These are songs composed using text from Emily Dickinson for mezzo-soprano and two clarinets.

A Little Thing

A Word Is Dead

3. Relay

2. Waves

1. Herald

This is a work commissioned by Justin Lepard as an opener for his concert in February 2015. It is an aggressive, motoric, and incessant piece.

Freight Train

This is a meditation on two cradle songs for cello and piano. The first lullaby is my own, the second is from Brahms.

Dayrdeam

Symphony in Three Marches is inspired by formal, harmonic, and rhythmic structures found in the marches of the music of Handel, Mozart, Elgar, Sousa, and Shostakovich.

3. Screamer

2. Hymn

1. Procession In Parody

Nels Drue Daily is a Lecturer at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln where he teaches Composition and Theory.

Nels Drue Daily

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