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Compositions by Barbara Harbach
Contemporary Composers for Harpsichord, Vol. II
This second volume of HMP's Contemporary Harpsichord Series pairs two rhythmically vibrant works. Emma Lou Diemer is a well-known composer, especially admired for her keyboard works. Toccata is a perpetual motion of energy with splashes of glissandi and climactic...
Visions of Hildegard for Orchestra
Visions of Hildegard was inspired by Hildegard of Bingen of the Order of Saint Benedict. She lived from 1098-1179, and she was known as Saint Hildegard, Sibyl of the Rhine, as well as an abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, and visionary. Many consider her...
Soprano Voice with Instruments #1, Vol. 17
Vocalise Lament for Soprano and Cello Vocalise Lament was written for the 40th Anniversary of the Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, Missouri, and was premiered October 15, 2016. It features several sections with syllables of the singer’s choice guaranteed to...
Three Fragments
These are hauntingly beautiful pieces for solo oboe, appreciated by both the audience and the performer.
Transformation for String Quartet
Alice Guy’s 1912 silent film, Making an American Citizen is a groundbreaking examination of power—the egalitarian culture of a new country, the dominance of older, patriarchal values, and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit. Barbara Harbach’s newly composed...
Festive Pieces for Solo Organ
As an organist, I am always looking for festive pieces for a special celebration or for an exciting postlude. Festive Toccata is an exuberant setting with dueling manuals over a dramatic pedal part. A short pedal solo leads back into the opening gestures with a short...
Advent & Christmas for Solo Voice, Vol. I
Come Back, Oh Christ Come Back, Oh Christ is a poignant setting of Thomas Hubert’s mystical words, “Come back, oh Christ, come back a little child… Show us yourself once more this Christmastide.” Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence are...
Voices with Instruments #2, Vol. 18
A Love Supreme (Singers Edition) Cheryl Walker’s beautiful poem, A Love Supreme, provides the inspiration and text for this composition written for the St. Louis Women’s Chorale with the Equinox Chamber Players. Walker’s evocative words create several diverse...
Petite Rhapsody for Solo Flute
Petite Rhapsody bursts with flying scales, twittering grace notes, and alternates between exciting driving rhythms and improvisatory sections.
Look to Love – Opera
Synopsis: Young Marya has been raised on French novels and is, consequently, in love. When her parents refuse to let poor sub-lieutenant Vladimir court her, she and Vladimir plan to elope. On the evening set for the elopement, a fierce blizzard moves in. Marya and her...