Music & Video
COMPOSITIONS
Five Situations
Solo guitar, January 2021
Under The Harvest Moon
Text by Carl Sandburg
A capella choir, April 2020
May Eternity Be
Choir and solo cello, August 2018
Unforeseen Destinations
Orchestra and guitar, December 2019
Awakening
Solo guitar, October 2018
Flight of a Great Blue Heron
Harmonica and guitar, November 2017
Allegretto, Elegy, and Passacaglia
Solo guitar, February 2012
A Fork in the Road
Solo guitar, September 2011
Descent to a Dream
Solo guitar, June 2008
Two Folksong Settings
Voice, two guitars, flute, October 2007
Beneath the Lowering Sky
Guitar Solo, August 2006
Time Is a River
SATB Youth Chorus, November 2005
When It’s Time
Voice, penny whistle, 2 guitars, string orchestra, 2005
Waterscapes
Two guitars, orchestra (revised), July 2005
A Backward Glance
Symphonic band and chorus April 2004
Outside Impressions
Piano solo, 2004
Mississippi Revisited
Guitar solo, August 2003
Until I Knew
SATB Chorus, 2003
Jesus the Very Thought of Thee
Hymn setting, SATB, two guitars, 2002
The Way Through Heaven’s Gate
Voice, two guitars, cello, 2000
The Spirit Will Testify
SATB Chorus, organ, two guitars, 2000
Six Variations on the “Water Is Wide”
Two guitars, violin, viola, cello, 1994
Fantasy on a Mormon Hymn Tune
Guitar solo (Mel Bay Publications)
4 Scenes from a New England Calendar
Guitar solo
December 26
Two guitars, cello
TRANSCRIPTIONS
& ARRANGEMENTS
May Eternity Be (setting of "Elegy" from A
Downland Suite by John Ireland)
SSAATTBB chorus and cello, text by Mark Small,
August 2019
Cast Away (Theme from the motion picture)
Solo guitar, December 2018
Blackbird and Prelude
Solo guitar, 2017
Three Sumner Songs
(Message in a Bottle, Fragile, Fields of Gold)
Two guitars, 2013
A Map of the World (Pat Metheny)
Two guitars, 2005
Danza Espanola No. 2 (E. Granados)
Two guitars, 2005
Two Spirituals (Anon.)
Two guitars, 2005
Letter From Home (Pat Metheny)
Four guitars (For LAGQ), 2004
El Noi de la Mare
Two guitars and string orchestra, 2000
Hallelujah Chorus (G.F. Handel)
Two guitars, 1995 (Mel Bay)
The Holberg Suite (Edvard Grieg)
Two guitars, (Mel Bay) 1995
Letter From Home (Pat Metheny)
Two guitars, violin, cello, 1994
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (J.S. Bach)
Two guitars, 1994
Sheep May Safely Graze (J.S. Bach)
Two guitars, 1993
Four Romantic Songs (A. Dvorak)
Two guitars, violin, 1988
HYMN TUNE SETTINGS
Each Life That Touches Ours for Good
Guitar and Violin, January 2019
I'm Trying to Be Like Jesus/I Love to See the Temple
Guitar and Violin, September 2018
Be Still My Soul
Solo guitar, May 2017
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Solo guitar, August 2014
Abide With Me (hymn setting)
Guitar solo, May 2005
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Two guitars, 2005
The Wintry Day Descending to its Close
Two guitars, violin 2000
Hills and Mountains Medley
Two guitars, 2000
There Is a Green Hill Far Away
Two guitars, 2000
Each Life that Touches Ours for Good
Two guitars and string orchestra, 2000
For the Beauty of the Earth
Two guitars, 2000
Love at Home
Two guitars, 2000
Where Can I Turn for Peace?
Two guitars, 2000
There Is a Green Hill Far Away
Two guitars, 2000
Each Life that Touches Ours for Good
Two guitars and string orchestra, 2000
For the Beauty of the Earth
Two guitars, 2000
Love at Home
Two guitars, 2000
Where Can I Turn for Peace?
Two guitars, 2000
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Two guitars, oboe, cello, 1996
A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief
Two guitars, oboe, cello, 1994
If You Could Hie to Kolob
Two guitars, 1993
Theme and Variations on “Press Forward Saints”
Two guitars, 1993
Love One Another
Solo guitar, 1993
Lord, I Would Follow Thee
Two guitars, violin, cello, 1993
Praise to the Man medley
Two guitars, 1993
CHRISTMAS CAROLS
O Tannenbaum
Solo guitar, September 2012
Gesu Bambino
Two guitars, violin, cello, bass, 2002
Joy to the World medley
Two guitars, 2002
A Virgin Unspotted
Two guitars, 2002
Sussex Carol
Two guitars, 1996 (Mel Bay)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Two guitars, 1996
Ding Dong Merrily on High
Two guitars, 1996
Mary’s Lullaby
Two guitars, 1996
Shepherd’s Left Their Flocks A-straying
Two guitars, 1996
In the Bleak Midwinter
Two guitars, oboe, violin, cello, 1996
Silent Night
Two guitars, 1996
January
The 2018 Winter issue of Classical Guitar magazine featured the sheet music for my piece “January.” It’s the first of four impressions for solo guitar from the suite Scenes from a New England Calendar. All four pieces were recorded for my 2011 album Scenes.
Towards a Fork in the Road
My family reached a milestone with the marriage of our youngest daughter. For the occasion, I made a slideshow with pictures of the path leading to this juncture and wrote a guitar piece to underscore it. Titled "Toward Fork in the Road," the piece later appeared on my 2021 album of the same name. Subsequently, I wrote four more pieces to go with it for a folio titled Five Situations, published by Les Productions d’Oz.
My Country Tis of Thee
The first time I heard Phillip Lester’s solo guitar arrangement of this song, which is usually sung as an anthem, I was overtaken by the warm and poignant feelings this version inspired. A friend helped me produce a video blending the music with images of American small-town and city life with various landscape shots. The organizers of a 10-year commemoration of 9/11 in my town of Foxboro, MA, saw the video. I was invited to play the piece during a ceremony unveiling a granite sculpture honoring the memory of Foxboro resident Michael McGinty who was among those lost at the World Trade Center.
Listen on Soundcloud (under marksmall6) and Spotify
Silent Night
Guitarists Scott Tennant and Bill Kenengiser, founding members of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, played vintage guitars in this video of my setting of “Silent Night” for Guitar Salon International. The sheet music for the arrangement is available with other Christmas duets in the folio, Winter’s Light, published by Les Productions D’Oz.