David T. Little

Speak Softly was originally composed in 2003 for Jessica Fogel's site-specific dance triptych Red Trail to Open Field. The concert version was completed the following August in Aspen, Colorado. The ti...

This vocal score is released in honor of the 60th anniversary of the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 2023. Little and Vavrek's opera JFK premiered at Fort Worth Opera in...

Composer's note: Written in 2010 for violinists Todd Reynolds, And the sky was still there tells the story of an old friend, Amber Ferenz, and the epiphany that led her to embrace her true self, confr...

Composer's note:Each of the Three Sams explores a different challenge.In (- - - )-I-Am, a perpetual motion figure in the vibraphone is redistributed among the other instruments of the set-up. Melodic...

Composer's note: Raw Power was inspired by the proto-punk music of Iggy (Pop) and the Stooges, epitomised by his 1973 record of the same name. The work explores the heaviness, clangor and joyous honk...

Composer's note:The use of descansos is a tradition that comes from Spanish culture. Traditionally, descansos were used to mark the place where weary pallbearers would set a coffin down in a funeral p...

Based on a short story by Judy Budnitz, Dog Days is a contemporary opera that investigates the psychology of a working class American family against a not-so-distant-future wartime scenario. It asks:...