Vocal Music by Frank Felice

Composed for the wedding of Angela Peterson and Scott Winter, it's poetry is by the colonial poet, Anne Bradstreet, her poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband."  This music is very loving, impassioned, and worked well for her wedding.  It is available in two other versions: one for organ, and another for chamber wind ensemble.

If Ever Two Were One (soprano and string quartet version)

My friend Derrick Pennix shared a long bus ride with a young girl and her father, and over the course of that ride became fast friends - over the course of many years they wrote a number of letters, and later Derrick commissioned me to write a song cycle based on those letters.  Tammy Randa was a Chicago sports team supporter, wrote very vividly about the very family 'accidents" and wrote to Derrick about what of her initial crushes.  The music is often very Charles Ives-like.

Accidentals

No...

Sporting Life

Last Lines

One of the movements from my soprano and orchestral song cycle "The Pre-Sleep Mental Dances," to a number of poems by Tara Ericksen Smith - the whole cycle seems to spin from one surreal dream to another --  in this one the vocalist is not quite asleep, but somewhere in her brain, a nagging thought is trying to awaken her -  this recording is from the piano reduction version.

Frustrated Distance from "The Pre-Sleep Mental Dances"

I am an eclectic composer who writes with a postmodern mischievousness: my pieces can be comedic/ironic, simple/complex, or humble/reverent. My recent projects have taken a turn toward turn towards the sweeter side, exploring a consonant adiatonicism.

If Ever Two Were One (soprano and string quartet version)

FRANK FELICE, composer