Instrumentation: Flute Trumpet in B flat Harp Bass (Vocal) Timpani	This work brings to life the drama of the martyring of the Biblical hero Jesus based on a composite of the accounts in the New Testament Gospels from which the so called "last seven words" are derived. The music expresses the emotional distress, and highlights the seeming momentary doubt of a fallen hero.
Instrumentation: Flute Oboe Clarinet in B flat Horn in F Bassoon Soprano	Musical ideas spawned from Sylvia Plath's evocative, but murky imagery. I see the music as merely an extension of the poem, the speaker's stream of conscious, both anticipating and echoing the narrative as its aural subtext. Between the warmth of the woodwinds and the poetic strains of the soprano, one can hear the desolate world from which Plath's voice still resonates.