Ricky Ian Gordon

The poetry of Marie Howe has a special place in Ricky Ian Gordon's heart and mind, both haunting and soothing. Without Music is a five-movement work in which Howe's words and Gordon's music together g...

What's in a name? While the title is French for 'Eight Flower Songs,' the texts are all in English. The poems' flowers metaphorically evoke fragrance, love and loss, life and death, rebirth and regrow...

Composed for Soprano and Baritone with an instrumental sextet, Ellen West brings the audience into the lives of psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger and his patient, Ellen West, who throughout her life fill...

Originally an award-winning play, Lynn Nottage’s INTIMATE APPAREL was inspired by her great-grandmother’s life in New York in the early 20th century. The Pulitzer-laureate also created the libretto fo...

Based on Bassani’s 1962 novel, THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS dramatizes the true story of a prosperous Jewish family’s disruptions and consequences from state-mandated antisemitism in Italy during...

A heartfelt memorial to the composer's sister, SAMBA FOR SUSAN bears a tempo marking of Sensual, and this 5-minute elegy is set as a slow bossa nova, full of the jazz flavor and syncopations of samba...

This beautiful slow movement takes full advantage of the string quartet’s richly expressive potential. LORRAINE is a plaintive aria for violin with string trio accompaniment, balanced with contrasting...