COMPOSITIONS

Opera

2000
  • Too Many Sopranos
     A Comic Opera in Two Acts
    ECS Publishing, commissioned by the Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre

2001
  • Polly Patchwork:  A Children’s Opera

2025
  • Too Many Sopranos
    ECS Publishing, Reduced Orchestration

Instrumental

1982
  • Four Christmas Hymns
    Arranged for Brass and Organ
    1. O Come All Ye Faithful
    2. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
    3. Angels We Have Heard on High
    4. Joy to the World
1990
  • Shenandoah Quintet
    for Woodwind Quintet
    Commissioned by The Missouri Arts Quintet
1996
  • Prelude on ‘Ride On, Ride On in Majesty’
    for Organ
1997
  • Prelude on ‘Come Thou Long Expected Jesus’
    for Organ
1984
  • Greensleeves
    arr. for Trumpet and Organ
2005
  • All Glory Laud and Honor
    for Organ (revised 2014)
  • Go To Dark Gethsemene
    for Organ (revised 2014)
  • Toccata on ‘Christ the Lord is Risen Again’
    for Organ
2007
  • Overture Too Many Sopranos                                                                      
2008
  • Christ the Lord is Risen Today
    Hymn Arrangement for Organ and 4 Pt. Brass
2011
  • Toccata on ‘Lasst uns erfreuen’
    for Organ
  • There is a Balm in Gilead
    for Organ
  • Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
    for Organ
2012
  • Crown Him With Many Crowns
    for Organ
  • A Prayer
    for Organ
  • Nobody Knows But Jesus
    for Organ
2013
  • Break Thou the Bread of Life
  • Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
2014
  • Fanfare
    for Organ
  • Jesus, Grant Me This, I Pray (Gibbons:  Song 13)
    for Organ
  • In the Cross of Christ I Glory
    for Organ
  • O Sacred Head Now Wounded
    for Organ
2016
  • Variations for Piano                                                                            
  • Prelude
    for Cello and Piano
2018
  • Phantasy for Piano and Orchestra (listen)
2024
  • Toccata on Prelude in C, WTC Vol. I by J.S.Bach
    2 versions: Piano or 2 Marimbas
  •  Christmas Carols: For Church or Home
    for Piano
    • Silent Night
    • Lo, How A Rose E’re Blooming
    • Angels We Have Heard on High
    • The First Noel
    • In the Bleak Midwinter
    • Jesu Sweet, O Jesu Mild
    • Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
    • What Child is This
    • Joy to the World
    • Good King Wenceslaus
  • Anniversary Song
    for Piano
  • A Carol
    for Piano
2025
  • Overture Too Many Sopranos   
  • Three Pieces in C
    for Piano
    • Tribute
    • Anniversary Song
    • Toccata

