Penelope (alto + string quartet; music theater arrangement)

(2007-2008) Duration: 53′.  Music Theater Monodrama.  Nine songs + 15′ incidental music.  Words by Ellen McLaughlin.

for alto and string quartet.

Commissioned by the J. Paul Getty Center for Ellen McLaughlin and Eclipse Quartet.
World Premiere: January 15, 2008 by Ellen McLaughlin and Eclipse Quartet at The Getty Villa, Malibu, CA.

1. I Have a House
2. This Is What You’re Like
3. Never
4. Home
5. The Hanged Man
6. Dead Friend
7. Calypso
8. Stranger Song
9. The Story, His Story