strips on the roof of my cottage at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos.
- Equinox (1978)
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Ruth Lomon
for brass quartet (two trumpets in C, trombone, bass trombone)
Commissioned by Francis J. Cooke, Director of Music, Lexington Unitarian Church to accompany the first performance of the Requiem choruses.