choral

1967
  • The Passion According to St. Mark
    1st Version for Small Mixed Chorus, and Small Orchestra
1970
  • A Christmas Service
    for Narrator, Soloists, Mixed Choir, Children’s Choir, Flute, Trumpet, Celeste, and Organ
1975
  • Hosanna to the Son of David
    Carl Fischer, publisher
1976
  • Christ the Lord is Risen
    Abingdon, publisher
1978
  • The Passion According to St Mark
    2nd Version revised for Small Mixed Chorus and Small Orchestra
1979
1981
  • Psalm 150
    Hinshaw Music, original publisher
1982
 1984
1985
1986
  • The Lord Bless You
    for Mixed Chorus, Soprano Solo, String Quartet and Organ
    Commissioned by The First Presbyterian Church, Iowa City, Iowa
1987
  • Bethlehem Carol
1988
  • Psalm Concert
    for Large Mixed Chorus, Small Mixed Chorus, and Symphonic Wind Ensemble
    Commissioned by the Choirs of Missouri University
  • A Plea for Peace
1990
  • A Fantasy on Praise to the Lord ‘Lobe den Herren’
    for Mixed Chorus, Organ, Brass, and Timpani
    Commissioned by First Presbyterian Church, Iowa City, Iowa
1991
  • Have you Gone to Warmer Climes
  • Psalm 145 (listen)
    for Mixed Chorus, Soprano and Alto Solo, Organ, Strings, Brass, and Timpani
    Commissioned by First Presbyterian Church, Iowa City, Iowa
1992
  •  The Kerry Dance
    Commissioned by The University Singers Missouri University
1994
1995                                                 
  • Amazing Grace
    1st Version for High Voice   
1996
  • Introits and Amens
1998
  • One Starry Night in Bethlehem
    for Mixed Chorus, Flute, and Organ (revised 2014)
1999
  • The Christmas Story
    for Mixed Chorus, Organ, Brass, and Timpani
    Commissioned by The Indianapolis Chorus and The Lilly Foundation
2000
  • Who Should Give Thanks
2001                                                   
  • The Passion According to St. Mark
    3rd Version expanded and revised
    for Large Chorus, soloists, and Full Orchestra       
  • Silent Night
    arranged for Chorus, Strings, and Organ
2002
  • The Greatest of These is Love
    for Soprano, Chorus, and Organ                        
  • Agnus Dei
    for Soprano, Chorus, and Organ
2003
  • I Sing the Praise of Love Almighty
    for Chorus, Soloists, and Keyboard                                                   
  • O Clap Your Hands
    for Chorus, Drum, and Organ                                                            
  • Humbly I Adore Thee
    for Chorus and Organ                                                                        
2005
  • For God So Loved the World
    Chorus and Organ
2006
  • In Memoriam
    for SATB Soloists, Chorus, and Keyboard
2007
  • Psalm 92
    Chorus and Keyboard
  • An American Requiem
    For Soloists, Chorus, and Orchestra
    Commissioned by the University of Southern Mississippi
2011
  • Psalm 42
    for SATB and Keyboard
  • Remember
    for Chorus and Keyboard
  • I Choose
    for Solo Baritone and Bass, Cello and SATB Chorus
  • All Our Times
    for SATB and SAT solos
2014
  • For Five Departed Friends
    for Soloists, Chorus, and Orchestra
    original composition 2008
  • This Pendant World
    for Soloists, Chorus, and Orchestra  
    original composition 2008
  • Faith Hope Love
    for Soprano and Baritone soloists, Chorus, and Orchestra
2015
  • Unto Thee, O Lord, Do I Lift Up My Soul
    for Organ or Piano, and Chorus
2016
  • Five Lenten Meditations
    For SATB, Organ
    • The Gaunt and Solitary Man
    • Sitting in the Upper Room
    • Black Rocks
    • That Wood
    • The Rock Had Been Carved Out
2021
  • A Christmas Caroll
    for SATB, Keyboard
  • A Christmas Carol
    Hymn
  • A Christmas Carol (Second Version)
    for SATB, Keyboard
2023
  • St Mark Passion
    3rd Version revised for Four soloists, Large Chorus, Small Chorus, and Full Orchestra
  • A Requiem for Our Time
    2nd Version revised and retitled (original title: An American Requiem)
2024
  • A Carol for to Sing (listen)
    SATB, Keyboard
  • A Christmas Caroll; A Hymn
    for SATB, Keyboard

