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[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”You Might as Well Live”][vc_column_text]A Musical About Dorothy Parker[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”La Lupa (Scene from Act 1)”][vc_column_text]An opera based on the Giovanni Verga novella.
The scene was performed at the Ft. Worth Opera.
Anna Laurenzo, Mezzo-Soprano
Trevor Martin, Baritone
Christina Castro, Soprano[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”Songs of the Poet”][vc_column_text]A Song Cycle to Walt Whitman Poems[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”La Lupa (Scene from Act 2)”][vc_column_text]An opera based on the Giovanni Verga novella.
The scene was recorded at Opera America.
Trevor Martin, Baritone
Anna Laurenzo, Mezzo-Soprano
Mila Henry, Pianist[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”La Lupa, Two Arias”][vc_column_text]Two arias from Act 2 of the opera La Lupa.
Dascha Jensen, Soprano. Recorded at Opera America.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”Mathews Sings Mathews” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23a80d0d”][vc_column_text]All the songs in this album were composed, sung, and played by Norman Mathews. The first 9 songs are all from the one-person Dorothy Parker musical, You Might as Well Live. Several of these songs have never been recorded before.

The 10th and 11th tracks are from the revue, Somebody Write Me a Song, written with lyricist Patty Seyburn.

The 12th track is from the Walt Whitman song cycle, Songs of the Poet.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]

[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”Lost Empires”][vc_column_text]A Musical Based on the J.B. Priestley Novel.
Norman Mathews, Music; Patty Seyburn, Lyrics[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”Sonnet No. 61″][vc_column_text]A setting of Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 61 for chorus, piano, and oboe. A winner of the 2011 VocalEssence Award.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”Somebody Write Me a Song”][vc_column_text]A Musical Revue
Live at the Donnell Library, New York City
Norman Mathews, Music; Patty Seyburn, Lyrics[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”Rossetti Songs”][vc_column_text]5 Songs to Christina Rossetti Poems for Soprano,
Piano, Flute,  and Cello
Short Clips from a Navona Records CD.
Full tracks available on iTunes or Amazon (click here)[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”Ye Are Many—They Are Few
Cantata for a Just World”][vc_column_text]A cantata for 4 voices and piano.
Text by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Norman Mathews, and Others
Brian von Rueden, Baritone; Carla Janzen, Soprano; Nicholas Pulikowski Tenor; Kathryn Wills, Mezz-Soprano, James Morehead, Pianist
Performed Live at the Chicago Cultural Center[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”Anders’ Theme”][vc_column_text]Jazz Tune for Soprano Saxophone and Piano
Performed by Famed Soprano Saxophonist Anders Paulsson[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”Rossetti Songs: Voice/Piano Version”][vc_column_text]5 Songs to Christina Rossetti Poems
Sara Fanucchi, Mezzo-Soprano; Jessica Schroeider, Piano
Version for Voice and Piano
Performed Live at Source Song Festival[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”Flights of the Heart
A Chamber Opera”][vc_column_text]3-Character Chamber Opera
About French composer Cecile Chaminade, Camille Saint-Saens,
and a fictional character.
Libretto: Patty Seyburn
Performed by Shorter University Music Faculty
Part of a full-evening performance devoted to my music.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”String Quartet”][vc_column_text]A reading by members of ACM of Chicago
Access Contemporary Music[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
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