Susan Stoderl
Writer / Composer
Susan Stoderl
Susan
Songs / Song Cycles
The Ghost of Mary (2011) (Music and Poetry)
Six songs for soprano, violin, viola, cello and piano, inspired by various texts and theories about Mary Magdalene. (To be premiered in Fall, 2011)
Earth Walking, Soul Longing (2009) (Music and Poetry)
Six songs for medium voice and piano. (NYC Premiere in Fall 2011)
Prairie Girl: 1955-67 (2008) (Music and Poetry)
Seven songs for mezzo-soprano and piano
Songs From a Jade Garden (2003, revised 2004) (Music and Poetry)
Ten short songs for soprano, string trio, piano and narrator (2004); for soprano and piano (2004); for soprano, tenor, flute, violin, cello, piano, and masked dancer (2003)
A Glass of Wine with Sherlock (Incomplete) (2002) (Music and Poetry)
Eight songs for tenor, soprano and piano (incomplete)
- The Green House
From Songs From a Jade Garden: Ilya Speranza, soprano. Sung Yu visits a house of entertainment and is mesmerized by Meng Chu's skillful dancing.
- 1. Boundaries
From Prairie Girl: Circa 1955-67: Ann Marie Wilcox, mezzo-soprano. In the western Kansas county that that this song describes, weather, directions, and time delineate life on the prairie.
- 4. Playing Grown Up
In the fourth song from Prairie Girl: Circa 1955-67, a seven year old girl amuses herself while she minds the store for her ailing grandfather. It is a time of life where every minutes seems like a very slow hour.
- The Calling
From Earth Walking, Soul Longing: Gretchen Mundinger, soprano. The poem for this song was inspired on a damp walk to work on a beautiful autumn day. The leaves swirled through the street like the cloak of an earth goddess.
Susan Stoderl
Susan
