Ghost Voices: Songs from a Cemetery is a "multimedia cantata" written for eight voices, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, percussion, piano, violin, cello, double bass, and projections. The text comes from nearly twenty selections from Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River Anthology. For those unfamiliar with this American classic, Spoon River (published in 1915) is a collection of over two hundred dramatic monologues/verse epitaphs from various deceased citizens of the fictional community of Spoon River, Illinois. The collection contains several storylines that carry between various characters and includes dramatic, comic, and tragic tales told from each inhabitants' point of view.

Ghost Voices was conceived as a work that would enhance the dramatic content of the text. To that end, the songs are staged and performed by the eight vocalists wearing period costumes (c. 1880-1915) and stage make-up. A theatrical setting is created by the use of two to three screens on which photographs of cemeteries and nature appear with the images appearing at specific moments in the score.

The premiere of Ghost Voices: Songs from a Cemetery occurred on April 30, 2005 in the Lyceum Theatre on the Arizona State Universty main campus.

A second performance of Ghost Voices occurred on May 9, 2006 at the Center for Performing Arts at Paradise Valley Community College.

PHOTOS (from video) of the premiere of Ghost Voices: Songs from a Cemetery April 30, 2005.

VIDEO and of the premiere of Ghost Voices: Songs from a Cemetery April 30, 2005.

PHOTOS from the dress rehearsal of the 2nd performance of Ghost Voices: Songs from a Cemetery May 9, 2006.

AUDIO of the 2nd performance of Ghost Voices: Songs from a Cemetery May 9, 2006.