Songs

1961
  • To Helen (listen)
    T.I.S., publisher
1962
  • When Heaven Cries
    T.I.S., publisher
1963
  • My Girl, Thou Gazest Much
    T.I.S., publisher
1964
  • Even
    T.I.S., publisher
1965
  • She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep
  • Counting the Beats
  • I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
    T.I.S., publisher
1966
  • who knows if the moon is a balloon
    T.I.S., publisher
1967
  • Songs of Love
    For High Voice and Chamber Orchestra
    Poetry of Robert Graves
    T.I.S., publisher
    • Counting the Beats
    • She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep
    • Small Gnats That Fly in Hot July
    • Love Without Hope
    • The Rock Had Been Carved Out
1978
  • Come Walk in the Garden with Me
  • A Lute Will Lie (listen)
    T.I.S., publisher
1983
  • America I Love You
  • A Strange Lovers May Caress You
    T.I.S., publisher
1987
  • Folksong Setting:  Shenandoah
    revised 2002
    T.I.S., publisher
1990
  • Folksong Setting:  The Kerry Dance
1992
  • The Night
    T.I.S., publisher
1993
  • Wild Nights! (listen)
    T.I.S., publisher
1994
  • We have traveled many roads
1995-96
  • Haiku:  A Song Cycle
    For Mezzo Soprano
    • Summer Evening
    • The Way of Zen
    • Clouds
    • Coolness
    • Onitsura’s First Poem (Age 8)
    • Loneliness
    • Where the Cuckoo Flies
    • Spring
    • The Sudden Chillness
    • Maple Leaves
    • Bell Tones
    • The Mushroom
    • The Cuckoo
1998
  • The Ladies:  Four Songs
    For Baritone
    T.I.S., publisher
    1. My Phyllis
    2. Upon Julia’s Chothes
    3. To Helen
    4. Sally in Our Alley
2000
  • Have You Gone to Warmer Climes?    
  • Rather
    T.I.S., publisher
2001
  • Three Popular Songs
    For Soprano, Mezzo or Baritone
    T.I.S., publisher
    1. Country Music
    2. Oh This Day of Damply Falling Snow
    3. Vera Snigger
2002
  • Sonia Snell
2003
  • Vocalise
    T.I.S., publisher
2004
  • Of Woman and of Wife
    Song Cycle for Soprano
    Poetry by Emily Dickinson
    1. If you were coming in the fall
    2. My river runs to thee
    3. I’m wife; I’ve finished that
    4. She rose to his requirement
    5. Come slowly, Eden!
    6. I have no life but this
    7. Wild nights! Wild nights!
    8. In lands I never saw
    9. I held a jewel in my fingers
    10. To lose thee, sweeter than to gain
    11. Poor little heart!
    12. There is a word
    13. He fumbles at your spirit
    14. Heart, we will forget him!
2005
  • Songs of Stephen Foster
    Settings by Edwin Penhorwood
    1. Beautiful Dreamer
    2. Ring, Ring the Banjo
    3. Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
    4. Why, No One to Love
    5. The Camptown Races
2007
  • Bare Songs
    Poetry by Callum MacColl
    1. Small Favors
    2. Sonnet in ten lines
    3. Wave-maker
    4. An Exultation of Larks
2016
  • Americana: Songs of Stephen Foster
    Settings by Edwin Penhorwood for Soprano Solo and Wind Ensemble
    Commissioned by Christopher Newport U. Music School for European Tour
    1. Oh Susanna
    2. Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair
    3. Ring, Ring the Banjo
    4. Beautiful Dreamer
    5. The Camptown Races
2020
  • Four Shakespeare Songs
           I     Spring
          II    Winter
          III   Sigh No More, Ladies
          IV   It Was A Lover and His Lass

Sacred Songs

1965
  • Upon the Body of our Lord
    Naked and Bloody
    (student work)
1976
1978
  • The Gaunt and Solitary Man
    from The Passion According to St. Mark
  • Sitting in the Upper Room
    from The Passion According to St. Mark
  • That Wood. . .
    from The Passion According to St. Mark
  • Black Rocks. . .
    from The Passion According to St. Mark
  • Psalm 130
    for Soprano, Oboe or Flute, and Organ
  • Glory to God in the Highest
    for Soprano, Trumpet, and Organ
1980
  • Psalm 131
    for Female Voice, Male Voice, and Children’s Choir
1981
  • Psalm 47
    for Soprano and Organ
    original composition 1967
  • Psalm 28
    for Soprano, Trumpet, and Organ
  • All Creatures of Our God and King    
    for Voice, Trumpet, and Organ
  • Psalm 43
    for Soprano, Alto, and Organ
1988
  • Psalm 23
    original composition 1963
1995
  • The Greatest of These is Love
    Duet for High and Low Voice
  • Amazing Grace
    for High Voice
1999
  • Ah, Holy Jesus
    for High Voice
  • Christ The Lord is Risen
    for High Voice
2008
  • Psalm 98:  O Sing to the Lord a New Song
    for High Voice
2011
  • Amazing Grace
    for Low Voice
  • Psalm 42
    for Medium Voice